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Umufonotalatalaga ma faiā‘oga Samoa – Navigating Samoan teachers’ experiences in classroom behaviour management

Faamanatu-Eteuati, Niusila (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This qualitative research study explored Samoan teachers’ experiences of classroom behaviour management in the context of Samoan secondary schools. As Pacific teachers of the 21st century, we are encouraged to be resilient ...
"[They] danced, and, then, … it was our turn to dance": Performative cultural diplomacy between Tuvalu and Taiwan

Marinaccio, Jess (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Taiwan (the Republic of China, ROC) contains vibrant communities of Pacific diplomats and students from Taiwan’s allies—as of August 2019, this included Tuvalu, Nauru, Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, and ...
(Re)Viewing the Other: Gender Subversions in IndoFijian Performances

Shandil, Vicky (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Cultural performances are more than forms of entertainment and vehicles for conveying social and religious traditions. These acts are political acts that can exceed their role of promulgating hegemonic formations and instead ...
Tensions and Possibilities. The Interplay of 'Traditional' Cultural Elements and the Creation of 'Contemporary' Rapa Nui, Māori and Samoan Diasporic Theatre

Fortin Cornejo, Moira (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis focuses on notions of ‘traditional’ and ‘contemporary’ theatre in two Pacific Island contexts, Aotearoa and Rapa Nui. It explores how notions of ‘tradition’ are imagined, recreated, and performed through the ...
'The Bitter Sweetness of the Space Between': Creative Reflections of Pasifika Ethnic Mixedness

Fatu, Emily (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This Master of Arts thesis investigates and draws conclusions regarding how creative arts present accommodating spaces for articulating and understanding cultural mixedness amongst Pacific populations in New Zealand. New ...
Menginpehn lien Pohnpei: A poetic ethnography of urohs (Pohnpeian skirts)

Kihleng, Emelihter S. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This thesis perpetuates a legacy of menginpehn lien Pohnpei (the handiwork of Pohnpeian women) through a poetic ethnography of urohs, Pohnpeian appliquéd and machine embroidered skirts. I trace the “social life” of these ...
An exploratory case study on child sex tourism in a Pacific country: Samoa

Christiansen, Lurlene Virginia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

In 2006, The Committee of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, expressed concern about rising tourism in Samoa, and the possibility of associated sexual exploitation of local children. The Committee ...
I Kahiki ke Ola: In Kahiki there is Life, Ancestral Memories and Migrations in the New Pacific

Case, Emalani (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

While exploring different topics and issues—examining everything from the importance of our Pacific genealogies, to the analysis of Hawaiian language literature, to the power of prophecies and predictions for the future, ...
The Maternity Experience of New Zealand Samoan First-time Mothers

Churchward, Marianna Ellen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Motherhood is a life-changing event. It is a significant milestone for a woman. This thesis explores the concept of motherhood from the perspectives of Samoan first-time mothers living in New Zealand. The thesis traces ...
Discourses of Vulnerability: Kiribati, I-Kiribati Women and Forced Migration Due to Climate Change

Mansfield, Holly (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Discourses of vulnerability abound in climate change literature; both particular types of places and particular groups of people are routinely considered especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Such discourses ...
Perceptions of Samoan Parents from a Small Town in New Zealand on Parenting, Childhood Aggression, and the CD-ROM 'Play Nicely'

Cowley-Malcolm, Esther (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This qualitative study describes the perceptions of 18 parents of Samoan ethnicity from Tokoroa, New Zealand. The aims of the study were to: 1) investigate the perceptions of parents’ of Samoan ethnicity in Tokoroa, New ...
Rapanui and Chile, a Debate on Self-Determination: A Notional and Legal Basis for the Political Decolonisation of Easter Island

Gómez S., Rodrigo A. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This project is an ambitious attempt to review the tie between Chile and Rapanui according to law. According to Gonschor the people of Easter Island are entitled to obtain political decolonisation according to the United ...
Le Tofi ne'i Vale Tuulima: Perceptions of Samoan Students, Teachers and Parents on the Place of the Samoan Language in New Zealand Today

Wilson, Salainaoloa Lisa-Maree (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

While globally languages are evolving and changing, language shift has been most prevalent in migrant communities, particularly those with larger numbers living outside of the homelands, such as the Samoan community in New ...
Writing the Colony: Walter Edward Gudgeon in the Cook Islands, 1898-1909

Whimp, Graeme (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

Recent decades have witnessed a number of challenges from a variety of perspectives to long-standing depictions of the processes and relationships of colonisation. In particular, questions have been raised about its ...
Inventory of Pacific Research at Victoria University of Wellington 1999-2005

Fairbairn-Dunlop, Peggy; Asmar, Christine; Teaiwa, Teresia; Davidson-Toumu'a, Ruth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

This inventory seeks to document the range of research interests and activities taking place on Pacific topics at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). It has emerged out of a collaboration between the Office of ...