‘We’re Not Indigenous. We’re Just, We’re Us’: Pacific Perspectives on Taiwan’s Austronesian Diplomacy

Marinaccio, Jessica

doi:10.22459/ca.2021.11

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“…I use Indigenous to refer to peoples with recent Indigenous ancestry and connection to land and acknowledge that Papua New Guineans, as with some other Pacific peoples, may not self-identify as Indigenous (Marrinacio, 2021). I use modern and modernity in a way that challenges the Eurocentrism embedded in the terms and recognises that “different communities, countries, and regions produce different modernisms at different times” (Hayward & Long, 2020, p. 9).…”

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Melanesian reimagining: a digital tok stori of Papua New Guinean identity on Instagram

Matthews

2024

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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Expanding social media research on the Pacific Digital Revolution, this article explores the significance of Papua New Guineans’ digital and visual articulations of Papua New Guinean identity through Instagram by analysing two public Papua New Guinean Instagram accounts, @archiveples and @taniabphoto. The research triangulates between Pacific, Indigenous, and Cultural studies, drawing on articulation theory and a multimodal thematic and visual cultural studies analysis. A Melanesian tok stori (storytelling) framework reveals how social media interactions fit within a culturally relevant Melanesian concept of storytelling and illustrates how social media has become a contemporary site for Pacific digital storytelling. This digital tok stori is a decolonsing digital wave of the Pacific artistic renaissance and reimagining emerging in 1970s post-independence art and literature. This research demonstrates how Papua New Guineans are subversively harnessing the tools and affordances of social media to counter reductive colonial narratives and mass media representations of Papua New Guineans.

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Melanesian reimagining: a digital tok stori of Papua New Guinean identity on Instagram

Matthews

2024

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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Indigenous heritage in diplomacy: repositioning Taiwan in the Austronesian network and its cultural implications

Huang

2021

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PurposeThis paper illustrates how Taiwan has tried to mobilize its prehistory Austronesian linguistic heritage and indigenous cultural memories to reposition itself in the Asia-Pacific. It examines how the attempt has gradually evolved into cross-border exchange and partnership based on the interconnectivity across the Pacific on different levels.Design/methodology/approachThe research is based on policy review of the Taiwan government's growing focus on indigenous culture in strategizing diplomacy and cultural policy from 2000 through 2021 and the researcher's participant observation in expert cultural heritage meetings (2018–2021). It is also complemented by semi-structured interviews with both selected state actors and civil actors.FindingsThe past connection among indigenous communities in Taiwan and the Austronesian peoples contributes to building up new cultural circuits across-borders based upon shared indigenous heritage and demonstrates the extraterritorial role of heritage, which can be the potential base for developing diplomacy.Research limitations/implicationsThe research is limited in not directly engaging with actors in the Pacific given limited time, budget and mobility under the coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic. The author would like to follow on that in her future research.Originality/valueThe paper sheds light on the uneasy relationship between indigenous heritage making and nation building and its cultural implications. This study demonstrates that the state framework of heritage is not necessarily appropriate to deal with these complicated historical matters, especially when the notion of heritage per se is not decolonised in a settler state.

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‘We’re Not Indigenous. We’re Just, We’re Us’: Pacific Perspectives on Taiwan’s Austronesian Diplomacy

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

Melanesian reimagining: a digital tok stori of Papua New Guinean identity on Instagram

Melanesian reimagining: a digital tok stori of Papua New Guinean identity on Instagram

Indigenous heritage in diplomacy: repositioning Taiwan in the Austronesian network and its cultural implications

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