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Our Sea of Islands (Nasze morze wysp)
Esej odrzucający opis Wysp Pacyfiku jako maleńkich, odizolowanych i zależnych: widziana przez pryzmat historii żeglugi ich ludów i obecnych sieci migracji i wymiany, Oceania jest „morzem wysp”, a nie wyspami daleko na pełnym morzu.
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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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