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Possessing the Pacific City: Claiming place in urban Melanesia
Jennifer Day a, Barbara Andersen bhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106189Get rights and content Under a Creative Commons license Open access, Link HERE Highlights This special issue localises the concept of possession as it plays out across the nations of the independent Melanesian Pacific: Papua New Guinea (PNG), Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and Fiji. Our papers ask how possession of urban land is understood, claimed, negotiated and enacted under regimes…
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The Melanesian Way in the 21st Century: Culture, Politics, and FestivalsAnna Naupa
Pages 201-222 | Published online: 09 Apr 2025 ABSTRACT What happens to the Melanesian Way as a shared identity across scale, from people to nation and sub-region? I explore ideas of ‘Melanesian-ness’, drawing on the early ideas of Kanak independence leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Bernard Narokobi’s 1980 conceptualization of ‘the Melanesian Way’, and institutional interpretations by…