2024/01/02 by Talei Luscia Mangioni · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Island Studies and Pacific Affairs #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/00223344.2023.2297067
openalex publication_date 2024/01/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/13
The transgressive spirit, critical flair, and cultural power of Pacific grassroots movements are too often ignored or relegated to the footnotes within the discipline of Pacific history. Through a montage of creative and pedagogical campaigns, this article considers the Against Testing On Moruroa (ATOM) Committee in Fiji, and the regional Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement, as a nascent form of applied grassroots Pacific Studies. It then suggests that scholars ought to engage with the creative chronicle of social movements to make creative Pacific histories. Inspired by Fijian-Tongan poet and scholar Tagi Qolouvaki’s invocation of ‘activist art/story’, this article then describes the author’s creative practice-led research using audio documentary to recast the intellectual genealogy of critical Pacific Studies, discussing this movement as a foundational grassroots counter network.