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Identities In Transition: South Pacific, Paul Sharrad
Identities In Transition: South Pacific, Paul Sharrad
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Surveys the history of fiction production in the South Pacific as a process of creating new identities as print culture impinges upon oral traditions.
Rethinking Sexual Citizenship: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Vera C. Mackie
Rethinking Sexual Citizenship: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Vera C. Mackie
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The term 'sexual citizenship' was largely developed in the Anglophone capitalist liberal democracies of the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The concept is thus inflected by broader understandings of politics in these places. In this article, the author first considers the specificities of 'sexuality' and 'citizenship' in these Anglophone capitalist liberal democracies. She argues that we need to provincialize these local understandings, for configurations of sexuality and citizenship in the UK, North America, New Zealand or Australia are just as contingent and locally specific as they are in the Asia-Pacific region. She then considers whether the term …