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Australia Metro Map

editor — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:36:59 +0000

Picturing the Pacific How has the Pacific been pictured over the centuries of colonial expansions into the region? Centuries of negative colonial perceptions of Oceanian art-forms as frozen in time have the effect of uniting Pacific peoples. Since French explorer Dumont d’Urville problematically divided Oceania into three ethno-geographical zones ofPolynesia’ (many islands), Micronesia’ (small islands) and Melanesia’ (black islands), the categories have been contested as arbitrary and racially-based by scholars such as Thomas and Losche (1999) and Jolly (2007, 2008). Micronesia’s tiny, northern islands became prominent in the Pacific War and recently through rising sea levels, but the Pacific dominating

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Melbourne Subway Map

editor — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:35:44 +0000

Images of static indigeneity (and by implication, vulnerability) have been imposed upon Oceania by successive waves of colonialism (Thomas 2011) and are challenged by Pacific artists, writers, poets, performing artists and cultural historians through processes of reclaiming agency and relevance across wider global communities. Indeed, the myriad cultures, languages and histories ofthis region have witnessed extensive movements ofpeoples, trade and cultural interchanges across vast distances over millennia. With Pacific roots stretching back at least to ancient Austronesian voyages from Taiwan (5,000BC to 2,500BC) (Bellwood 2007), Oceanians have long identified with global journeying, of enlarging their world’ (Armstrong 2003). Not only

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