{"title":"The Spanish contribution to the exploration and charting of the South Pacific (1770–75): Knowledge exchange in the South Sea","authors":"Mirela Altic","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00126_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00126_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the Spanish contribution to the exploration and charting of the South Pacific at the time of Captain James Cook. The article focuses on three expeditions conducted in the Age of Enlightenment, reflecting certain changes in the discourse of exploration and dissemination of knowledge. Captain Don Felipe González de Ahedo arrived on Easter Island in 1770, claimed it in the name of the Spanish crown and, with the help of his navigator Juan Hervé, conducted detailed charting of the island. Hervé would play a key role in the next two expeditions sent to the South Pacific by the Viceroy of Peru, Manuel de Amat y Junyent. The two expeditions led by Domingo de Bonechea Andonaegui in 1772–73 and 1774–75 explored and charted Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago. As a result of the expeditions, apart from comprehensive travel logs, a series of some ninety charts appeared, documenting the achievements of Spanish maritime cartography of the South Pacific. In this article, interaction between Spanish and other explorative cartographers will be considered, giving special regard to the influence of Cook. The article presents the Spanish manuscript charts of the South Pacific that are kept in the State Library of New South Wales (Somaglia Collection), the Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid), the Archivo General de Indias (Seville), the Museo Naval de Madrid and Biblioteca Nacional de Chile.","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114144992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archipelagic aesthetics in Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory","authors":"Stefanie Mueller","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00123_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00123_1","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars have often noted a poetics of fragmentation in Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory and have interpreted it in terms of an adaption of modernist aesthetic. Building on this work, this article argues that, while Perez’s poetry may be adapting familiar modernist poetics, more significantly it presents an aesthetic that is rooted in the relationship between landscape and colonization and therefore in the historical and material reality of what Epeli Hau‘ofa called ‘the sea of islands’: an archipelagic aesthetic. This article further proposes to understand this archipelagic aesthetic, first, as the combined affordances of two forms, the bounded whole and the network. In from unincorporated territory, this archipelagic aesthetic allows Perez to explore interdependence on different temporal and spatial scales because, second, the archipelago is also more than the form of the network and the whole: it is a landscape that has been shaped by colonialism as well as by geology, and it therefore affords a temporal scale that reaches beyond human record into deep time. Furthermore, as a chain of islands, the archipelago affords a relationality that goes beyond continental and territorial categories into the submerged realities of planetary ocean flows.","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129370470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange, Jon Mitchell (2020)","authors":"Roy Smith","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00112_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00112_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange, Jon Mitchell (2020)\u0000 Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 320 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 1 53813 033 9 (hbk), US$24.95","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"228 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133145777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures, Erin Suzuki (2021)","authors":"R. Lansdown","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00122_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00122_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures, Erin Suzuki (2021)\u0000 Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 268 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 1 43992 094 7 (pbk), US$39.95","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114944584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Auto-experimentation in wave piloting and celestial navigation: Vaeakau-Taumako, Solomon Islands","authors":"R. Feinberg","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00109_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00109_7","url":null,"abstract":"This report involves what I term ‘auto-experimentation’, or experimenting on myself, to learn and assess the arts of seafaring and navigation as practised in the south-eastern Solomon Islands. From 2007 to 2008, I spent nine months with people of the Polynesian island of Taumako, exploring local seafaring techniques. My objective was to study non-instrument navigation as a participant observer, combining verbal instruction with a 70-mile voyage in a large outrigger canoe, without the aid of navigational instruments, from Taumako to the Outer Reef or Vaeakau islands. However, no voyaging canoes were operational during my time in the field. Therefore, instead of watching navigators as they plied their trade, I spoke with them at length and tried to test my own ability to implement what I had learned from my instructors. Here I recount my efforts, while travelling aboard a cargo ship in the Solomon Islands’ Temotu Province, to estimate my heading and location by tracking the movements of stars, the sun, and wind and wave patterns. I then consider my own level of success and what it might suggest about the effectiveness of methods imparted to me by my interlocutors.","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123848001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Not in Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Brian Easton (2020)","authors":"André Brett","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00120_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00120_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Not in Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Brian Easton (2020)\u0000 Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 688 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 1 77656 304 3 (pbk), NZ$60.00","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121864025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carl Schmitt and Chinese political thought: Relevance for Papua New Guinea and the Pacific","authors":"D. Lea","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00124_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00124_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the relevance of the theories of German jurist Carl Schmitt for understanding Papua New Guinea (PNG) politics and international relations, with a focus on relations with China. In pursuing this analysis, the text gives particular emphasis to Schmitt’s friend–enemy distinction. In order to understand the regional context in which China has a growing presence, this article initially highlights the preoccupation of Chinese intellectuals with the ideas of Schmitt. It proceeds to mention the use of Schmitt’s ideas in supporting the particular ideological positions of Chinese liberals, the New Leftists, those who articulate the China Path and even the Chinese state. Through a comparative analysis I both compare how Schmittian ideas have been used by Chinese intellectuals to critique the economic inequality in Chinese society and alternatively the relevance of such critiques to the issues of social inequality in PNG. The discussion subsequently focuses on PNG’s international relations and China’s increasing economic and political influence. While the United States and its regional partner Australia appear to be alarmed by an expanding Chinese presence, others do not necessarily believe that Beijing has overreaching ambitions of global dominance. The article considers the suggestion that Chinese thinking on international relations has been influenced by Schmitt’s concept of the Großraum, an alternative to the Westphalian system, in which international relations are marked by a dominant hegemon and self-contained regional blocks consisting of constellated nations. As PNG finds itself in a critical position and subject to pressures from both the West and China, the text considers PNG sovereignty within a possible regional system in which China serves as the dominant hegemon.","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123655061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geoff Lealand, 1947–2022","authors":"I. Conrich","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00127_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00127_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115909316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whāriki: The Growth of Māori Community Entrepreneurship, Merata Kawharu and Paul Tapsell (2019)","authors":"Abigail McClutchie","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00113_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00113_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Whāriki: The Growth of Māori Community Entrepreneurship, Merata Kawharu and Paul Tapsell (2019)\u0000 Auckland: Oratia Books, 198 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 0 94750 663 6 (pbk), NZ$39.99","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124638975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archaeology of Pacific Oceania: Inhabiting a Sea of Islands, Mike T. Carson (2018)","authors":"Hermann Mückler","doi":"10.1386/nzps_00118_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00118_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Archaeology of Pacific Oceania: Inhabiting a Sea of Islands, Mike T. Carson (2018)\u0000 London and New York: Routledge, 406 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978 1 13809 717 9 (pbk), £36.99","PeriodicalId":205998,"journal":{"name":"Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies","volume":"10 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120945831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}