Living Lexicon Terms
Multimodal literatures
What is: a text that combines two or more modes
Wansolwara
What is: One ocean, one people. Or One Salt Water. (In what context might this term be used?)
The name of the archive we used for the Digital Taonga assignment
Digital Pasifik
Ask Bonnie
"Climate change is colonising the Pacific"
Who is Teresia Teaiwa?
Mis-/disinformation
Define according to terms relevant for digital Oceania
Vā/Va
Relational space/ space of relations (can be applied to the ocean, the digital, and more).
One of the poems we read during this course
Check with Bonnie
A reason for close reading in this course
So many, many reasons
Na Viro
Who is Gina Cole?
Decolonisation
What are: diverse, ongoing practices of unsettling colonisation, and who frame that unsettling as a process, not as an end destination. More specifically, as Kanaka Maoli scholar Hokulani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez put it, when challenging how colonial narratives portray Hawai‘i, “decolonization describes material practices that have arisen in response to the myriad forms imperialism and colonisation have taken … It includes, but is not limited to, the processes and practices of resistance, refusal, and dismantling of the political, economic, social, and spiritual structures constructed by colonisers” (4-5).
Bonus points if the responder can differentiate between decolonisation, postcolonialism, and the anticolonial
Pasifikafuturism
Gina Cole: “science fiction stories written by Pasifika authors featuring Pasifika characters”
“The writing and publication of Pasifikafuturism is one way to engage in anti-colonial mindscapes which embody the spirit of struggle and survival for Indigenous peoples in the Pacific.”
A text that discusses polygenesis
Teresia Teaiwa, 'What Remains to be Seen: Reclaiming the Visual Roots of Pacific Literature' (2010): polygenesis= "originating from many separate germs." Basically, the idea that storytelling and literature in Oceania originates from many different areas (she particularly focuses on the visual rather than the oral)
Something Bonnie/ another scholar/ writer we have read in the course has said about citation
Ask Bonnie
"Writing while colonised"
Who is Alice Te Punga Somerville?
Trans-Indigenous
A way to emphasize relationships among Indigenous peoples and the role of literature in fostering those relationships. Allen reads Indigenous literatures through this “trans” lens to honour “the specificity of the Indigenous local while remaining always cognizant of the complexity of the relevant Indigenous global.” (Trans-Indigenous, xix)
“together (yet) distinct” (xiii, original emphasis). His approach reads Indigenous literatures and art in terms of their kinships with each other, and also applies to methods of talking about potential solidarities, coalitions, and kinships between worldwide Indigenous peoples that do not erase local particularities.
Digital/ data colonialism
A text that discusses the use of hashtags and Poly Twitter
What is: Lana Lopesi, “Safety in Numbers: Poly Twitter and Carving Out Digital Space” (2016)
Something Bonnie (or a scholar we read in this course) has said about definitions of literature/ the literary
So many possibilities!
He wrote some AI poems
Sovereignty
What is: (Quick gloss) A community getting to decide what is right for themselves based on their own terms.
Digital Humanities
What is: Interdisciplinary; studies how digital technologies shape and are shaped by society (not just online technologies either!)
A text that pointed out that translation is political
What is: Detours (Aikau and Gonzalez) or "Writing While Colonised" (Alice Te Punga Somerville)
My office
What is von Zedlitz 909?
One of our guest speakers for workshop before break
Who is Stacey Kokaua-Balfour or Hamish Balfour