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Vakumuni vuku ni vanua (gathering the wisdom of the land): An Indigenous fieldwork research methodology in Fiji Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Maiono Jekope Ramala, Diane Ruwhiu
One of the persistent challenges for researchers engaging with Indigenous communities is ensuring they communicate with the right individuals to obtain the right information. In this article, I advocate for the use of Vakumuni vuku ni vanua (gathering wisdom of the land), incorporating the 3D veivosaki (meaningful conversation) and Butu vanua (transcendence walk). These methods present culturally appropriate
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Macaology: A construct of a socio‐psychological self‐essentialist view of the world Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Shiufai Wong, Cristina Osswald
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Spiritual and environmental well‐being: Factors supporting adaptation of Pacific peoples during pandemic times Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Regina Scheyvens, Apisalome Movono, Jessie Auckram, Leilani Faaiuaso
Most Western models of well‐being focus only on social, mental, financial and physical well‐being. Collecting data on how tourism‐dependent communities in the South Pacific had adapted to the dramatic impacts of the pandemic, we became aware of the significance of spiritual and environmental dimensions of well‐being. We also identified several Pacific well‐being models that incorporate these dimensions
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Pluriversal bodies: Researching care through embodied ethnography Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Kelly Dombroski
In this research note, I outline an approach to embodied experiences of care and caregiving in ethnographic scholarship on care. I describe how ethnographers of care and caregiving can use embodied methodologies, particularly through attending also to the cross‐cultural differences in embodied experiences. In this research note, I bring together care research and cross‐cultural embodied ethnography
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Who plans for women? Representation of power in planning for climate change adaptation in Bangladesh Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Debashish Sarker Dev, Elske van de Fliert, Karen McNamara
Gender considerations have been part of climate change adaptation planning in the Global South for the last two decades. Despite this, studies have reported a gap in understanding how organisations incorporate people's diverse experiences of climate risks into planning and implementing adaptation strategies, particularly for women disproportionately impacted by climate risks. Taking the case of Bangladesh
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A Pacific community resilience framework: Exploring a holistic perspective through a strengths‐based approach and systems thinking Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Anna Gero, Keren Winterford, Federico Davila
The impacts of climate change in the Pacific and worldwide have prompted researchers and practitioners to find ways to define, assess and support community resilience. This paper presents a community resilience framework to help meet this challenge. While traditional framings of resilience in scholarship are often based on deficit models that focus on vulnerability and gaps, this framework draws on
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A backlash against the high‐speed modernity of gastronomy tourism: An analysis of the evolution of Macanese cuisine Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Ke Song, Hokkun Wan, Qiaoran Jia
In structuration theory, Giddens emphasises the importance of social practices in shaping and reproducing social structures, believing that the constitution of agents and structures represents a duality and advocating that structure is both a medium and outcome of the reproduction of practices. The traditional culture and customs embodied in Macanese cuisine can be considered as a structured process
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Partial planned relocation and livelihoods: Learnings from Narikoso, Fiji Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Merewalesi Yee, Celia McMichael, Karen E. McNamara, Annah Piggott‐McKellar
Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are vulnerable to climate change impacts, including sea level rise, extreme weather events and other environmental changes. Planned relocation can be an adaptive response to climatic threats. In Fiji, six communities have already relocated. While there is growing interest in planned relocation, there are few empirical case studies from which to learn. Narikoso village
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The Omnibus Law on Job Creation and its potential implications for rural youth and future farming in Indonesia Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Anna Sanders, Josi Khatarina, Rifqi Assegaf, Tessa Toumbourou, Heni Kurniasih, Reni Suwarso
Indonesian rural youth face challenges accessing farmland and sustaining an agricultural livelihood while their labour is not necessarily absorbed by other sectors. In that context, the Omnibus Law on Job Creation (Law 11/2020) promises to liberalise trade and investment across multiple sectors, including agriculture and food security. Combining legal research and political economy approaches to youth
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Producing the post‐postmodern flâneur: An assemblage analysis of Macau's Cotai Strip Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Zhen Sun
Macau, an internationally renowned gambling city, has experienced rapid growth in casino space expansion and tourism since 2002 when the new Macau SAR government liberalised gambling. Despite the impact of COVID‐19 on the city's economy over the past three years, infrastructure construction and remodelling of casino resorts continue. This study focuses on the spatial production of casino resorts and
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Women and urban flooding vulnerability: A case study from Can Tho City in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Ly Quoc Dang
The main objectives of this research are to identify (i) how women in Can Tho City experience the impacts of flooding on their health, income, household and personal finances; and (ii) limitations to women's participation in flood-related planning activities. Qualitative data collection included a household survey, followed by field observation and in-depth interviews of the affected women and other
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Rural livelihoods and caterpillar fungus collection: Diverse economies of surplus for dignified labour Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Caihuan Duojie, Matthew Scobie
This study explores the appropriation and distribution of surplus in caterpillar fungus collection in Qinghai using a diverse economies of surplus approach. Ethnographic fieldwork included semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, oral histories and participant observations during collection. Findings suggest that one particular enterprise type, with more typically capitalist features has
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Sites of infrastructure, apprenticeship and possibilities for self: Locating Indonesia's missing women in representative politics Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Asima Yanty Siahaan, Tanya Jakimow, Yumasdaleni, Aida Fitria Harahap
Women are under-represented in Indonesian legislatures, and those women who are elected are disproportionately from ‘elite’ backgrounds. This research sought to understand the conditions for women to succeed in politics in conditions of patriarchy and clientelist politics. Research in North Sumatera, Indonesia, revealed that many women did not make the conscious decision not to enter politics, but
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Plasmatic thinking and tourism: Plasmatic modernity Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Chin Ee Ong
This paper builds on assemblage theory to propose a new theoretical understanding of modernity. While the conceptual framing is meant for modernity at large, this paper locates its conceptual discussion in the context of tourism in Macao and illustrates how plasmatic thinking, the new conceptual framework proposed, advances analysis of aspiration, exploitation and freedom of its tour guides. Plasmatic
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Relational care and ordinary repair in diverse craft economies Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Rishika Mukhopadhyay
The commentary attends to India's rapidly changing craft economy to notice how individual economic actors in the craft sector make complex and often contradictory ethico-political choices realising hopeful possibilities. Through the mode of care and repair, the commentary examines how the artisans operating within diverse economies negotiate with exploitative labour regimes and survive a dwindling
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What can the experiences of rural women in Solomon Islands teach us about innovation in aquatic food systems? Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Margaret Batalofo, Alice Aruhe'eta Pollard, Anouk Ride, Edlyn Hauona, Jan van der Ploeg, Matthew Isihanua, Matthew Roscher, Meshach Sukulu, Hampus Eriksson
In Solomon Islands, women's groups play an important role in promoting socially inclusive development and women's empowerment. In this paper, we summarise the experiences of a 5-year participatory action research partnership to enhance rural livelihood activities based on aquatic foods. The women's savings groups that participated in this research identified solar-powered freezers as an innovation
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Takeshima Bunwa and Tsushima's confirmation of Takeshima (Ulleungdo) as Korean territory in the seventeenth century Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Kyu-hyun Jo
Takeshima Bunwa, a collection of epistolary discussions on Ulleungdo between Suyama Shoemon, Hanshi of Tsushima, and Kishima Hyosuke, a fellow Hanshi from Tsushima, confirms that Tsushima was certain that Korea had more convincing historical sources proving that Ulleungdo is Korean territory and that Ulleungdo and Dokdo constitute a unitary territory. Dokdo is not subject to contention as Japan claims
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Agrotourism and fast urbanisation: The double pressure of development on peri-urban agriculture in Hôi An, a small city of central Vietnam Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Thi Thanh Hiên Pham, Hai Son Cao, Dominic Lapointe
Agrotourism in Vietnam has been identified as one of the strategies used to achieve green growth and countryside modernisation, and it is often included as part of the national and local agenda. In this paper, we examine agrotourism in a village in the periphery of Hội An city (an international tourism hub in central Vietnam) to question tourism's interaction with ongoing development processes. More
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Pacific Island children: The use of maps in helping better understand children's lives Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Claire Freeman, Anita Latai Niusulu, Christina Ergler, Michelle Schaaf, Tuiloma Susana Taua'a, Helen Tanielu
Children's voices have been little heard in the Pacific research. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 asserts the child's right to have a say on matters that affect them and for their views to be considered. There has been massive growth in technologically assisted participative research; however, we argue the value of hand drawn maps should not be underestimated in the rush
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Who are the future farmers? Media representations of youth in agriculture, food security and ‘modern’ farming in Indonesia Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Tessa D. Toumbourou, Wolfram H. Dressler, Anna Sanders, Ekawati Liu, Trent Brown, Ariane Utomo
In Indonesia, state and non-state actors frame youth attrition from agriculture as a food security concern and propose policy solutions focused on ‘modern’ farming techniques. Using a critical framing analysis of five national Indonesian news media sources from 2010 to 2020, we examine how government, development and private sector actors portray youth in agriculture, and the underlying assumptions
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Turf wars: The livelihood and mobility frictions of motorbike taxi drivers on Hanoi's streets Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Binh N. Nguyen, Sarah Turner
In Vietnam's capital city Hanoi, the growing popularity of application based (app-based) motorbike taxis has offered many inhabitants new opportunities to pursue a mobile livelihood with ride-hailing platforms. Nonetheless, as this influx of app-based drivers has hit the city's streets, specific livelihood and mobility frictions have emerged, notably with informal, ‘traditional’ motorbike taxi drivers
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Pacific approaches to fundraising in the digital age: COVID-19, resilience and community relational economic practices Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Lorena de la Torre Parra, Apisalome Movono, Regina Scheyvens, Sophie Auckram
The aim of this paper is to discuss how community relational economic practices in virtual spaces are effective in building resilience because they are borne of and sustained by familiar traditional Fijian values of collective work and social interdependence. The researchers adopted a pandemic-induced methodology, conducting online-based talanoa (fluid conversations between two or more people) with
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Infrastructure and politics: Why the Belt and Road Initiative proceeded differently in Malaysia and Indonesia Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Zhaohui Wang
The article seeks to understand the different types and sources of politicisation as well as the consequences for Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure projects. It is argued that while the personalised insulated type of foreign policymaking is conducive to intra-system politicisation, the institutionalised responsive type is associated with extra-system politicisation. While the former type is contingent
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Reframing well-being: Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand's first wave COVID-19 response Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Dean C. Stronge, Alison Greenaway, Robyn L. Kannemeyer, Chris Howard
Well-being is increasingly being promoted and used to describe social progress. However, tension exists between framings that focus on enhancing individual well-being (living well) and societal or collective framings of well-being (living well together). Well-being is central to Aotearoa New Zealand's COVID-19 response and recovery. The COVID-19 pandemic reopened debates about what kind of society
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The massifying consumption of embodied goods in an advanced capitalist state: Capital, economic anxieties and social networks Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Anson Au
Embodied goods like cosmetic surgery comprise a unique and growing consumer industry, most of all in the Asia-Pacific, yet the rationalisation processes motivating their purchase are less understood. Addressing this lacuna, this article builds upon open-ended surveys and semi-structured interviews of consumers in Seoul, South Korea to articulate a relational approach to examine the rationalisation
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From saving to survivance: Rethinking Indigenous Papuan women's vulnerabilities in Jayapura, Indonesia Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Jenny Munro, Yohana Baransano
Racism, sexism and gendered violence disadvantage Indigenous Papuan women, yet government responses often focus on individual interventions like ‘raising awareness’ or training. In this article, we build on efforts to challenge these narratives about women's vulnerabilities. We draw on life history interviews with older Papuan women in Jayapura to rethink vulnerabilities and everyday struggles in the
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Reconsidering North Korean defectors: Social and semantic network analyses of YouTube videos on North Korean defectors Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Sae Won Chung, Yongmin Kim
This study investigates the North Korean defector phenomenon by approaching YouTube as an internet forum for public discourse, using the novel analytic approaches of social network analysis, text mining and semantic analysis. The research produced three main findings. First, individual YouTube content creators are most influential in the video networks pertaining to the subject of North Korean defectors
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Who benefits from international tourism in small Pacific islands? Value capture in the hotel industry in Hawaii Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Tolga Ulusemre, Wendy Lam
There is a consensus among small Pacific islands that the extent to which they benefit from international tourism largely depends on how much of the value created by tourism remains in the local economy. This study examines how the value created in the hotel industry is distributed among the key stakeholders in a small Pacific island context. We used aggregated income statements of full-service and
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City building knowledge from neighbourhoods in Asia Pacific Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Rita Padawangi, K. C. Ho, Hae Young Yun, Paul Rabé
Neighbourhoods are places of social encounters on a daily basis, but they are getting insufficient attention from policy makers and urban studies in conceptualising the city. While the city is often the unit of analysis and boundaries of data collection, social constructions of the city are mostly from neighbourhoods. By shifting the analysis to the neighbourhood scale, we are moving scholarship and
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Who is a neighbourhood? Studying a thing that isn't a thing in Southeast Asia Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Erik Harms
There is no such thing as a neighbourhood. But neighbourhoods are everywhere. Neighbourhoods are regularly described as things, but we cannot touch them. We typically understand neighbourhoods as places, but we can neither see them nor find their edges. The more one stares at a neighbourhood, the more it seems impossible to see it. Nevertheless, there is something—an often intangible and indescribably
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Spatial capital, cultural consumption and expatriate neighbourhoods in Hanoi, Vietnam Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Hae Young Yun, Jeehun Kim, K. C. Ho
Cities of the Global South constitute a wide band in terms of their integration into the global economy. For cities like Hanoi, the sustained influx of foreign direct investments has propelled them into playing increasingly important roles as manufacturing centres. Along with this new role is the influx of expatriate managers who watch overseas manufacturing subsidiaries. Our paper focuses on Korean
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Older Chinese and Korean migrants' experiences of the first COVID-19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand: A qualitative study Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Anne Koh, Tessa Morgan, Janine Wiles, Lisa Williams, Jing Xu, Merryn Gott
Later-life migrants, as older people living away from their home nations, occupy multiply-precarious positions in relation to national COVID-19 pandemic responses. Concern has particularly centred on this group's increased risk of social and linguistic exclusion. We explore the perspectives of later-life older Chinese and Koreans living in New Zealand during the nation's COVID-19 lockdown of 2020.
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The kampung, the city and the nation: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika in the everyday urban life of Kampung Peneleh, Surabaya, Indonesia Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Adrian Perkasa, Rita Padawangi, Eka Nurul Farida
Interpreted as ‘unity in diversity’, Indonesia's national politicians appropriated the slogan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika from a fourteenth century poem to legitimise one nation-state for the diverse archipelago. As Indonesia becomes a rapidly urbanising country, the concepts of ‘unity’ and ‘diversity’ intertwine with changing landscapes and societies. With the growth of cities as centres of population and
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Women in community-involved tourism enterprises: Experiences in the Philippines Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Eylla Laire M. Gutierrez, Kazem Vafadari
The tourism industry has long been recognised for supporting women in achieving economic empowerment and social freedom through entrepreneurial and employment opportunities. Widely recognised as a women-dominated sector, tourism is deemed to be a facilitator of women's development following the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As the existing literature suggests, women's involvement in tourism
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A model of leisure involvement, residential satisfaction, and place attachment in passive older migrants Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Wenmin Jin, Hyejin Yoon, Seoki Lee
Although the influence of mobility on place attachment has received attention in the literature, this relationship varies between groups. Unlike those who move to enjoy their retirement, for example, older migrants arriving in Shenzhen come to the city ‘passively,’ drawn by the needs of their children. This paper advances understanding of the concept of place attachment by illustrating the relationships
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Climate change education in the South Pacific: Resilience for whom? Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Anuantaeka Takinana, Roger C. Baars
Climate change education (CCE) can be an important tool to increase local community resilience. In 2017, the Pacific Community ratified the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific (FRDP) aiming to equip local communities with skills needed to become more climate change resilient. In 2018, Fiji implemented the Climate Change Resilience Programme (CCRP) at the University of the South Pacific
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Silver craft and Buddhist temple in the shaping of neighbourhood communities in Wua-Lai, Chiang Mai, Thailand Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Pijika Pumketkao-Lecourt, Komson Teeraparbwong, Pranom Tansukanun
This paper explores neighbourhood-based projects such as “local project” (Magnaghi, 2005), the strategic scenarios that set out a process of mobilisation and promotion of local resources, planned and run by local people. It focuses on two residential communities in Wua-Lai neighbourhood, namely Chumchon Wat Muen-Sarn and Chumchon Wat Sri-Suphan. The analysis deals with three local projects: Wua-Lai
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The secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay, Myanmar: Dhamma-youns and wards Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Jayde Lin Roberts
This article examines the entangled secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay as dynamic, people-based and relational processes that are centred in dhamma-youns (dhamma halls) which work within and across administrative ward boundaries. Cities in Myanmar have not followed the trajectories of urbanisation documented in the global North and its socio-spatial relationships are inextricably
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Art of resistance: Art activism, experts, and housing security in Nang Loeng, Bangkok, Thailand Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Boonanan Natakun, Napong Tao Rugkhapan
The paper presents a case study of art activism in Nang Loeng, a historic neighbourhood in Bangkok, Thailand. Long recognised for its rich cultural heritage from food to architecture, Nang Loeng has established its name as a site of cultural tourism, drawing interest from tourists, artists, and professional experts. Like many neighbourhoods nearby, Nang Loeng today is being threatened by looming gentrification
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What drives university students to practice social distancing? Evidence from South Korea and Vietnam Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Hyeon Jo
As COVID-19 has caused unprecedented social change, governments are implementing several social measures to control transmission. Among them, social distancing is being enforced in almost all countries and is effective in preventing infection. Based on the importance of social distancing, this study identifies factors influencing the intention towards social distancing. The research model was developed
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Environmental justice and the politics of coal-fired thermal power in Vietnam's Mekong Delta Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Nga Dao
Coal-fired thermal power has recently become one of the most pressing issues in Vietnam's development agenda. The country's economic development, industrialization and modernization, and population increases have put increasing pressure on energy demands. The Vietnamese government sees coal-fired power as a way forward in ensuring energy security, which had led to the planning and construction of plants
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Is ASEAN ready to move to multilateral cross-border electricity trade? Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Thang Nam Do, Paul J. Burke
This paper reviews progress towards the establishment of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Power Grid (APG) and the key barriers to multilateral cross-border electricity trade in ASEAN. An analysis across political, technical, institutional, economic, environmental, social and time dimensions is employed. Using a policy sequencing framework, the paper concludes it remains premature
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Surviving well: From diverse economies to community economies in Asia‐Pacific Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Kelly Dombroski,Caihuan Duojie,Katharine McKinnon
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Silver linings around dark clouds: Tourism, Covid-19 and a return to traditional values, villages and the vanua Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Apisalome Movono, Regina Scheyvens, Sophie Auckram
The global pandemic has adversely affected tourism globally, particularly in small island states heavily dependent on tourism. The closure of borders to regular flights for over a year in places such as Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands and Vanuatu, where this research was undertaken, has resulted in massive job losses. Many tourism employees have left the once-bustling tourist hubs, returning to villages
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Sustainable neighbourhood gastronomy: Tokyo independent restaurants facing crises Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 James Farrer
Neighbourhood gastronomy, the agglomeration of restaurants and smaller eateries in residential urban areas, contributes to the lives of residents and visitors economically, culturally, and socially. Since winter 2020, neighbourhood gastronomy in Asian cities has been severely disrupted by COVID, compounded by many other long-term stressors. In urban Japan these stresses include gentrification, the
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Shared survival and cooperation in India and Australia Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Bhavya Chitranshi, Stephen Healy
Eka Nari Sanghathan (ENS), an Indigenous single women farmer's collective in Odisha, India and Norco Dairy in regional NSW, Australia are cooperatives undertaking collective action to ‘survive well’, securing agrarian livelihoods in the face of climate change. Striking differences in affluence and poverty separate these place-based cooperatives while other things connect them: an Earth unsettled by
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Transnational physical activity and sport engagement of new Asian migrants in Aotearoa/New Zealand Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Tao Liu, Liangni Sally Liu
Based upon a literature review, this paper first identifies and articulates the importance of studying physical activity and sport (PAS) engagement of new Asian migrants within a particular geographical location – New Zealand. A pilot study with a series of in-depth interviews highlights some challenges that New Zealand Regional Sports Organisations (RSOs) and new Asian migrants face in terms of PAS
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Locating the traditional economy in Port Vila, Vanuatu: Disaster relief and agrobiodiversity Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Luke Drake, Hannah Marianne Liunakwalau
Alternative economic indicators are becoming policy in Vanuatu, particularly focusing on what national policy calls traditional economy. Although this acknowledges livelihoods and customary land in rural areas, urban places receive less attention. This article advances an argument that cities are also home to traditional economies. We draw on concepts of diverse economies and translocality to examine
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Diverse values of surplus for a community economy of fish(eries) Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Emma L. Sharp, Ingrid Petersen, Georgia Mclellan, Alana Cavadino, Nicolas Lewis
This paper develops a diverse economies account of fish ‘waste’ that revalues it as ‘surplus’. We examine ‘Kai Ika’, a community marine conservation experiment in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa New Zealand. Kai Ika rescues fish heads, frames and offal that were previously ‘going to waste’ and redistributes them to fish eaters who would otherwise struggle to access these foods. It involves fishers
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Commoning the city for survival in urban informal settlements Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-02-20 S M Waliuzzaman, Ashraful Alam
There is a resurgent interest in the study of ‘urban commons’ in critical geography scholarship as a way to reimagine cities beyond the pervasive neoliberal framing. Inspired by this body of work, this paper explores the processes through which marginalised groups, despite their many socio-economic limitations, negotiate and transform their sparse urban resources into ‘commons’ to survive in cities
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Positioning kindness and care at the centre of health services: A case study of an informal health and development programme oriented to surviving well collectively Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Katharine McKinnon
The mainstream development agenda highlights how important access to health care is for poorer regions of the world. In the area of maternal health, this is expressed in a concern to drive down rates of maternal morbidity and improve access to maternal health care services. While important, the focus on metrics misses the way that relations of care are fundamental to good health. This paper takes an
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Living with flux in the Philippines: Negotiating collective well-being and disaster recovery Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Katherine Gibson, Ann Hill
Anthropogenic climate change poses huge challenges to humanity. The frequency and magnitude of extreme weather is increasing. As more attention turns to disaster preparedness and recovery, it is worth recognising that many communities have a long history of living with the flux of planetary dynamism. They are experienced in negotiating collective well-being with one another and with the earth. Other
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Making a living in the diverse economy of concrete: Commoning in a contested quarry Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Pryor Placino, Katherine Gibson
The rapid expansion of urban development in Asia over the last 50 years has seen a rise in demand for building materials. From large construction companies to squatter settlers seeking to improve their housing, concrete is the building material of choice. In the Philippines there is plentiful supply of the limestone and aggregate (sand and gravel) required for concrete production. Alongside the large
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Diverse more-than-human approaches to climate change adaptation in Thai Binh, Vietnam Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Huong Do Thi, Kelly Dombroski
Climate change adaptation is a key shared endeavour of our time. In Thai Binh Province of Vietnam, rice farmers have been adapting to environmental change for generations and have developed sophisticated strategies of paying attention to non-human entities. Such strategies stand in stark contrast to modernist, developmentalist climate change adaptation interventions prioritising mastery and control
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Indigenous enterprise on customary lands: Diverse economies of surplus Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Suliasi Vunibola, Hennah Steven, Matthew Scobie
This study examines indigenous Fijian and Papua New Guinean enterprises on customary land. It explores the duality of merging indigenous and Western principles of entrepreneurship and the ability to balance business and socio-cultural imperatives. A qualitative, ethnographic-case study approach is deployed, with talanoa/tok stori used to collect empirical materials. Two interrelated themes emerged
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‘We are happy to tell you the sisimol stories (small stories)’: Reframing what counts as conservation work in the Arnavon Islands, Solomon Islands Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2022-01-23 Kristina L. Fidali, Nicolette Larder
Funders and governments alike increasingly understand the importance of women's inclusion in environmental conservation and natural resource management across the Pacific region. Despite this recognition, the weight of evidence suggests that entrenched gender inequalities continue to create barriers for women's engagement in conservation management and related projects like those for climate change
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The domestic politics of climate change in the Pacific Islands Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Julien Barbara, Elise Howard, Kerryn Baker
Much scholarly attention has been paid to the issue of climate change in the Pacific Islands, in terms of its geopolitical implications, and through the lens of mitigation and adaptation policies and strategies. Comparatively little focus has been given to the domestic politics of climate change in the region: How a changing climate is affecting internal political dynamics. This article traces the
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The Belt and Road as method: Geopolitics, technopolitics and power through an infrastructure lens Asia Pacific Viewpoint (IF 1.8) Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Tim Oakes
Although infrastructures may be material manifestations of state territorial power, the political effects of infrastructures are seldom straightforward. And yet, many accounts of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) assume a relatively conventional approach to politics, and to political power. Geopolitical intentionality and top-down policy and strategic planning tend to be emphasised over project-level