[ANU Pacific.Institute] Thesis Proposal Review: Talei Luscia Mangioni 'Critical and Creative Histories of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific'

[Mitiana Arbon]

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Layered image of ocean, hand drawn map from Pacific Women Speak (1987) and "For a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific" logo from Manila NFIP Conference proceedings (1987)


TPR Seminar

Critical and Creative Histories of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific

Dear all,

On behalf of Talei Luscia Mangioni, CHL Communicate would like to invite you all to a TPR presentation on Critical and Creative Histories of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific.

“The historical latticework of nuclear colonialism perpetuated by American, British, and French powers over the past century clearly demonstrates that the Greater Pacific has borne the brunt of the atomic age. While literatures examining mining, testing and dumping are substantial and critical, scholarship on the Pacific’s shifting environmental consciousness and united response for nuclear-freedom and self-determination is both patchy and eclectic. Frequently evoked as the region’s first grassroots political movement, the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP), owing to the foundational work of Against Testing on Muroroa (ATOM) in Fiji and the earlier Nuclear Free Pacific conferences, connected a radical constellation of activists intending to stand for the people, rather than political leaders. This operated intersectionally, including but not limited to: church, feminist, university, peace and trade union groups. Here, Pacific activists asserted that nuclear weapons testing and colonialism were undeniably intertwined, in spite of growing anti-nuclear and disarmament supporters who routinely saw them as distinctly apart.

According to Teresia Teaiwa, the “NFIP operate[d] on the premise that whatever happens in one part of the Pacific Ocean affects the whole ocean, the continentals living on the edge of it, and the Islanders living in the middle of it” (1994, 101). To chart the expansion of this deeply relational and holistic worldview firmly grounded in a place-based regional identity, my presentation aims to introduce how I will examine Pacific and trans-Indigenous kinship and futurities through historical ethnography, visual and creative storytelling. Braiding archival research, talanoa semi-structured interviews and the arts, I will empathise how these “counter networks of empires” have in some ways redefined a collective Pacific identity beyond the local (Banivanua-Mar and Rhook 2018).” – Talei Luscia Mangioni

Seminar type: Thesis Proposal Review
Title: Critical and Creative Histories of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific
Time: 12pm – 1.30pm, Wednesday, 4th March 2020
Location: Seminar Room, China in the World Building, Australian National University
Speaker: Talei Luscia Mangioni, PhD Student, School of Culture, History & Language



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