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Art/Story of the Niuklia Fri Pasifik: On Doing Creative Pacific Histories The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Talei Luscia Mangioni
The transgressive spirit, critical flair, and cultural power of Pacific grassroots movements are too often ignored or relegated to the footnotes within the discipline of Pacific history. Through a ...
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Geschichtlos No More: The Trans-imperiality of German Colonial Expertise The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Viktor M. Stoll
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘We will not Relax our Efforts’: The Anti-Nuclear Stance of Civil Society and Government in Post-Independence Fiji The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Dimity Hawkins
In the years immediately following independence, Fiji took advantage of its position as the first Pacific Island country in the United Nations to highlight the harms of French nuclear testing. Buil...
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Robert Philp and the Politics of Development The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Zach Wallis
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Transition to Self-government, 1970–1972; Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Push to Independence, 1972–1975 The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Stephanie Lawson
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Introduction: Resistance and Survival – The Nuclear Era in the Pacific The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Nic Maclellan
For many decades, historians, researchers, and participants have documented the history of the nuclear era in the Pacific Islands. They have highlighted the legacy of health and environmental impac...
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MANUSCRIPT XLIII: Petition to the United Nations Trusteeship Council from the Marshallese People, 20 April 1954 The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Nic Maclellan
Anti-nuclear protests in the Pacific Islands began in the 1950s. There were a series of petitions throughout the decade as Islanders living under colonial administration sought assistance from the ...
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The Gallows of Girmit (1886–1919) The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-12-24 Margaret Mishra
Little is known about capital punishment in Fiji in the context of indenture. This paper examines cases of condemned Indians who migrated as indentured labourers (girmitiyas). It compiles and analy...
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‘Our Pacific Through Native Eyes’: Māori Activism in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, 1980–5 The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Marco de Jong
The Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific movement (NFIP) developed a grassroots regionalism in opposition to nuclear colonialism in the Pacific. This article concerns Māori interactions with other ...
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Reframing Suffrage Narratives: Pacific Women, Political Voice, and Collective Empowerment The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Sonia Palmieri, Elise Howard, Kerryn Baker
Dominant narratives of women’s suffrage have been shaped in ways that marginalize Pacific women’s experiences. Such narratives have emphasized the struggles of Global North women to achieve individ...
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Eight Months in the Cook Islands The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Tim Jones
Tim Jones spent eight months working as a digital librarian and archivist at the University of the South Pacific (USP) Cook Islands Campus. He describes the work he did there on the USP’s archival ...
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On Two Different Personalities from Old Rapa Nui: Personal Effects of ‘ariki mau Nga‘ara (? – ca. 1859) and ‘Prophetess’ María Angata Veri Tahi (ca. 1853–1914) – Part II: Angata’s Bible The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Tomi S. Melka, Robert M. Schoch
In Part I of this article, we discussed an English caplock pistol that reportedly belonged to the Easter Island (Rapa Nui) King Nga‘ara (? – ca. 1859) and the birdmen motif found on the pistol grip...
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Polynesian Agency and the Establishment of the French Centre for Pacific Tests The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Renaud Meltz, Alexis Vrignon
Since the 1960s, the installation of the Centre for Pacific Tests (Centre d’expérimentation du Pacifique or CEP) in French Polynesia has given rise to important debates concerning the agency of the...
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Troubles and Puzzles: The 2022 General Elections in Papua New Guinea The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Terence Wood, Maholopa Laveil, Michael Kabuni
This paper focuses on the 2022 general elections in Papua New Guinea, covering both electoral quality and election outcomes. Overall, the 2022 elections were very troubled. In parts of the country,...
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The Constitution That Never Was: Revisiting Fiji’s 2012 Draft The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Jill Cottrell Ghai, Yash Pal Ghai
The authors take the view that the draft constitution prepared by the Fiji Constitution Commission in 2012, but rejected by the government in favour of the government-drafted 2013 document, deserve...
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‘Between Two Worlds’: The Origins, Operation, and Future of the 2013 Fiji Constitution The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Anthony J. Regan, Coel Kirkby, Romitesh Kant
This article analyses the origins, practice, and prospects of the 2013 Fiji Constitution, which delivers on aspects of Brij Lal’s hopes for a civilian government under a liberal democratic constitu...
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A Fish Named Tahiti: Myths and Power in Ancient Polynesia (Tahiti, Ra‘iātea, Hawai‘i, Aotearoa New Zealand) The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Vehia Wheeler
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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John Dunmore (1923–2023) The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Raylene Ramsay
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Indigenous Rights Challenge to Common and Equal Citizenship in the ‘New’ Fiji The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Robert Norton, Eta Varani
For most of its postcolonial history, Fiji’s government was under iTaukei (Indigenous Fijian) control, viewed by iTaukei as the guardian of their status and rights. However, iTaukei-headed governme...
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Fiji’s Foreign Relations, 2006–23 The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Stewart Firth
From the time he assumed control over Fiji after the 2006 coup, military commander and self-appointed prime minister Frank Bainimarama was determined to assert Fiji’s independent stance in foreign ...
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Queen Kaʻahumanu of Hawaiʻi: A Biography The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Kale Kanaeholo
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Paradox and Pity: What We Can Learn From Fiji’s Urban Squatter Settlements The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Geir Henning Presterudstuen
This article discusses what might be gained from placing informal urban settlements at the centre of analyses of contemporary Fiji. Holding around 20 percent of the total population and growing rap...
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A Political History of the Subject: Brij V. Lal on Leadership The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Jack Corbett
Brij V. Lal was the most prolific writer on post-colonial politics in Fiji. Many of these writings concerned political leaders and the nature of political leadership. Biographies of A.D. Patel and ...
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Editors’ Introduction: Brij V. Lal and the Contemporary Politics of Fiji The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Doug Munro, Jon Fraenkel
This special issue of the Journal of Pacific History brings together several scholars, who were close to Professor Brij Lal, to write on the contemporary politics of Fiji. Brij died on 25 December ...
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Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Victoria Stead
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Anatomy of Frank Bainimarama’s Defeat at the Fiji December 2022 Election The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Jon Fraenkel
Fiji’s 14 December 2022 election saw the defeat of 2006 coup leader turned civilian prime minister Frank Bainimarama’s FijiFirst Party, and victory for an opposition coalition led by Sitiveni Rabuk...
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Imperial Resurgence: How French Polynesia Was Chosen as the Site for the French Centre for Pacific Tests (CEP) The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Renaud Meltz, Alexis Vrignon, Sylvain Mary
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the question of how French Polynesia was selected as the site for the French Centre for Pacific Tests in the 1960s. We argue that the Centre’s construction constituted an imperial resurgence for French Polynesia, marking the encounter and reconfiguration of different and previously unfamiliar worldviews. The article elucidates the rationales behind the choice of French
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Beyond These Shores: Aotearoa and the World The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Ingjerd Hoëm
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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On Two Different Personalities from Old Rapa Nui: Personal Effects of ‘ariki mau Nga‘ara (? – ca. 1859) and ‘Prophetess’ María Angata Veri Tahi (ca. 1853–1914) – Part I: The Pistol of Nga‘ara The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Tomi S. Melka, Robert M. Schoch
ABSTRACT Two artefacts located in private collections are the focus of this study. A caplock pistol and a Holy Bible, both dating from the middle of the 19th century and originating from England, are examined in order to be coaxed to ‘speak’. They belonged to Nga‘ara and María Angata Veri Tahi respectively, who are among the most recognized Indigenous personalities of pre- and post-1864 Rapa Nui (Easter
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‘Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
While German Samoa has appeared to some historians as a colony that demonstrates the benevolence of liberal colonial government, this article argues that Germany’s administration of Samoa should no...
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Voyages: Stories of an Ocean People The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Max Quanchi
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Jenny Munro
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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Brij V. Lal (1952–2021) The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Clive Moore
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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Maisin Recollections of the Kokoda Campaign, 1942-3 The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-04-04 John Barker
The contributions of Papua New Guinean labourers in the brutal Kokoda Track campaign of 1942–3 have long been acknowledged, yet firsthand accounts are extremely rare. During fieldwork in Maisin vil...
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Nungon, Patrol Officers, and Missionaries: Differing Narratives about Two Key Events in the History of Nungon People of New Guinea The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Martin Soukup
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is an analysis of selected historical events that took place in Uruwa Valley among Nungon people. The events – relocation of a village and religious conflict – still affect the life of the community. The author has partially reconstructed the events using archival materials, especially patrol reports, and printed documents. The course of reconstructed events differs
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Making Law in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Origins of a Postcolonial Legal System The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Alex Golub
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Clive Moore
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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E Vaine Toa, E Rangatira: Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe (D.Litt), 1930–2022 The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Debi Futter-Puati
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 2, 2023)
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Wharenui Harikoa The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Pounamu Jade William Emery Aikman
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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The Beharell Patrol of 1938: The First Government Patrol Across the Land of Kubo People (Nomad District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea) The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Monica Minnegal, Peter D. Dwyer
ABSTRACT In 1938, John S. Beharell led the first colonial government patrol into the then ‘uncontrolled’ land of Kubo people east of the Strickland River. That patrol is not referred to in reports of subsequent patrols a decade and more later. Nor does it appear in published histories of the area. That is unfortunate, for Beharell encountered a social landscape that differed from the landscape documented
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In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Aletta Biersack
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Ian Frazer
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2023)
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The Ambiguous History of Matthew and Hunter Islands: Tracing the Roots of Vanuatu and French Claims The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Lili Song, Morsen Mosses, Geraldine Giraudeau
ABSTRACT Matthew and Hunter Islands (MHIs) are two small uninhabited islands located between Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Both Vanuatu and France claim sovereignty over the MHIs and vast maritime zones around them. This article examines the history of sovereignty claims to the MHIs. Although existing literature often refers to an annexation of the MHIs by France in 1929 and a 1976 transfer of the MHIs
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Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Barbara Andersen
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Charles J.T. Radclyffe
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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Corrections: An Update to ‘The Making of Tupaia’s Map’ The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Lars Eckstein, Anja Schwarz
ABSTRACT This article offers an update to research presented in a long essay, entitled ‘The Making of Tupaia’s Map’, first published in early 2019 in the Journal of Pacific History. Its starting point is a voyaging path from Rarotonga to Pukapuka in the northern Cook Islands depicted on Tupaia’s charts which we had missed in our earlier research. While making a number of adjustments and corrections
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The Persistence of Sung History-Making in Oceania The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Brian Diettrich
ABSTRACT This article explores the persistence of local, sung modes of history-making in Oceania. It examines the importance of song forms as temporal modes of history, and the implication of these practices for approaches to local histories. The article first explores song within a critical overview of past scholarship, examining work that focuses on sung histories and their temporal meaning. It then
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Avoiding Japanese Intervention in New Caledonia: June and July 1940 The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Alexander Lee
ABSTRACT In June and July 1940, Australia feared that a dispute over New Caledonia could spark open conflict between the British Empire and Japan. New Caledonia’s endowment of resources, particularly nickel, made it an important supplier of strategic metals to Japan and gave Tokyo a legitimate stake in the future of the archipelago. Canberra, in partnership with London, recognized the danger of Japan’s
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Are Sāmoa’s Political Institutions Democratic? A Critical Examination of the Fa‘amatai and the 2021 General Election The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Iati Iati
ABSTRACT The 2021 Sāmoa general election produced a constitutional crisis, attracting international attention to issues regarding the quality of its democracy. In her 2006 book, Tradition versus Democracy, Lawson provides an extensive examination of these and similar issues and argues that elites, identified as matai, manipulate traditional institutions so as to perpetuate representational practices
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Tanna Times: Islanders in the World The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-10-16 Jean Mitchell
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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Introduction: What Can We Learn from the 2021 Political Crisis About Long-run Stability and Democracy in Sāmoa? The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Jon Fraenkel, Iati Iati
ABSTRACT The April 2021 election triggered Sāmoa’s most severe constitutional crisis since independence, an unusual development for a country long known for stability. Extensive litigation occurred over a 2013 constitutional amendment which required that a minimum of 10 per cent of parliamentarians be women and over the powers of the head of state. The outgoing government refused to concede defeat
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MANUSCRIPT XLII: The Cry of Mata‘afa The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Peter Hempenstall
ABSTRACT The ‘Cry of Mata‘afa’ is part of a long tradition of Sāmoan protests to international powers to be allowed to control their own lands and political destiny. It comes in 1899 as the Sāmoan islands are being partitioned between Germany and the United States. But it was not the end of resistance by Sāmoans to colonialist pretensions under both Germans and New Zealand. Mata‘afa Iosefo pleads for
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Mangroves, Coconuts and Frangipani: The Story of Rabaul The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Helen Gardner
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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Introduction: The Cook Islands Christian Church Special Issue The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 57, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Zorian Stech
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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Constituencies in a Hybrid State: An Examination of the Shift from ‘Territorial’ to ‘Electoral’ Constituencies in Sāmoa The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-09-18 Anna Dziedzic
ABSTRACT In 2019, Sāmoa’s parliament amended the Constitution to redefine the constituencies of Sāmoa. At least some aspects of these amendments are unconstitutional and should be declared void. This article traces the nature of Sāmoa’s constituencies over time, from the arrangements made prior to independence to the changes implemented for the 2021 election. It shows how Sāmoa’s constituencies originally
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The Platform: The Radical Legacy of the Polynesian Panthers The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Brian T. Alofaituli
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 3, 2023)
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Military Labourers and Sexual Violence in the New Guinea Campaign of the Pacific War, 1942–5 The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Caroline Norma
ABSTRACT Australia recruited tens of thousands of local military labourers in the New Guinea Campaign (1942–5) of the Pacific War. This article suggests that widespread Australian military incorporation of local people in the war effort rendered Papuan and New Guinean women vulnerable to sexual abuse and exploitation by the Japanese military. These abuses were sometimes facilitated by men organized
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Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu | Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923 The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Halena Kapuni-Reynolds
Published in The Journal of Pacific History (Vol. 58, No. 2, 2023)
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Where Lies the State? Sāmoa's 2021 Election and the Defeat of the Human Rights Protection Party The Journal of Pacific History Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Jon Fraenkel
ABSTRACT In 2021, Sāmoa witnessed its first change of government since the 1980s. The April election result entailed a narrow defeat for the governing Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP). This triggered a major constitutional crisis and a succession of legal battles over the 10 per cent quota for women in parliament and over the powers of the head of state, who had attempted to cancel the election