Pacific Futures: Past and Present 9780824877422

How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Te Declension of History
Part One: Genealogies of the Future
1. Horizons and Rifts in Conversations about Climate Change in Oceania
2. Genetic Drift: Pacific Pasts and Futures
3. Inside Us the Unborn: Genealogies, Futures, Metaphors, and the Opposite of Zombies
4. A Different Historiography for “A Handful of Chickpeas Flung over the Sea”: Approaching the Federated States of Micronesia’s Deeper Past
Part Two: Transit Futures
5. “Time Is on Our Side”: Shipping and the Coming of Flight in the Pacific
6. Imagined Futures in the Past: Empire, Place, Race, and Nation in the Mapping of Oceania
Part Tree: Asian Pacifics
7. Imperial Futures and India’s Pacifics: Space, Temporality, and the Textures of Empire
8. Unbound Space: Migration, Aspiration, and the Making of Time in the Cantonese Pacific
Part Four: Weedy Historicities
9. “Return of the Native”: Two Routes Back for a “Dying Race ”
10. Education for the Future: University of Hawai‘i Sociology, Assimilationist Historicity, and the Making of Settler Colonial Culture
11. “A Lasting Benefit for a New Race”? Rev. J. F. H. Wohlers and Racial Amalgamation in Southern New Zealand
12. On the Beach in the Marquesas: Weedy Historicities and Prosthetic Futures
Afterword: Pacific Futurities
Contributors
Index

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