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Please see below for details of next Thursday's Pacific and Asian History seminar. It may be of interest to some.</div>
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<strong class="">Department of Pacific and Asian History </strong></div>
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<strong class="">2014 Seminar Series</strong><br class="">
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;" class="">Thursday, 11 December 2014, 10:00am - 12:00pm</span><br class="">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Seminar Room B, Coombs Building (9), Fellows Road, ANU</span></div>
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<strong style="font-size: 14pt;" class="">Land Reform in Melanesia: Solomon Islands 1893 – 2014</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Mid-Term Review</span></div>
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<strong style="font-size: 18pt;" class="">Joseph D. Foukona</strong></div>
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This seminar provides a general overview on the progress of my research, both archival and fieldwork, on land reform in Melanesia, primarily Solomon Islands. I take a multi-disciplinary approach to the process of land reform from the inception of Solomon Islands
as a British Protectorate in 1893, through the establishment of an Independent State in 1978, until the present day. I draw on a range of concepts and theoretical positions, including the frontier/contact zone, the role of violence and depopulation, property
rights and actor network theory, to explore how key actor experiences have shaped and influenced the process of land reform in Solomon Islands. A brief outline of my proposed chapters is followed by a discussion of my methodological approach, highlighting
some of the themes and findings that have emerged from my research.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Joseph D. Foukona is currently a PhD candidate at the Australian National University. He is a lawyer and an experienced teacher lecturing at the School of Law, University of the South Pacific since 2004. His research
focus matches closely his keen personal interest in finding solutions to the seemingly intractable problem of the alignment in Melanesia between customary land tenure systems on one hand and state legislation, land administration and commercial demands on
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</span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">Danton Leary <</span><span lang="EN-AU" class=""><a href="mailto:danton.leary@anu.edu.au" class="">danton.leary@anu.edu.au</a></span><span lang="EN-AU" class="">></span></div>
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Pacific and Asian History, <br class="">
School of Culture, History and Language,<br class="">
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