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The Contemporary Pacific: About the Artist: Shigeyuki Kihara

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The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. vii

About the Artist: Shigeyuki Kihara

Shigeyuki Kihara is a visual and performance artist based in Auckland, New Zea­land. The recipient in 2003 of Creative New Zea­land Art Council's Emerging Pacific Island Artist Award, her cutting-edge work challenges cultural stereo­types and dominant norms of sexuality and gender. Crossing borders is integral to Kihara's life. She grew up with a Japanese father and Samoan mother, and in adolescence began occupying the Samoan space (vä) of a Fa'afafine—a liminal gender category best translated as a male who identifies as a woman.

Kihara's first acclaim came in 2000 when her exhibition Teuanoa'i: Adorn to Excess (twenty-six t-shirts satirizing corporate logos) created a sensation and was purchased by New Zealand's National Museum Te Papa Tongarewa. Her next work re-appropriated ethnographic images of Polynesians with modern consumer items through the medium of paper...

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The Contemporary Pacific: Polynesia in Review: Tokelau

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The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 256-262

Political Reviews

Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006

Tokelau 

Kelihiano Kalolo

Arguably the most important event in recent years for Tokelau's political development was the self-determination referendum that took place on 13 February 2006. Tokelau's 615 registered voters went to the polls to determine whether Tokelau would become self-governing in free association with New Zealand or continue as a non– self-governing territory of New Zealand. The two-thirds majority required for changing Tokelau's political status by voting "yes" was not achieved, and the status quo will continue, at least until another referendum is held. The February referendum had been envisaged as the final step in a series of interrelated and sequential events leading to a new self-determined political status for Tokelau. This report seeks to...

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The Contemporary Pacific: Polynesia in Review: Wallis and Futuna

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The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 286-290

Political Reviews

Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006

Wallis and Futuna 

Frédéric Angleviel 

The "non-event" of the year was the follow-up to the customary law crisis, as reformers have decided to abandon efforts to crown a new Lavelua (paramount chief, or king, of Wallis), thereby allowing Lavelua Tomasi Kulimoetoke to regain his throne. Procedures for dismissing a Lavelua do exist, but they have always involved, to a greater or lesser extent, both discussion among the families with titles and the use of violence. This is the first time in the history of Wallis that a Lavelua has held the title continuously for 46 years. The average length of reign from 1869–1959 was 5.6 years.

This exceptional longevity is primarily due to the political adroitness of the current Lavelua, who has been able to keep his throne despite the existence of other...

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The Contemporary Pacific: Polynesia in Review: Tuvalu

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The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 276-286

Political Reviews

Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006

Tuvalu 

Tauaasa Taafaki

The World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in 2002 provided the impetus for Tuva­lu's first-ever National Summit on Sustainable Development, which took place from late June through early July 2004 . Invited participants included several from each island (chiefs, elected councilors or kaupule, women, and youth delegates), representatives from each of the eight island communities on Funafuti, senior officials, ministers, politicians, and representatives from youth groups, faith-based organizations, women's associations, regional bodies (South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, Forum Secretariat, Pacific Regional Environment Programme, University of the South Pacific), and business houses. Four or five expatriate...

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The Contemporary Pacific: Polynesia in Review: French Polynesia

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The Contemporary Pacific Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 213-222

Political Reviews

Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006

French Polynesia

Lorenz Gonschor 

Political life in French Polynesia during the review period was still characterized by instability and uncertainty about the future, and had only cooled down slightly after the political crisis of 2004–2005. The new government under President Oscar Temaru, who had been inaugurated in March 2005, seemed to be firmly in power during most of 2005, but 2006 brought another attempted overthrow, following a split in the governing coalition. Among the general population, the original euphoria of a new policy of Taui Roa (Big Change) has to a large degree become replaced by a more sober sentiment as taui (change) is happening slower than people had hoped. Meanwhile, the relationship between the local government and the French state fluctuates between confrontation and...

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