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Notes
1 Great Ocean, Pacific, and Oceania will be used interchangeably in this text, but all refer to the Pacific region. I acknowledge that there are many names for the ocean across various languages of the region that are not mentioned here, each with their own nuanced understanding of place and belonging.
2 A month prior to the conference in March 2023, the Australia, United Kingdom, United States (AUKUS) nuclear submarine deal was unveiled. This agreement was received with scrutiny by Pacific leaders, who see this deal as a proliferation of imperial authority and a violation of anti-nuclear sentiments in the region. This is a recent instance in a long history of foreign powers intervening the Pacific under the guise of peace and security. See Koroi Hawkins, Kelvin Anthony, and Rachael Nath, ‘“Bringing war much closer to home”: Former Pacific leaders denounce AUKUS deal’, Radio New Zealand, 12 April 2023, https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/487808/bringing-war-much-closer-to-home-former-pacific-leaders-denounce-aukus-deal.
3 Australian Association for Pacific Studies, ‘Welcome’, To Hell With Drowning Conference Program 2023 program booklet, 4.
4 Julian Aguon, ‘To Hell With Drowning’, The Atlantic, 1 November 2021, https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/11/oceania-pacific-climate-change-stories/620570/.
5 Epeli Hau’ofa, ‘Our Sea of Islands’, The Contemporary Pacific 6, no.1 (1994): 148–161.
6 Mana is the spiritual lifeforce or power that permeates the universe, a spiritual presence.
7 Scott Richard Lyons, ‘Rhetorical Sovereignty: What do American Indians want from Writing?’, College Composition and Communication 51, no. 3 (2000): 449–450, https://doi.org/10.2307/358744.
8 Jeffrey Carroll, Brandy Nālani McDougall, and Georganne Nordstrom, Huihui: Navigating Art and Literature in the Pacific (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014), 6, https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.library.uq.edu.au/pub/5/edited_volume/chapter/1529267/pdf.
9 Johnson Raela, ‘VIDEO: “To hell with drowning” aims to reframe fatalist views of Pacific nations’, The Pacific, ABC TV, 18 April 2023, 6:00, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-18/to-hell-with-drowning-aims-to-reframe-fatalist-/102238970.
10 The lecture honours the late Dr Epeli Hau'ofa’s profound intellectual and creative impact on Pacific Studies
11 In Fijian, Samoan and Tongan languages, talanoa means to talk or discussion. This term is used now widely in Pacific Studies along with other terms as a dialogue format.
12 The speakers in the talanoa included Dame Meg Taylor, Papua New Guinean lawyer and diplomat; Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Sāmoan lawyer and diplomat; Anote Tong, Former President of Kiribati; Moemoana Schwenke, Sāmoan performance artist, emerging writer, director, environmental advocate and cultural arts tutor; Itinterunga Rae Bainteiti, Banaban, I-Kiribati and Fijian climate advocate; Jope Tarai, Fijian PhD candidate and climate activist; and Professor Katerina Teaiwa.
13 Hau'ofa, ‘Our Sea of Islands,’ 39
14 See Linda Tuhiwai Smith, ‘Introduction’, in Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (London: Zed Books, 2021), 1–4.
15 Katerina Teaiwa and Yuki Kihara, ‘Background’, Project Banaba, 2019, https://www.projectbanaba.com/.
16 Moemoana Schwenke, ‘Storytelling through Siva Samoa’, Instagram, 31 August 2023, https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cwn-KaTyRWm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==.
17 This session featured Darumbal and South Sea Islander educator Dr Melina Mann; Maureen Penjueli, Coordinator for the Pacific Network on Globalisation, a non-for-profit that seeks to promote and elevate Pacific Peoples Rights to be self-determining; Ronnie Kareni, West Papuan diplomat, and cultural advocate; Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, mixed Kānaka Maoli visual artist, scholar, and activist; and chaired by Dr Virginia Marshall, a Wiradjuri Nyemba lawyer.
18 Penjueli is the Coordinator for the Pacific Network on Globalisation, a non-for-profit that seeks to promote and elevate Pacific Peoples Rights to be self-determining, working in the gaps between constitutional and individual sovereignty in a Fijian based NGO.
19 See https://rightnow.org.au/opinion/music-is-a-weapon-for-west-papuan-liberation/ and https://www.theguardian.com/global/2011/mar/15/west-papua-singing-freedom-indonesia.
20 Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, ‘Sounding’, Joy Enomoto website, 2023, https://www.joyenomoto.com/sounding.html.
21 The speakers as representatives of archival institutions featured in this session included Libby Cass, National Library of Australia; Jacky Clements, ANU Library; Kathryn Dan, ANU Archives; Steven Gagau, University of Sydney; Natalie Harkin, artist and academic, Flinders University; Lisa Hilli, artist and PhD candidate, ANU; Kari James, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, ANU; Julia Miller, ANU; and Catherine Ziegler, ANU Library Archives.
22 Kirsten Thorpe, ‘Position Statement on the Right of Reply to Indigenous Knowledges and Information held in Archives Released’, Indigenous Archives Collective, 9 August 2021, https://indigenousarchives.net/2021/08/09/position-statement-on-the-right-of-reply-to-indigenous-knowledges-and-information-held-in-archives-released/.
23 See https://www.merri-bek.vic.gov.au/exploring-merri-bek/events/whats-on/sydney-road-blaks/; https://art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/collective-unease/ and https://www.nzatvenice.com/
24 Sana Balai in ‘Narrating Our Bodies in Research-Creation’, Australian Association for Pacific Studies, YouTube, 23 August 2023, 31:00, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVx9L8Zfl88&t=2377s.