{"id":36067,"date":"2014-03-20T02:45:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T02:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36067"},"modified":"2014-03-20T02:45:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T02:45:33","slug":"being-nesian-pacific-islander-identity-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36067","title":{"rendered":"Being \u201cNesian\u201d: Pacific Islander Identity in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/cp.2014.0013\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Being \u201cNesian\u201d: Pacific Islander Identity in Australia<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/contemporary_pacific\" target=\"_blank\">The Contemporary Pacific<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/contemporary_pacific\/toc\/cp.26.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 26, Number 1<\/a>, 2014<br \/>\npages 126-154<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/cp.2014.0013\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/cp.2014.0013<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/socialscience.uq.edu.au\/dr-kirsten-mcgavin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kirsten McGavin<\/strong><\/a>, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of Queensland, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pacific Islanders in Australia use the terms \u201cIslander\u201d and \u201cPacific Islander\u201d in many ways and in different circumstances to define themselves and others. Through invoking discourses including these terms, Pacific Islanders both consciously draw on \u201cpanethnicity\u201d and subconsciously strengthen and support their localized identities. In this way, Pacific Islanders blur the ethno-cultural and sociopolitical boundaries that traditionally separate groups with connections across a diverse range of countries. Indeed, diasporic settings give rise to transnationalist sentiment and actions and serve to strengthen panethnic identity. Using insider and auto-anthropology and ethnographic research techniques, I draw on my experiences as an Australian of Pacific Islander descent and use examples drawn from my involvement in formalized community groups, cultural events, and social functions. In doing so, I argue that the expression of Islander and Pacific Islander identity is entwined with ideas about \u201crace,\u201d place, stereotypes, and behavior that highlight the dynamic ethnogenesis of this group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being \u201cNesian\u201d: Pacific Islander Identity in Australia The Contemporary Pacific Volume 26, Number 1, 2014 pages 126-154 DOI: 10.1353\/cp.2014.0013 Kirsten McGavin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology University of Queensland, Australia Pacific Islanders in Australia use the terms \u201cIslander\u201d and \u201cPacific Islander\u201d in many ways and in different circumstances to define themselves and others. Through invoking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,24,8,4405],"tags":[17100,17101,17099],"class_list":["post-36067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-contemporary-pacific","tag-kirsten-mcgavin","tag-the-contemporary-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}