Pacific Identities And Well Being

Author : Margaret Nelson Agee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136287264
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Identities and Well-Being written by Margaret Nelson Agee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a significant gap in the cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary literature within the field of Pasifika (Polynesian) and Maori identities and mental health, this volume focuses on bridging mental health related research and practice within the indigenous communities of the South Pacific. Much of the content reflects both differences from and relationships with the dominant Western theories and practices so often unsuccessfully applied with these groups. The contributors represent both experienced researchers and practitioners and address topics such as research examining traditional and emerging Pasifika identities; contemporary research and practice in working with Pasifika youth and adolescents; culturally-appropriate approaches for working with Pasifika adults; and practices in supervision that have been developed by Maori and Pasifika practitioners. Chapters include practice scenarios, research reports, analyses of topical issues, and discussions about the appropriateness of applying Western theory in other cultural contexts. As Pasifika cultures are still primarily oral cultures, the works of several leading Maori and Pasifika poets that give voice to the changing identities and contemporary challenges within Pacific communities are also included.

Author : Jione Havea
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666762172
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Well-Being written by Jione Havea and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes space (1) for Pasifika contributions to academic conversations on critical topics and (2) for influencing the conversations to account for, and thus reflect, Pasifika ways and modes. The critical topic that runs through the chapters is well-being, and the contributors were located at the time of writing in Pasifika—Aotearoa, Fiji, Kioa, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu—but there are many more Pasifika voices and concerns than are represented in this work. Nonetheless, the ways in which this work seeks to influence the conversations on well-being reflect the intersectional modes of thinking that native Pasifika Islanders share. The essays are placed into three intersecting clusters: well-being of bodies and (is)lands, well-being of traditions and theologies, and well-being of imaginations and worldviews. The rationale for this arrangement is that the well-being of Pasifika requires attention to the present (bodies and islands), to the past (traditions and theologies), and to the future (imaginations and worldviews). The chapters address Pasifika questions and concerns, and they are placed so that the conversations they spark can take place—free of the traps of Western theories and disciplines—with Pasifika accents and rhythms.

Author : Philip Leroy Culbertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penina Uliuli written by Philip Leroy Culbertson and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific Identities 1. Supporting the Wellbeing of Pasifika Youth / Siautu Alefaio 2. Affirming Works: A Collective Model of Pasifika Mentoring / Emeline Afeaki-Mafile'o 3. Canoe Noses and Coconut Feet: Reading the Samoan Male Body / Tavita T. Maliko 4. Jonah, Arnold, and Me: Reading the Tongan Male Body / Maika Lutui 5. Being 'Afakasi / Tina Berking, Caroline Salumalo Patialofa, Karen Lupe, Seilosa Skipps-Patterson and Margaret Agee Issues in Pacific Spirituality 6. Spiritual Injury: A Samoan Perspective on Spirituality's Impact on Mental Health / David Lui 7. Making Culture God is Driving Our People Crazy!: An Interview With Cabrini 'Ofa Makasiale / Philip Culbertson 8. The Schizophrenic Church / A. Survivor 9. New Zealand-born Samoan Young People, Suicidal Behaviors, and the Positive Impact of Spirituality / To'oa Jemaima Tiatia The Pacific Unconscious 10. The Use of Symbol and Metaphor in Pasifika Counseling / Cabrini 'Ofa Makasiale 11. An Ocean with Many Shores: Indigenous Consciousness and the Thinking Heart / Karen Lupe 12. Hawaiki-Lelei: Journeys to Wellness / Seilosa Skipps-Patterson 13. Using Mea-alofa in a Holistic Model for Pasifika Clients: A Case Study / Fia T. Turner-Tupou 14. Keep Your Doughnuts to Yourself : Using Poetry in Pasifika Professional Practice / Peta Pila Palalagi Pacific Trauma and Healing 15. Colonialism, Acculturation, and Depression among Kanaka Maoli of Hawai'i / Joseph Keawe'aimoku Kaholokula 16. Crisis in Paradise: Family Violence in Samoan Communities / Karanina Siaosi Sumeo 17. Doing Good Work and Finding a Sense of Purpose: The Nature and Treatment of Substance Abuse and Violence among Native Hawaiians / A. Aukahi Austin 18. Pregnancy, Adoption, FASD, and Mental Illness / Suiamai Simi 19. Misplaced Dreams: Tongan Gambling in Auckland / Yvette Guttenbeil-Po'uhila and Sione Tu'itahi Bibliography of Pasifika Mental Health Resources / To'oa Jemaima Tiatia, Margaret Agee and Philip Culbertson.

Author : Diana Looser
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082484775X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remaking Pacific Pasts written by Diana Looser and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Although many Pacific Island cultures have a broad range of highly developed indigenous performance forms—including oral narrative, clowning, ritual, dance, and song—scripted drama is a relatively recent phenomenon. Emerging during a period of region-wide decolonization and indigenous self-determination movements, most of these plays reassert Pacific cultural perspectives and performance techniques in ways that employ, adapt, and challenge the conventions and representations of Western theater. Drawing together discussions in theater and performance studies, historiography, Pacific studies, and postcolonial studies, Remaking Pacific Pasts offers the first full-length comparative study of this dynamic and expanding body of work. It introduces readers to the field with an overview of significant works produced throughout the region over the past fifty years, including plays in English and in French, as well as in local vernaculars and lingua francas. The discussion traces the circumstances that have given rise to a particular modern dramatic tradition in each site and also charts routes of theatrical circulation and shared artistic influences that have woven connections beyond national borders. This broad survey contextualizes the more detailed case studies that follow, which focus on how Pacific dramatists, actors, and directors have used theatrical performance to critically engage the Pacific’s colonial and postcolonial histories. Chapters provide close readings of selected plays from Hawai‘i, Aotearoa/New Zealand, New Caledonia/Kanaky, and Fiji that treat events, figures, and legacies of the region’s turbulent past: Captain Cook’s encounters, the New Zealand Wars, missionary contact, the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, and the Fiji coups. The book explores how, in their remembering and retelling of these pasts, theater artists have interrogated and revised repressive and marginalizing models of historical understanding developed through Western colonialism or exclusionary indigenous nationalisms, and have opened up new spaces for alternative historical narratives and ways of knowing. In so doing, these works address key issues of identity, genealogy, representation, political parity, and social unity, encouraging their audiences to consider new possibilities for present and future action. This study emphasizes the contribution of artistic production to social and political life in the contemporary Pacific, demonstrating how local play production has worked to facilitate processes of creative nation building and the construction of modern regional imaginaries. Remaking Pacific Pasts makes valuable contributions to Pacific literature, world theater history, Pacific studies, and postcolonial studies. The book opens up to comparative critical discussion a geopolitical region that has received little attention from theater and performance scholars, extending our understanding of the form and function of theater in different cultural contexts. It enriches existing discussions in postcolonial studies about the decolonizing potential of literary and artistic endeavors, and it suggests how theater might function as a mode of historical enquiry and debate, adding to discussions about ways in which Pacific histories might be developed, challenged, or recalibrated. Consequently, the book stimulates new discussions in Pacific studies where theater has, to date, suffered from a lack of critical exposure. Carefully researched and original in its approach, Remaking Pacific Pasts will appeal to scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduate students in theater and performance studies and Pacific Islands studies; it will also be of interest to cultural historians and to specialists in cultural studies and postcolonial studies.

Author : Helen Lee
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921536918
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration and Transnationalism written by Helen Lee and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific Islanders have engaged in transnational practices since their first settlement of the many islands in the region. As they moved beyond the Pacific and settled in nations such as New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia these practices intensified and over time have profoundly shaped both home and diasporic communities. This edited volume begins with a detailed account of this history and the key issues in Pacific migration and transnationalism today. The papers that follow present a range of case studies that maintain this focus on both historical and contemporary perspectives. Each of the contributors goes beyond a narrowly economic focus to present the human face of migration and transnationalism; exploring questions of cultural values and identity, transformations in kinship, intergenerational change and the impact on home communities. Pacific migration and transnationalism are addressed in this volume in the context of increasing globalisation and growing concerns about the future social, political and economic security of the Pacific region. As the case studies presented here show, the future of the Pacific depends in many ways on the ties diasporic Islanders maintain with their homelands.

Author : Jione Havea
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666741299
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transgressing Race written by Jione Havea and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transgressing is an appropriate response to race as “a crime against humanity.” No one chooses their race at birth, yet many suffer because of their race. And while many people choose to change citizenship, their accents and faces can give them away as outsiders. Racism thrives on the categorization of people according to their race. Like the Black and White dichotomy, other racial and ethnic discriminations such as casteism, antisemitism, Zionism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia undergird and promote segregation all around the world. Dismantling racism requires challenging racialized oppressions and segregations in sacred texts and contexts, in beloved traditions and hallowed theologies. This book offers such biblical and theological discourses in order to transgress the discriminative segregations of racism in connection with other forms of exploitative systems (or shitstems). The book engages with racialized biblical texts and religious theologies, with acts of racial discrimination in connection with slavery and colonialism, with agonies of people in diaspora, struggles of postcolonial minoritized people, courage of indigenous people to subvert, and with the race-insensitive practices of theological and religious education. The contributors are located in Africa, Asia, North America, Europe, and Oceania.

Author : Jessica Terruhn
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839983450
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand written by Jessica Terruhn and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand is a future-focused edited collection that formulates alternative paradigms that can lead to a more just and ethical politics of mobility and migration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Examining a variety of topics, the book addresses the challenges of structural discrimination, integration and migrant rights framed within larger regional and global concerns. Collectively, the contributors advance perspectives on social justice and migrant rights, specifically addressing issues of ethics, collective well-being and solidarities. The collection brings together leading and early career scholars paired with practitioners in the migrations sector. Developing conceptual knowledge in migration studies, it fills a gap in the sparse literature on the politics of migration in Aotearoa New Zealand. While theoretically engaged and of value to the research community, the book also follows recent calls to better communicate the complexities of migration to policy makers, with accessible chapters that address a range of issues faced by migrants and speak to a wide audience.

Author : Zahirul Hoque
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000349020
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Sector Reform and Performance Management in Developed Economies written by Zahirul Hoque and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, there has been a shift of paradigm in public administration and public sector accounting around the world with the increasing emphasis on outcomes as opposed to inputs and outputs focus. Understanding of how government departments and agencies develop and implement outcomes-based approaches to their services and programs to strengthen public accountability, financial scrutiny and good governance worldwide is limited. Covering a selection of international practices on outcomes-based approaches to government departments, agencies and public higher educational institutions in developed economies, this comprehensive compilation provides an essential reading in the public sector accounting, accountability and performance management field. The contributions are grouped into three jurisdictions: Australasia, UK and Europe, and North America. It incorporates outcomes-based practices in public services from advanced economies and will be of significant interest to global public sector regulators, consultants, researchers, and academic communities as well as academic researchers in public administration and development studies fields. The insights offered by a country-specific practice will also be useful to governments in other countries implementing similar systems and practices and facing similar socio-political environments. This book will also help to gain an understanding of the issues of government accountability from a management point of view as well as from a socio-political point of view.

Author : Anita C. Galuschek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785336509
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selfhood and Recognition written by Anita C. Galuschek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other. Touching on humanity as porous, fractal, dividual, and relational, the author sheds new light on the nature of selfhood, recognition, relationality, and human life.

Author : Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317009649
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and the Branded City written by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing the major Pacific Rim cities of Sydney, Hong Kong and Shanghai, this book examines world city branding. Whilst all three cities compete on the world's stage for events, tourists and investment, they are also at the centre of distinct film traditions and their identities are thus strongly connected with a cinematic impression. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book not only analyses the city branding of these cities from the more widely researched perspectives of tourism, marketing and regional development, but also draws in cultural studies and psychology approaches which offer fresh and useful insights to place branding and marketing in general. The authors compare and contrast qualitative and quantitative original data as well as critically analyzing current texts and debates on city branding. In conclusion, they argue that city branding should contribute not only to regional development and identity, but also to sustainable economic well-being and public happiness.