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Rewriting the World: Pacific People, Media, and Cultural Resistance

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This chapter explores how media is used both to create and resist hegemonic constructions of identity. Using Pacific peoples as an example, this chapter explores how media continues to portray colonial understandings of Pacific peoples and how Pacific peoples rewrite these hegemonic understandings using the same media that constructs them. This chapter considers various forms of media including poetry, film, blogs, online newspapers, and social media and how each is utilized to resist mainstream understandings of the Pacific.

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  1. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada

    Sereana Naepi

  2. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Sam Manuela

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    Steven Ratuva

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Naepi, S., Manuela, S. (2019). Rewriting the World: Pacific People, Media, and Cultural Resistance. In: Ratuva, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0242-8_132-1

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