[ANU Pacific.Institute] Fwd: Recasting Tongan Sovereignty: Land, Gender and Indigeneity 1230-1.30 1 July, 2021

[Siobhan McDonnell]

Could you please circulate this seminar notice through the Pacific Institute.

Thanks,

Siobhan

Dr. Siobhan McDonnell

Senior Lecturer

Australian National University
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Subject: [RE&D] Recasting Tongan Sovereignty: Land, Gender and Indigeneity 1230-1.30 1 July, 2021


Dear all,



Please join me for Trish Tupou’s Thesis Proposal Review seminar titled ‘ Recasting Tongan Sovereignty: Land, Gender and Indigeneity’.



Allocated time/date of seminar:  12.30-1.30PM, 1st of July, 2021



This seminar will be held via zoom. Please find the zoom details  for the seminar below.



With thanks,



Siobhan







Seminar Abstract:



Explorations of sovereignty provide insights into the relationships between the nation state and her people. Tonga is often heralded as the only Pacific Island to have remained “sovereign,” having avoided formal colonisation. However, this sovereignty relied upon the subjugation of women and women’s bodies, as well as the re-writing of Tonga’s Indigenous ontologies of land. In my thesis I examine how Tonga’s written historical canon has often misrepresented women as mere appendages to independence; as a murdered priestess, or a strategic ‘giving away’ of one’s sister or daughter for marriage, or as only being in relationship with the land through the formalisation of land tenure via one’s husband. These changes in Tonga’s religious and political landscape continue to endure through the 1875 Constitution and the 1927 Land Act, both still in use today. Utilising innovative Indigenous methods such as fananga (story telling), as a vehicle to animate gendered connections to land, as well as renegotiating the tā vā (time and space) of our Tongan diaspora communities I recast our understanding of Tongan sovereignty and ask, what does it mean to be a Tongan sovereign woman? How and why have women and women’s bodies continued to threaten the validity of Tongan sovereignty and independence? And how do embodied archives of stories challenge the erasures of colonial legacies and the mapping of this violence onto ontologies of land?



Seminar chair:

Dr. Siobhan McDonnell



Panel members:

Dr. Lawrence Bamblett (ANU), Professor Noenoe Silva (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa), Dr. Leora (Lee) Kava (San Francisco State University)





Topic: Patricia (Trish) Tupou TPR Seminar

Time: Jul 1, 2021 12:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney



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