Here are a few resources. Have a look at the Country & Regional Information tab for some more tips or ask us.
Cook Islands
Fiji
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Lending copies in the Macmillan Brown Library:
Library-use only copy in the Macmillan Brown Library:
Tonga
Lending copies in the Macmillan Brown Library:
Available online:
West Papua
Web resources:
Books:
Resources on the web:
Apology
There's lots more online and in the library- ask us if you need information on any particular aspect.
Titifanue, J., Kant, R., & Finau, G. (2020). A crucible for bottom-up regionalism?: The digital renaissance: West Papuan media suppression and social media in the Pacific. Pacific Journalism Review, 26(1), 140–147.https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v26i1.1079
This is a thesis so it’s a bit long but you can just go to the sections that interest you (or read the following article).
Historic
Online/Film
Current Labour Conditions
Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme (in horticulture and viticulture industries)
Google John Vea (artist and UC academic) for his work on Pasifika workers in Aotearoa.
Fry, G. (2019). Framing the Islands: Power and diplomatic agency in Pacific regionalism. ANU Press.
Fry, G., & Tarte, S. (2015). The new Pacific diplomacy. ANU Press.
Lawson, S. (2024) Regional politics in Oceania: From colonialism and Cold War to the Pacific century. Cambridge University Press.
Levine, S. (2016). Pacific ways: Government and politics in the Pacific Islands. Victoria University Press. See: Conclusion "Political institutions in the Pacific Islands".
Online and Macmillan Brown Library Pacific Collection JQ 5995 .A58 .P117 2016
Hassall, G. (2021). Government and public policy in the Pacific Islands. Emerald Publishing.
Online and Macmillan Brown Library Pacific Collection JQ 5995 .H353 2921
Zhang, D., & Diamana, W. (2021). Pacific Regionalism: Opportunities and Challenges. (In brief 2021/33). Australian National University. Department of Public Affairs. https://doi.org/10.25911/XCYT-0083
Zhang, D., & Lawson, S. (2017). China in Pacific Regional Politics. Round Table, 106(2), 197–206. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2017.1296705
For more resources see the PACS211 subject guide, the Politics and Governance subject guide page and the Country & Regional Information page.
Two useful recent books are:
Pacific Arts Aotearoa: The Powerful and Dynamic Legacy of Pacific Arts in Aotearoa As Told by the Artists Themselves.
Declaration: A Pacific feminist agenda.
For more information see the Art & Material Culture and Performing Arts & Theatre subject pages.
Check out the resources under Entrepreneurship and Case Studies on the Pacific Business Journal Articles subject page.
Also try searching Multisearch using the keywords pacific "indigenous knowledge" NOT asia-pacific
Leenen-Young, M. (2021). "Guardians" of signatures?: Future directions in Pacific history from a Pacific early career academic in Aotearoa. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 33, 36-54. https://doi.org/10.26686/JNZS.INS33.7381
Teaiwa, T. K. (Ed.). (2021). Sweat and salt water: Selected works. Victoria University of Wellington Press. Macmillan Brown Library DU17 .T253 2021
Thaman, K. H. (2003). Decolonizing Pacific studies: Indigenous perspectives, knowledge, and wisdom in higher education. The Contemporary Pacific, 15(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2003.0032