Re-crossing a different water: Colonialism and Third Worldism in Fiji

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-130

  Ghosh, Devleena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; COLONIALISM; DECOLONIZATION; DEVELOPING WORLD;

FIJI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33746470281     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143659042000185363     Document Type: Article

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1. D Chakrabarty speaking at a workshop on Subaltern, Multicultural and Indigenous Histories, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 20-21 July 2000.
2. See D Chakrabarty, 'Postcoloniality and the artifice of history: Who speaks for Indian pasts', Representations, 37, 1992.
3. M Kaplan & J Kelly, Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001, p 199.
4. P van der Veer (ed), Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
5. J Carens, 'Democracy and respect for difference: The case of Fiji', University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 1992.
6. Carens, Democracy, p 576.
7. Ibid, p 594.
8. Ibid, p 595.
9. Ibid, p 628.
10. Ibid, p 574.
11. P France, The Charter of the Land: Custom and Colonization in Fiji, London: Oxford University Press, 1969, passim.
12. HJ Rutz, 'Capitalizing on culture: Moral ironies in urban Fiji', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 29, 1987, p 557.
13. Ibid, p 538.
14. M Jolly, 'Custom and the way of the land: Past and present in Vanuatu and Fiji', Oceania, 62, 1992.
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16. Ibid, p 106.
17. See also Brij V Lal, Broken Waves: A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.
18. and Lal, Crossing the Kala Pani: A Documentary History of Indian Indenture in Fiji, Canberra: Division of Pacific & Asian History, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1998.
19. Jolly, 'Custom and the way of the land', p 346.
20. RG Ward, 'Land in Fiji', in BV Lal & Tomasi R Vakatora, Fiji in Transition: Research Papers of the Fiji Constitution Review Commission, Vol 1, Suva: University of the South Pacific, 1997, p 248.
21. JN Kamikamica, 'Fiji native land: Issues and challenges', in Lal & Vakatora, Fiji in Transition, p 259.
22. J Waqanisau, 'Fijians' paramountcy - let's think rationally', undated letter circulated by email by academics at the University of the South Pacific (USP) after the coup in May 2000. I have a hard copy in my possession. This name appears to be a pseudonym and the identity of the writer is unknown to the USP academics who circulated the letter. However, the figures appear to be credible.
23. Letter from a group of unnamed indigenous Fijians circulated on a Fiji email list in June 2000. A hard copy is in my possession.
24. R Robertson, Retreat from exclusion? Identities in post-coup Fiji', in A Haroon Akram-Lodhi (ed), Confronting Fiji's Futures, Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, 2000, p 278.
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26. Ibid.
27. Kaplan & Kelly, Represented Communities, p 6.
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29. Ibid, p 30.
30. Ibid, p 30.
31. Ibid, pp 31-34.
32. Alcoholic drink indigenous to Fiji.
33. J Leckie, 'Women in post-coup Fiji: Negotiating work through old and new realities', in Akram-Lodhi, Confronting Fiji's Futures, pp 178-201.
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35. See also Leckie, 'Women in post-coup Fiji', p 187.
36. Balance, September-October 1997, pp 8-9.
37. Lal, 'Kismet', in Lal, Mr Tulsi's Store, p 200.
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40. Mishra, 'The feudal postcolonial', p 147.
41. Jolly, 'Custom and the way of the land', p 346.
42. RC Pillai, 'Labourer's Lament', in Subramani (ed), The Indo-Fijian Experience, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1979, p 160.
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48. Rutz, 'Occupying the headwaters of tradition'.
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50. Chakrabarty, workshop speech.
51. Subramani, Altering Imagination, Suva: Fiji Writers' Association, University of the South Pacific, 1995.
52. Norton, 'reconciling ethnicity and nation', p 106.
53. These sentiments were expressed in a number of emails and conversations with indigenous Fijians over the latter half of 2000.
54. Kamikamica, 'Fiji native land', pp 259-260.
55. Ibid, p 289.
56. Letter cited in footnote 21. Also interviews with interlocutors Suva S2, T3 and Nadi P4 and L7.
57. An interview with Subramani by V Hereniko, The Contemporary Pacific, 13 (1), 2001, p 184.
58. T Sanadhya, Bhut Len ki katha: Totaram Sanadhya ka Fiji, trans and ed Brij V Lal & Yogendra Yadav, New Delhi: Saraswati Press, 1994.
59. Mishra, 'The feudal postcolonial', pp 150-151.
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61. Kaplan & Kelly, Represented Communities, p 177.
62. The Age, 10 June 2000
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64. Chakrabarty, workshop speech.
65. J Clifford, 'Indigenous articulations', The Contemporary Pacific, 13 (2), 2001, p 468.