Members’ Publications

2014

Books

Douglas, Bronwen. 2014. Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania 1511-1850. Palgrave Macmillan.

Looser, Diane. 2014. Remaking Pacific Pasts: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania. University of Hawai’i Press.

Stewart, Christine. 2014. Name, Shame and Blame: Criminalising Consensual Sex in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: ANU Press.

Teaiwa, Katerina. 2014. Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Edited Books

Besnier, N and Alexeyeff, K. (eds.). 2014. Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay and Other Pacific Islanders. University of Hawaii Press.

PhD Theses

Close-Barry, Kirsty. 2014. ‘A Mission Divided: Race and Culture in Fiji’s Methodist Mission’. Deakin University.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Dick, T. 2014. ‘Vanuatu water music and the Mwerlap diaspora: music, migration, tradition and tourism’, AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 10(4): 392-407.

Douglas, Bronwen. 2014. Voyagers, Toponyms, and Local Presence in the Fifth Part of the World, 1500-1700, Journal of Historical Geography 45: 12-24.

Flexner, J. L. 2014. Historical Archaeology, Contact, and Colonialism in Oceania. Journal of Archaeological Research 22(1): 43-87.

George, N. 2014. “Lost in Translation: Human Rights, Gender Violence and Women’s Capabilities in Fiji”, in Aletta Biersack, Martha Macintyre and Margaret Jolly (eds), Gender Violence and Human Rights in the Western Pacific, ANU Press (accepted).

George, N. 2014. Hot Conflict/ Slow Violence: Women Peace and Security in the Pacific Islands. Australian Journal of International Affairs (A). Vol. 67, No.3 (in press).

George, N. 2014 “In Sickness and in Health: Evolving trends in Gay Rights Advocacy in Fiji.” In Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff (eds) Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders, University of Hawaii Press, pp 293 – 322.

Hermkens, A. 2014. The Materiality of Missionization in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea. In Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by H. Choi and M. Jolly. Canberra: ANU Press, pp. 349-380.

Hermkens, A. 2014. Book review of ‘Christian Politics’ by M. Tomlinson and D. McDougall (eds.). The Contemporary Pacific 26 (2): 576-579.

McAdam, Jane. 2014. ‘Historical Cross-Border Relocations in the Pacific: Lessons for Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change’, 49 Journal of Pacific History, 301–27.

Maclellan, Nic. 2014. The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2013, The Contemporary Pacific, 26(2): 460-475.

Morgain, Rachel. 2014. Living Water: Christian theologies and interethnic relations in Fiji. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 15(1): 65-84.

Stewart, Christine. 2014. ‘On the edge of understanding: Non-heteronormative sexuality in Papua New Guinea’, in Gender on the Edge Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders, ed. Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 323–46.

Stewart, Christine. 2014. ‘“Not a Misis”, in Australians in Papua New Guinea 1960–1975, ed. Ceridwen Spark, Seumas Spark and Christine Twomey. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, pp. 248–61.

Teaiwa, Katerina. 2014. ‘Re-framing Oceania: Lessons from Pacific Studies,’ in Hilary E. Kahn (ed.) Framing the Global: entry points for research, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Timmer, Jaap. 2014. Review of Keir Martin, 2013, The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots: Custom and Conflict in East New Britain. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 15(5): 482-484.

Timmer, Jaap. 2014. Review of Rupert Stasch, 2009, Society of Others: kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. The Journal of Pacific History 49(2): 242-243.

Timmer, Jaap. 2014. Review of Muridan Widjojo, 2013, Pemberontakan Nuku: Persekutuan Lintas Budaya di Maluku Papua Sekitar 1780-1810. Depok: Komunitas Bambu. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 170: 379-421

2013

Books

Hermkens, A. 2013. Engendering Objects: Dynamics of Barkcloth and Gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea. Leiden: Sidestone Press.

Powles, Guy. 2013. Political and Constitutional Reform Opens the Door: The Kingdom of Tonga’s Path to Democracy. 2nd ed. Suva, University of the South Pacific Press.

Edited Collections

Charlesworth, Hilary and Margaret Jolly (eds). 2013. Grounding Travelling Concepts: Dialogues with Sally Engle Merry about Gender and Justice, Special Issue of Intersections, 33.

Fisher, Daniel and Jaap Timmer (eds). 2013. Becoming Like the State. Special Issue of Oceania 83(3).

Reports

True, J, Niner, S, and Parashar and George, N. 2013. Women’s political participation in Asia-Pacific. Report for United Nations Department of Political Affairs. New York: Social Science Research Council Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Apis, B., Aranka, J., Asiota, B., Bafeo, M., Bekio, J., Bore, W., Curry, G.N., Hamago, M.R., Inu, S.M., Kiup, E., Koczberski, G., Lummani, J., Nailina, R., Natera, K., Peter, E., Pundu, J., Togonave, P. and Webb, M. 2013. The use of activity diaries for understanding the daily lives of farmers and their livelihood choices.  In G. Hickey (ed.), Socio-economic Agricultural Research in Papua New Guinea. ACIAR Proceedings 141, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, pp. 36-47.

Crick, Florence,  Johanna Wandel, Nic Maclellan and Katharine Vincent. 2013. “Climate change adaptation pathways: insights from case studies in South Africa, Canada and the Pacific Islands” in Jean Palutikof et al (eds): Climate Adaptation Futures, John Wiley & Sons. pp. 242-253.

Crick, Florence,  Johanna Wandel, Nic Maclellan and Katharine Vincent. 2013. “Climate change adaptation pathways: insights from case studies in South Africa, Canada and the Pacific Islands” in Jean Palutikof et al (eds): Climate Adaptation Futures, John Wiley & Sons. pp. 242-253.

Douglas, Bronwen. 2014. Religion. In David Armitage and Alison Bashford (eds) Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People, Palgrave Macmillan.

Flexner, J. L. 2013. Mission archaeology in Vanuatu: Preliminary findings, problems, and prospects. Australasian Historical Archaeology 31: 14-24.

George, N. 2013. Beyond Cultural Constraint: Gender, Security and Participation in the Pacific Islands. In S. Davies et al (eds.) Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security: Aligning the Protection Agendas, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 155-180.

George, N. 2013. Gender in the Pacific Islands in N. Georgiou and C. Hawkesly (eds). The Globalization of World Politics: Case Studies from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific, Oxford University Press, Australia. pp. 59-62.

Hermkens, A . 2013. Like Moses who led his people to the Promised Land: Nation- and State building in Bougainville. In D. Fischer and J. Timmer (eds) Becoming like the State. Special Issue of Oceania 38(3): 192-207.

Hermkens, A. 2013. Fabrics of Life: Barkcloth from Lake Sentani and Collingwood Bay. In P. Mesenhöller und O. Lueb (eds) Made in Oceania Tapa – Kunst und Lebenswelten. Cologne/Koln: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, pp.130-143.

Hermkens, A. 2013. Unfolding the cloth. A History of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay objects. In L. Bolton, N. Thomas, E. Bonshek, J. Adams and B. Burt. (eds) Melanesia: Art and Encounter,  London: British Museum Press, pp.160-65.

Hermkens, A. 2013. The Power of Mary in Papua New Guinea. In Hilary Callan, Brian Street and Simon Underdown (eds) Introductory Readings in Anthropology, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, pp. 287-294.

Herr, Richard A. 2013. The Frontiers of Pacific Islands Regionalism: Charting the Boundaries of Identity, Asia Pacific World 4(1): 36–55.

Herr, Richard A. 2013. The security outlook for Melanesia, United Service, 64 (2): 9-13.

Herr, Richard A. 2013. “A Pacific Islands’ View of the Pivot to Asia: Can Washington Develop an Effective Regional Strategy?” In Ming-Hsien Wong (ed), Managing Regional Security Agenda, Taipei: Tamkang University Press, pp. 1-27.

Koczberski, G., Curry, G.N., Rogers, D., Germis, E., & Koia. M. 2013. Developing land use agreements in commodity cash crop production that meet the needs of landowners and smallholders.  In G. Hickey (ed.) Socio-economic Agricultural Research in Papua New Guinea. ACIAR Proceedings 141, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, pp.94-100.

Jolly, Margaret. 2013.  Epilogue. Agreeing to Disagree about Kago. In Marc Tabani and Marcellin Abong (eds) Kago, Kastom and Kalja: Old Theories and New Realities in the Study of Melanesian Movements, pp. 187-212.

Jolly, Margaret. 2013.   Intersections of Gender and Law in Asia and the Pacific with Hilary Charlesworth. In Hilary Charlesworth and Margaret Jolly (eds) Grounding Travelling Concepts: Dialogues with Sally Engle Merry about Gender and Justice, Special Issue of Intersections, 33.

Maclellan, Nic. 2013. The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2012. The Contemporary Pacific, 25(2): 352-368.

Morgain, Rachel. 2013. Ethnographic Visions of Hope and Global Change. Review essay of ‘Henrietta Moore, Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions, Cambridge: Polity (2011)’. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 24(1): 115-120.

Morgain, Rachel. 2013. Review of My God, My Land: Interwoven Pathways of Christianity in Fiji by Jacqueline Ryle. In The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 14(3): 280-282.

Steel, Frances. 2013. Lines Across the Sea: Trans-Pacific passenger shipping in the age of steam. In Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie (eds) The Routledge History of Western Empires, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 315-29.

Steel, Frances. 2013. An Ocean of Leisure: Early cruise tours of the Pacific in an age of empire, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 14(2).

Steel, Frances. 2013. ‘Cruising New Zealand’s West Coast Sounds: Fiord tourism in the Tasman World, c.1870–1910,’ Australian Historical Studies, 44(3), 361-81.

Teaiwa, Katerina. 2013. Postcolonial Cultural Identities in the Pacific. In Charles Hawksley and Nicole Georgeou (eds) The Globalization of World Politicscase studies from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific, Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Timmer, Jaap. 2013. The Sovereign and the Banyan. Review article of ‘Danilyn Rutherford, 2012, Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua,’ and ‘Eben Kirksey, 2012, Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power.’ Journal of Pacific History 48(3): 330-336.

Timmer, Jaap. 2013. The Threefold Logic of Papua-Melanesia: Constitution-writing in the Margins of the Indonesian Nation-State. Oceania 83(3): 158-174.

2012

Books

George, Nicole. 2012. Situating Women: Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji, ANU Press.

Jolly, Margaret and Christine Stewart with Carolyn Brewer (eds). 2012. Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea. ANU E-Press, Canberra.

Lepani, Katherine. 2012. Islands of Love, Islands of Risk: Culture and HIV in the Trobriands. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.

Reports

Teaiwa, Katerina. 2012. Implementing, Monitoring and Evaluating Cultural Policies: A Pacific Toolkit. Suva: European Union and Secretariat of the Pacific.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Cramb, R. and Curry, G.N. 2012.  Oil palm and rural livelihoods in the Asia-Pacific region: An overview. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 53(3): 223-239.

Curry, G.N., Lummani, J., Koczberski, G., Ryan, S. and Bue, V. 2012.  Earning a living in PNG: from subsistence to a cash economy. In Robertson, M. (ed.) Schooling for Sustainable Development: A focus on Australia, New Zealand and the Oceanic Region, Springer, pp.159-184.

Curry, G.N. and Koczberski G. 2012.  Relational Economies, Social Embeddedness and Valuing Labour in Agrarian Change: an Example from the Developing World. Geographical Research 50(4): 377-392.

Curry, G.N., Koczberski, G. & Connell, J. 2012. Introduction: enacting modernity in the Pacific?  Australian Geographer 43(2), 115-125.

Flexner, J. L. 2012. An Institution that was a Village: Archaeology and Social Life in the Hansen’s Disease Settlement at Kalawao, Moloka‘i, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16(1): 135-163.

Hermkens, A . 2012. Light Intervention or Redemption? Critical Review Article for The Australian Journal of Anthropology 23(2): 248-253.

Hermkens, A. 2012. Journeys of Resistance: Marian Pilgrimages during the Bougainville conflict. In Nelia Hyndman-Rizk (ed.) Pilgrimage in the age of globalisation: constructions of the sacred and secular in late modernity. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 58-78.

Hermkens, A. 2012. Circulating Matters of Belief: Engendering Marian Movements during the Bougainville crisis. In L. Manderson, W. Smith and M. Tomlinson (eds) Flows of Faith: Religious reach and community in Asia and the Pacific. Dordrecht and New York: Springer Publishing Company, pp. 161-181.

Hermkens, A. 2012. Becoming like Mary: Coping with domestic violence in urban PNG. In M. Jolly and C. Stewart with C. Brewer (eds) Engendering violence in Papua New Guinea, ANU Press, pp. 137-161.

Hermkens, A . and J. Timmer 2012. Peacebuilding without Culture. Review Essay for The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 13(5): 484-490.

Jolly, Margaret. 2012. Prologue: the Place of Papua New Guinea in Contours of Gender Violence. In Margaret Jolly and Christine Stewart with Carolyn Brewer (eds) Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-10.

Jolly, Margaret. 2012. Introduction: Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea: Persons, Power and Perilous Transformations. In Margaret Jolly and Christine Stewart with Carolyn Brewer (eds) Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea. ANU E-Press, pp. 11-44.

Jolly, Margaret. 2012. Material and Immaterial Relations: Gender, Rank and Christianity in Vanuatu. In Laurent Dousset and Serge Tcherkézoff (eds) The Scope of Anthropology. Oxford: Berghahn,  pp. 110-154.