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Journal Article Review of Szadziewski, H. (2020). Converging Anticipatory Geographies in Oceania: The Belt and Road Initiative and Look North in Fiji.
Szadziewski (2020) argues that the geo-economic ambitions expressed in Fiji’s “Look North” policy and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has imbued emotion into Fiji’s national landscape. Their geo-economic ambitions have met in Fiji in a way that has imbued national space with a “hope” of economic prosperity. This review analyses the effect of hope… Continue reading
Anticipatory Geographies, Asia Investment Bank, Belt and Road Initiative, BRI, China, Coral Coast, Development Discourse, Emotion, Emotional geographies, Fiji, Hope, Look North, Maritime Silk Road, Moral geography, Power China, Power Construction Corporation of China, Sino-Fijian Relationship, Space, structural Re-adjustment, The Silk Road Ark Hotel -
Journal Article Review of Sheng, F., & Smith, G. (2021). The Shifting Fate of China’s Pacific Diaspora.
In this article we review Sheng and Smith’s (2021) chapter, The Shifting Fate of China’s Pacific Diaspora in the edited book The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands. Roxane de Waegh engages with Sheng and Smith’s (2021) material on the founding of a Chinese diaspora in the Pacific in the colonial period… Continue reading
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Journal Article Review of Maclellan, N. (2021) Stable, Democratic and Western: China and French Colonialism in the Pacific
Maclellan’s (2021) chapter, Stable Democratic and Western: China and French Colonialism in the Pacific, is part of Smith & Wesley-Smith (2021) edited book The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands. The edited book as a whole brings together a collection of scholars who analyze China’s growing involvement in the Pacific. The edited… Continue reading
ANZUS, Aquaculture, Australia, Blue Economy, China, Colonialism, Development Partners, Edouard Fritch, Entrepreneurs, foreign capital, France, French Polynesia, Geopolitics, Hau Atoll, Imperialism, New Caledonia, New Commercial Pacific Diplomacy, New Pacific Diplomacy, Non-State Actors, Oceania, Pacific, Securitization, Tahiti Nui Ocean Foods, Tianrui Group, Wang Chen -
Secure Seas and Fisheries: Guardians of the Ocean in the Modern Geopolitical Complex
Epeli Hau’ofa’s highly influential essay, Our Sea of Islands, asserts that the peoples of Oceania, are not passive figures on the regional and world stage as they are so commonly depicted. Rather, he considers Oceanic peoples to be guardians that play a vital and powerful role in the environmental protection of the region’s Ocean resources.… Continue reading
Aid, Angola Mode, Arc of Instability, Australia, Blue Boats, China, Customary Sea Tenure, Distant Water, Exclusive Economic Zones, Fisheries, Guardians of the Ocean, Illegal Unreported and Unregulated, Infrastructure, Oceania, Operation Rai Balang, Our Sea of Islands, South China Sea, Sovereignty, State of the Neighbourhood, Step-Up