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- Title
- 'The Pacific way' as postcolonial discourse : towards a reassessment
- Related
- Journal of Pacific history, Vol. 45, No. 3 (2010), p.297-314
- DOI
- 10.1080/00223344.2010.530810
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Date
- 2010
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
-
169900 Other Studies in Human Society
210300 Historical Studies
- Author/Creator
- Lawson, Stephanie
- Description
- In 2005, an entry entitled 'Pacific Way' appeared in a collection of essays on postcolonial thought. While this seems unremarkable, it invites questions concerning both the Pacific Way idea and the nature of postcolonial critique. This article is especially concerned to examine the specific circumstances in which the term was initially articulated and the precise meaning with which it was imbued. Although the Pacific Way acquired some 'postcolonial' characteristics in subsequent years, it was evidently anything but in its original formulation. Rather, it was a conservative discourse embracing notions of class hierarchy common to elites among both colonisers and colonised. This brings into question the status of the Pacific Way as a postcolonial discourse, and whether postcolonialism's 'anticoloniality' is in fact hospitable to indigenous hegemony, thus undermining its general anti-hegemonic credentials.
- Description
- 18 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 169900 Other Studies in Human Society
- Subject Keyword
- 210300 Historical Studies
- Subject Keyword
- 'Pacific Way'
- Subject Keyword
- Pacific historiography
- Subject Keyword
- postcolonialism
- Subject Keyword
- self-other relations
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Modern History, Politics and International Relations
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/109337
- Identifier
- ISSN:0022-3344
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2010001585
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
