The New Pacific Review = La Nouvelle Revue du Pacifique
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Item Open Access The New Pacific Review = La Nouvelle Revue du Pacifique : Vol. 1, No. 1 : Pacific Identities : Noumea Symposium Proceedings 15-16 July 1999.(Canberra, ACT : Pandanus Books) Noumea Symposium (1999 : The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT)Why a 'New Pacific Review'? And first of all why the Pacific? The answer is obvious. Since the beginning of the 16th century this vast region, thickly sprinkled with multitudes of islands, large and small, even tiny, has been traversed in every direction, and gradually discovered by voyagers, researchers, adventurers or artists fascinated by the diversity and the complexity of the societies which they were discovering,. Their appraisals oscillated between two extremes, idealizations of imaginary paradises or horrified condemnations of barbaric customs which situated these societies at the very beginnings of humanity. And most of these appraisals ended with pessimistic forecasts. Beneath the impact of western civilisation, by the power of its might, the superiority of this wealth and its forms of social organisation, these societies seemed destined to disappear, either physically or culturally, or even both simultaneously. in fact, at the dawn of the 3rd millennium it is noteworthy that this disaster has not happened., this does not mean that Oceanic societies have not been profoundly affected, that the West has not directly interfered in them, right to their very core, in order to bring them into subjection and transform them. But theses societies have not remained passive during this process. Being accustomed to exchange, to mobility, to the borrowing of material goods, rituals and values for centuries they have invented new ways of existing; they have survived. (First paragraph of prologue).Item Open Access The New Pacific Review = La Nouvelle Revue du Pacifique. Vol. 2, No. 1 : L'etat des etats = Pacific Island states today(Canberra, ACT : Pandanus Books, 2003) Tryon, DarrelItem Open Access The New Pacific Review = La Nouvelle Revue du Pacifique : Vol. 3, No. 1 : Proceedings of the 16th Pacific History Association Conference.(Canberra, ACT : The Pacific Centre, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University) Pacific History Association ConferenceThe New Pacific Review/La Nouvelle Revue du Pacifique owes its initial impetus to the vision of the later Pierre Garrigue-Guyonnaud, French Permanent Secretary for the Pacific 1996-2002, who died in Marrakech in March 2006. This volume is dedicated to his memory. Ambassador Garrigue-Guyonnaud masterminded a major international symposium, 'Les Identities du Pacifique/Identity in the Pacific', held at the Tjibaou Centre in New Caledonia in 1999. This symposium, bringing together Anglophone and Francophone scholars from all around the Pacific, followed the successful French-Australian colloquium, 'Changing Identities in the Pacific at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century', held at the Asutralian Embassy in Paris in 1997. The proceedings of the symposium held at the Tjibaou Centre constituted the first volume of the New Pacific Review/La Nouvelle Revue du Pacifique (2000). First paragraph of preface).Item Open Access The New Pacific Review = La Nouvelle Revue du Pacifique, Vol. 4, No. 2 : New Caledonia and Melanesian Unity.(Canberra, ACT : The Pacific Centre, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University) International Symposium on New Calendonia (2008 : Noumea)New Caledonia and Melanesian Unity is a focused collection of contributions by leading French Pacific, Pacific Islander and Australian scholars, covering a large number of disciplines, all concerned with the position and role of New Caledonia as a Melanesian country, both internally and as an island state in the Southwest Pacific, along with Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji. The publication of an edited English language version of La Nouvelle-Caledonie pour /'integration melanesienne brings current French research within the purview of Anglophone readers, in the spirit of the Assises de la Recherche Frarn;aise dans le Pacifique, which took place in 2004.