OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Contemporary Pacific is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pacific People Navigating the Sacred Vā to Frame Relational Care: A Conversation between Friends across Space and Time	4
Pacific Island Pride: How We Navigate Australia	3
“Keeping an Eye Out for Women”: Implicit Feminism, Political Leadership, and Social Change in the Pacific Islands	3
A Different Kind of Vā: Spiraling through Time and Space	3
“We Want Development”: Land and Water (Dis)connections in Port Moresby, Urban Papua New Guinea	3
The Promise of Education: Schooling Journeys in the Southwestern Pacific	2
Do Climate Change Interventions Impact the Determinants of Health for Pacific Island Peoples? A Literature Review	2
"There's Money but No Work": Diploma Disruptions in Urban Papua	2
Toward Cognitive Justice: Reconstructions of Climate Finance Governance in Fiji	2
"Just Something in History": Classroom Knowledge and Refusals to Teach the Tension in Solomon Islands	2
Kapaemahu: Toward Story Sovereignty of a Hawaiian Tradition of Healing and Gender Diversity	2
The Compensation Page: News Narratives of Public Kinship in Papua New Guinea Print Journalism	2
The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2021	1
Fiji	1
"All Read Well": Schooling on Solid Ground in a Solomon Islands Language Movement	1
Māori Issues	1
About the Artist: Jasmine Togo-Brisby	1
Atea: Nature and Divinity in Polynesia	1
Timor-Leste	1
Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans	1
Seeking a Panacea: Attempts to Address the Failings of Fiji and Solomon Islands Formal Education in Preparing Young People for Livelihood Opportunities	1
The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2020	1
Contemporary Moana Mobilities: Settler-Colonial Citizenship, Upward Mobility, and Transnational Pacific Identities	1
Bougainville	1
Fiji	1

"We Are So Happy EPF Came": Transformations of Gender in Port Moresby Schools	1
Norfolk Island	1
Kanaky New Caledonia	1
Framing the Islands: Power and Diplomatic Agency in Pacific Regionalism by Greg Fry	1
Sāmoa	1
Tokelau	0
A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories: Ten Design Principles by Matt K Matsuda	0
Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology ed. by Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen	0
Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses by Philipp Schorch	0
Papua New Guinea	0
The Past before Us: Mo‘okū‘auhau as Methodology ed. by Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu	0
Tonga	0
Vanuatu	0
Rapa Nui	0
Toward an Understanding of Patron-Client Politics and Corruption in Papua New Guinea: A Narrative Review	0
Confronting Australian Apathy: Latai Taumoepeau and the Politics of Performance in Pacific Climate Stewardship	0
Pitcairn	0
Guåhan (Guam)	0
American Sāmoa and Sāmoa	0
Toward Cognitive Justice: Reconstructions of Climate Finance Governance in Fiji	0
Possessing Polynesia: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania by Maile Arvin	0
Papua	0
Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures ed. by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, and Craig Santos Perez (review)	0
Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam by Christine Taitano DeLisle (review)	0
Tonga	0
Niue	0
Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora by Makiko Nishitani (review)	0
Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences by Jessica A Schwartz (review)	0
Pacific Possessions: The Pursuit of Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century Oceanian Travel Accounts by Chris J Thomas	0
Indigeneity: A Politics of Potential: Australia, Fiji and New Zealand by Dominic O’Sullivan	0
About the Artist: Monica Dolores Baza	0
Northern Mariana Islands	0
Contributors	0
Tokelau	0
About the Artist: Yuki Kihara	0
Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands by Emily C Donaldson	0
Wantok Meri by Peter Warren	0
Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i by Candace Fujikane (review)	0
Guåhan (Guam)	0
Kiribati	0
“It Will Be Like a Town Here, Things Are Really Coming Up!”: Inequality in Village-Based Cruise Ship Tourism in the Trobriand Islands	0
Federated States of Micronesia	0
Contributors	0
Tuvalu	0
Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2020	0
French Polynesia	0
Solomon Islands	0
Hawai‘i	0
Atea: Nature and Divinity in Polynesia	0
Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood by Dean Itsuji Saranillio	0

Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future by Albert J Schütz	0
Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Sāmoa by JoAnna Poblete	0
Making Sartorial Sense of Empire: Contested Meanings of Aloha Shirt Aesthetics	0
A Whakapapa of Tradition: 100 Years of Ngāti Porou Carving, 1830–1930 by Ngarino Ellis	0
Papua	0
Pitcairn	0
Margaret Mead by Paul Shankman	0
Hawai‘i	0
Oceania in Review Editor's Note	0
Cartooning History: Lai's Fiji and the Misadventures of the Scrawny Black Cat (review)	0
Fiji	0
Cook Islands	0
Māori Issues	0
Bougainville	0
Māori Issues	0
E Hina e! E Hine e! Mana Waahine Maaori/Maoli of Past, Present and Future	0
About the Artist: Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu	0
Kiribati	0
Niue	0
American Sāmoa and Sāmoa	0
Timor-Leste	0
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas	0
Kalaupapa Place Names: Waikolu to Nihoa by John R K Clark	0
One Salt Water: The Storied Work of Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Imagining with West Papua	0
In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua by Sophie Chao (review)	0
Waikiki dir. by Christopher Kahunahana	0
Gesturing to the Past: The Case for an Ethnography of Melanesian Poetics	0
Reclaiming Kalākaua: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on a Hawaiian Sovereign by Tiffany Lani Ing	0
Northern Mariana Islands	0
In the Absence of the Gift: New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community by Anders Emil Rasmussen, and: If Everyone Returned, the Island Would Sink: Urbanisation and Migration in	0
Hawai'i	0
Mobilities of Return: Pacific Perspectives ed. by John Taylor and Helen Lee	0
Our Islands, Our Refuge: Response to Craig Santos Perez's "Blue-Washing the Colonization and Militarization of 'Our Ocean'"	0
Becoming Educators in Oceania: From Ridge to Reef to the Region and Then Returning Home	0
Kanaky New Caledonia	0
Atea: Nature and Divinity in Polynesia	0
A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania by Lorenz Gonschor	0
Kanaky New Caledonia	0
Inundation: Contemporary Art and Climate Change in the Pacific	0
Smart Sanctions, Hollow Gestures, and Multilateral Sport: New Zealand–Fiji Relations and the Politics of Professional Rugby, 1987–2011	0
Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and Their Polynesian Ancestors by Andrew Crowe	0
Editor's Note: Interdisciplinarity Reimagined	0
French Polynesia	0
Solomon Islands	0
Northern Mariana Islands	0
Community Music in Oceania: Many Voices, One Horizon by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet et al.	0
Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific by Diana Looser (review)	0
The Indigénat and France's Empire in New Caledonia: Origins, Practices and Legacies by Isabelle Merle and Adrian Muckle (review)	0
Asia-Pacific Fishing Livelihoods by Michael Fabinyi and Kate Barclay	0
Pacific Women in Politics: Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands by Kerryn Baker	0
Solomon Islands	0
Blue-Washing the Colonization and Militarization of "Our Ocean"	0
Contributors	0
Papua	0
Papua New Guinea	0
Leveling Wind: Remembering Fiji by Brij V Lal (review)	0
Papua New Guinea	0
Contributors	0
Federated States of Micronesia	0
The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2022	0
Rapa Nui	0
About the Artist: Latai Taumoepeau	0
Cook Islands	0
The Kula of the Gospels: Christianity, Magic, and Exchange in the Trobriand Islands	0
The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Islands Perspectives ed. by Robert J Foster and Heather A Horst, and: Money Games: Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town by Anthony J Pickles	0
‘Uvea (Wallis) and Futuna	0
Marshallese Women and Oral Traditions: Navigating a Future for Pacific History	0
Contributors	0
Pitcairn	0
Marshallese Women and Oral Traditions: Navigating a Future for Pacific History	0
"It Will Be Like a Town Here, Things Are Really Coming Up!": Inequality in Village-Based Cruise Ship Tourism in the Trobriand Islands	0
Loimata, The Sweetest Tears dir. by Anna Marbrook	0
Moana Nui Rising: A Response to "Blue-Washing the Colonization and Militarization of 'Our Ocean'"	0
Kai Piha: Nā Loko I'a	0
CHamoru Legends: A Gathering of Stories / Lihenden CHamoru: Rinikohen Hemplo Siha by Teresita Lourdes Perez (review)	0
Navigating CHamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization by Craig Santos Perez (review)	0