بحرنا من الجزر (Our Sea of Islands)

مقدمة

Hauʻofa published the essay in 1993 in “A New Oceania: Rediscovering Our Sea of Islands”, a volume he edited with Eric Waddell and Vijay Naidu at the University of the South Pacific; it was reprinted in The Contemporary Pacific in 1994. He describes how he had himself shared and taught the view of the islands as tiny, poor and isolated, and how this view, common among economists and planners, condemned Islanders to dependency and left his students with a sense of hopelessness. Against it he recalls the voyaging, trade and kinship that once linked Oceania across thousands of kilometres and the networks of migration and exchange that link it today. “Oceania” in this sense is a world of people connected with each other, not a set of small territories. The essay became a much-cited text of Pacific studies and a point of reference for Pacific art and literature.

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• المحيط فينا (The Ocean in Us)1998 · إيبيلي هاوعوفا

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• 1998المحيط فينا (The Ocean in Us)