Belonging in Oceania : : Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications / / ed. by Elfriede Hermann, Wolfgang Kempf, Toon van Meijl.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Brandt, Agnes,; Dürr, Eveline,; Fer, Yannick,; Garond, Lise,; Hermann, Elfriede,; Kempf, Wolfgang,; Malogne-Fer, Gwendoline,; Meijl, Toon van,; Pascht, Arno,; Rollason, Will,; Thode-Arora, Hilke,
• HerausgeberIn: Hermann, Elfriede,; Kempf, Wolfgang,; Meijl, Toon van,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to “belong” in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings—and, with these, the relevant forms of mobility, place-making and identifications—are being recontextualized and modified by emerging discourses of climate change and sea-level rise.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Movement, Place-making and Cultural Identification. Multiplicities of Belonging -- 1 Culture as Experience Constructing Identities through Transpacific Encounters -- 2 ‘Forty-plus Different Tribes’ Displacement, Place-making and Aboriginal Tribal Names on Palm Island, Australia -- 3 Coconuts and the Landscape of Underdevelopment on Panapompom, Papua New Guinea -- 4 Invisible Villages in the City Niuean Constructions of Place and Identity in Auckland -- 5 Migration and Identity Cook Islanders’ Relation to Land -- 6 Protestantism among Pacific Peoples in New Zealand Mobility, Cultural Identifications and Generational Shifts -- 7 Identity and Belonging in Cross-cultural Friendship Māori and Pākehā Experiences -- Epilogue Uncertain Futures of Belonging Consequences of Climate Change and Sea-level Rise in Oceania -- Notes on Contributors -- Index