The World from Oceania

Salesa, Damon

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“…2010), which fails in any of the hundreds of maps contained to either centre the Pacific or even include the whole Pacific Ocean. 26 Through this example, Salesa points out that most world histories marginalise and minimise Oceania, stating that these "representations are both powerfully silent and uninterested in Oceania." 27 The recognition of historical silences is not new, but silences still exist and have great impact not just on the historical narratives but also on the peoples and stories they are about.…”

Section: Centring the Stories Of Pacific Peoplesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, Salesa points out that the practice of history in the Pacific is distinctive, including the way we teach, write, research, and engage communally. 34 Not only are our concepts of time unique and diverse, but the values that guide Pacific peoples based on our ideas of community and relationships make the way we think about, practice, and conceive of history different. This uniqueness marks Pacific ways of telling and practicing history as distinct from traditional Western history, and the distinctiveness and potential of this going forward needs to be recognised by those who write and teach about the history of the Pacific.…”

Section: Pacific Ways Of Telling Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa expresses this same sentiment when he states that "most Pacific scholars (or African and Native American scholars for that matter) thought such notions had been put to bed, but they seem to retain currency in some realms." 9 This was further evidenced through two personal experiences I have had in the previous few years: first, the experience of being at an international conference on Aotearoa and the Pacific where Indigenous peoples of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa were a considerable minority; and second, through a reviewer comment I received after arguing that Pacific voices needed to be centred when analysing political processes of decolonisation in the Pacific that questioned whether "'Pacific voices' had really been 'ignored' in the literature?" 10 My response to this was an unequivocal yes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Guardians” of Signatures? Future Directions in Pacific History from a Pacific Early Career Academic in Aotearoa

Leenen-Young¹

2021

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As a Pacific early career academic sitting between history and Pacific studies, I see unresolved tension concerning the lack of prioritisation of Pacific voices in Pacific history. In this article I explore how Pacific voices are included in the writing and teaching of Pacific history to establish that this is a continuing and unresolved issue. To do this, I survey articles in the Journal of Pacific History between 2015 and 2020 to trace the inclusion and prevalence of Pacific voices through authorship and prioritisation of historical evidence, alongside analysis of the teaching of Pacific history in universities in Aotearoa.

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Section: Centring the Stories Of Pacific Peoplesmentioning

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Section: Pacific Ways Of Telling Historymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“Guardians” of Signatures? Future Directions in Pacific History from a Pacific Early Career Academic in Aotearoa

Leenen-Young¹

2021

JNZS

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“…In their reply to this piece of criticism, Armitage and Bashford argued that the thalassological and global turn in Pacific studies is here to stay (Armitage and Bashford 2015: 239). Other authors, including Katrina Gulliver and Damon Salesa, paved the way for treating the history of the Pacific as a global history in its own right (Gulliver 2011;Salesa 2012). Matsuda shifted his notion of the Pacific over time from a more bottom-up perspective of the Pacific Islands (Matsuda 2006) to 'Pacific Worlds' where, in the manner of 'trans-localism' (Matsuda 2012: 5, original emphasis), multiple sites interconnect through history and ocean cultures.…”

Section: Writing Pacific Histories Into a Global Space: A New Thalass...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Routledge Handbook of transregional studies

Melber

2022

The Round Table

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The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies brings together the various fields within which transregional phenomena are scientifically observed and analysed. This handbook presents the theoretical and methodological potential of such studies for the advancement of the conceptualization of global and area-bound developments.Following three decades of intense debate about globalization and transnationalism, it has become clear that border-crossing connections and interactions between societies are highly important, yet not all extend beyond the borders of nation-states or are of truly world-wide reach. The product of extensive international and interdisciplinary cooperation, this handbook is divided into ten sections that introduce the wide variety of topics within transregional studies, including Colonialism and Post-Colonial Studies, Spatial Formats, International Organizations, Religions and Religious Movements, and Transregional Studies and Narratives of Globalization. Recognizing that transregional studies asks about the space-making and space-formatting character of connections as well as the empirical status of such connections under the global condition, the volume reaches beyond the typical confines of area and regional studies to consider how areas are transcended and transformed more widely.Combining case studies with both theoretical and methodological considerations, The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies provides the first overview of the currently flourishing field of transregional studies and is the ideal volume for students and scholars of this diverse subject and its related fields.

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“…2 A few studies seek to build on both contemporary theories of (digital) photography and social media as well as Mãori and Aboriginal worldviews: Haidy Geismar (2015) and Christopher Morton (2015) for example argue for an understanding of digital images as forging a powerful experience of co-presence within traditional social networks. However, as historians such as Samoan New Zealander, Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa (2012;Tuhiwai Smith 2012) have pointed out, indigenous ways of knowing continue to be excluded from imperialist historiographies. This is a refusal to acknowledge that European thought may be renewed from the margins -diverse as these are too (Chakrabarty 2000).…”

Section: Indigenous People and Photographymentioning

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Indigenous Uses of Photographic Digital Heritage in Postcolonizing Australia

Lydon

2021

Photography and Culture

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The process of "postcolonizing" continues in the former settler colony of Australia, entailing intense struggles over national identity and culture. Digital heritage plays a key role in these conflicts, in the form of historical and newer archives that have become increasingly important within Indigenous advocacy for recognition. Constructed from more traditional museum, library and private collections, these have become digital assets that now circulate in radically different ways -for example, as proof of identities, and links to Country. Since the late 1990s, as a result of postcolonizing advocacy by Indigenous people and cultural institutions in alliance with rapidly developing digital technologies, a profound shift in management practices has facilitated the assertion of control by First Nations people. These are exemplified by the Aṟa Irititja project, and its replicants, such as the Storylines project at the State Library of Western Australia. Digital heritage and digitized historical photographs in particular are now considered to be key resources for building Aboriginal history and identity, challenging oppressive state narratives and strengthening communities. Despite concerns regarding loss of culture caused by globalization and continuing inequalities, Aboriginal interests have drawn upon this expanded photographic digital heritage resource, to advance their rights through new temporal practices of production, circulation, and consumption.

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The World from Oceania

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

“Guardians” of Signatures? Future Directions in Pacific History from a Pacific Early Career Academic in Aotearoa

“Guardians” of Signatures? Future Directions in Pacific History from a Pacific Early Career Academic in Aotearoa

The Routledge Handbook of transregional studies

Indigenous Uses of Photographic Digital Heritage in Postcolonizing Australia

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