Pacific Futures: Projects, Politics and Interests

Pacific Futures......Page 1
Pacific Futures - Projects, Politics and Interests - Edited by Will Rollason......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Figures and Tables......Page 7
Introduction - Pacific Futures, Methodological Challenges - Will Rollason......Page 9
1 Imagining the Future - An Existential and Practical Activity - Lisette Josephides......Page 36
2 The Hanging of Buliga - A History of the Future in the Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea - Will Rollason......Page 56
3 Why the Future is Selfish and Could Kill - Contraception and the Future of Paama - Craig Lind......Page 79
4 Gambling Futures - Playing the Imminent in Highland Papua New Guinea - Anthony Pickles......Page 104
5 The Future of Christian Critique - Lost Tribes Discourses in Papua New Guinean Publics - Courtney Handman......Page 122
6 A Cursed Past and a Prosperous Future in Vanuatu - A Comparison of Different Conceptions of Self and Healing - Annelin Eriksen......Page 141
7 Chiefs for the Future? Roles of Traditional Titleholders in the Cook Islands - Arno Pascht......Page 160
8 A Coup-less Future for Fiji? - Between Rhetoric and Political Reality - Dominik Schieder......Page 180
9 The Devouring of the Placenta - The Criss-crossing and Confluence of Cosmological, Geomorphological, Ecological and Economic Cycles of Destruction and Repair in Ruatoria, Aotearoa/New Zealand - Dave Robinson......Page 204
10 The Human Face of Climate Change - Notes from Rotuma and Tuvalu - Vilsoni Hereniko......Page 234
Notes on Contributors......Page 245
Index......Page 249