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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Warwick,; Ballantyne, Tony,; Ballard, Chris,; Brookes, Barbara,; Douglas, Bronwen,; Hanlon, David,; Johnson, Miranda,; Jolly, Margaret,; Manganaro, Christine,; Matsuda, Matt,; Steel, Frances,; Stevens, Michael J.,; Te Punga Somerville, Alice,; Yu, Henry,
• HerausgeberIn: Anderson, Warwick,; Brookes, Barbara,; Johnson, Miranda,
• TeilnehmendeR: Anderson, Warwick.; Ballantyne, Tony.; Ballard, Chris.; Brookes, Barbara.; Douglas, Bronwen.; Hanlon, David L.; Johnson, Miranda.; Jolly, Margaret.; Manganaro, Christine.; Matsuda, Matt K.; Steel, Frances.; Stevens, Michael J.; Te Punga Somerville, Alice.; Yu, Henry.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 4 b&w illustrations, 10 maps

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, Paci...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Te Declension of History
• Part One: Genealogies of the Future
• 1. Horizons and Rifts in Conversations about Climate Change in Oceania
• 2. Genetic Drift: Pacific Pasts and Futures
• 3. Inside Us the Unborn: Genealogies, Futures, Metaphors, and the Opposite of Zombies
• 4. A Different Historiography for "A Handful of Chickpeas Flung over the Sea": Approaching the Federated States of Micronesia's Deeper Past
• Part Two: Transit Futures
• 5. "Time Is on Our Side": Shipping and the Coming of Flight in the Pacific
• 6. Imagined Futures in the Past: Empire, Place, Race, and Nation in the Mapping of Oceania
• Part Tree: Asian Pacifics
• 7. Imperial Futures and India's Pacifics: Space, Temporality, and the Textures of Empire
• 8. Unbound Space: Migration, Aspiration, and the Making of Time in the Cantonese Pacific
• Part Four: Weedy Historicities
• 9. "Return of the Native": Two Routes Back for a "Dying Race "
• 10. Education for the Future: University of Hawai'i Sociology, Assimilationist Historicity, and the Making of Settler Colonial Culture
• 11. "A Lasting Benefit for a New Race"? Rev. J. F. H. Wohlers and Racial Amalgamation in Southern New Zealand
• 12. On the Beach in the Marquesas: Weedy Historicities and Prosthetic Futures
• Afterword: Pacific Futurities
• Contributors
• Index