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The character of sovereignty in its constitution, expression, and experience across Pacific Islands has come into renewed focus over recent years. Decades after the onset of the post‐war period of decolonization and independence, non‐self governing French territories in Oceania are seeing communities chart and navigate new relationships with sovereignty conceptions and practices across local, regional,...
Oceania includes sovereign states as well as overseas territories of metropolitan powers. In both cases, contemporary geopolitical borders are legacies of colonialism. As in many (de)colonised places, materialisations of spatially anchored social imaginaries and practices of self and otherness, play a role in the everyday politics of Oceania's communities and states. Notably, cultural intimacies (Herzfeld,...
This article questions the limits of reductive models of spatial orientation (e.g., land/sea or front/back dichotomies) given growing evidence of the manifold organization of space in culture and cognition. In a Pacific context, this work affirms the necessity of attending to the multiplicity of spatial models at play in the thoroughly contextually complex dynamics of even putatively straightforward...
This paper considers what role the discovery and linguistic differentiation of regional languages played in the representational construction of Polynesia, the study of the region’s languages over time, the languages themselves, and the political and social lives of islanders. Focusing on French Polynesia, it questions whether there has been a sentimental attachment to the issue of human origins that...
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