Pacific Futures : Past and Present / Warwick Anderson, Miranda Johnson, Barbara Brookes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Warwick, editor.

Anderson, Warwick.

Ballantyne, Tony.

Ballard, Chris.

Brookes, Barbara, editor.

Brookes, Barbara.

Douglas, Bronwen.

Hanlon, David L.

Johnson, Miranda, editor.

Johnson, Miranda.

Jolly, Margaret.

Manganaro, Christine.

Matsuda, Matt K.

Steel, Frances.

Stevens, Michael J.

Te Punga Somerville, Alice.

Yu, Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific Area--History.

Pacific Area.

Pacific Area--Historiography.

Pacific Area--Forecasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 305 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that tell us about the distinctiveness or otherwise of this "sea of islands"? Foregrounding the work of leading and emerging scholars of Oceania, Pacific Futures brings together a diverse set of approaches to, and examples of, how futures are being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the past.Individual chapters engage the various and sometimes contested futures yearned for, unrealized, and even lost or forgotten, that are particular to the Pacific as a region, ocean, island network, destination, and home. Contributors recuperate the futures hoped for and dreamed up by a vast array of islanders and outlanders-from Indigenous federalists to Lutheran improvers to Cantonese small business owners-making these histories of the future visible. In so doing, the collection intervenes in debates about globalization in the Pacific-and how the region is acted on by outside forces-and postcolonial debates that emphasize the agency and resistance of Pacific peoples in the context of centuries of colonial endeavor. With a view to the effects of the "slow violence" of climate change, the volume also challenges scholars to think about the conditions of possibility for future-thinking at all in the midst of a global crisis that promises cataclysmic effects for the region.Pacific Futures highlights futures conceived in the context of a modernity coproduced by diverse Pacific peoples, taking resistance to categorization as a starting point rather than a conclusion. With its hospitable approach to thinking about history making and future thinking, one that is open to a wide range of methodological, epistemological, and political interests and commitments, the volume will encourage the writing of new histories of the Pacific and new ways of talking about history in this field, the region, and beyond.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Te Declension of History / Johnson, Miranda

Part One: Genealogies of the Future

1. Horizons and Rifts in Conversations about Climate Change in Oceania / Jolly, Margaret

2. Genetic Drift: Pacific Pasts and Futures / Matsuda, Matt

3. Inside Us the Unborn: Genealogies, Futures, Metaphors, and the Opposite of Zombies / Te Punga Somerville, Alice

4. A Different Historiography for "A Handful of Chickpeas Flung over the Sea": Approaching the Federated States of Micronesia's Deeper Past / Hanlon, David

Part Two: Transit Futures

5. "Time Is on Our Side": Shipping and the Coming of Flight in the Pacific / Steel, Frances

6. Imagined Futures in the Past: Empire, Place, Race, and Nation in the Mapping of Oceania / Douglas, Bronwen

Part Tree: Asian Pacifics

7. Imperial Futures and India's Pacifics: Space, Temporality, and the Textures of Empire / Ballantyne, Tony

8. Unbound Space: Migration, Aspiration, and the Making of Time in the Cantonese Pacific / Yu, Henry

Part Four: Weedy Historicities

9. "Return of the Native": Two Routes Back for a "Dying Race " / Brookes, Barbara

10. Education for the Future: University of Hawai'i Sociology, Assimilationist Historicity, and the Making of Settler Colonial Culture / Manganaro, Christine

11. "A Lasting Benefit for a New Race"? Rev. J. F. H. Wohlers and Racial Amalgamation in Southern New Zealand / Stevens, Michael J.

12. On the Beach in the Marquesas: Weedy Historicities and Prosthetic Futures / Anderson, Warwick

Afterword: Pacific Futurities / Ballard, Chris

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

0-8248-7744-6

0-8248-7742-X

OCLC:

1098213526