Introduction: Communities Acting for Sustainability in the Pacific

Anu Bissoonauth; Rowena Ward

doi:10.5130/portal.v14i2.5610

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Published: Oct 5, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/portal.v14i2.5610

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Sustainability, Pacific, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea

Anu Bissoonauth

University of Wollongong

Rowena Ward

University of Wollongong

Abstract

This special issue of PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies emerged from discussions about the need to focus research on the diversity of the Pacific and the sustainability of Pacific peoples and communities for future generations. The issue brings together articles by researchers from Australia and New Caledonia with interests in sustainability from the disciplines of linguistics, cultural studies, social science and history in and across the Pacific region. The papers are drawn primarily from presentations at a symposium on ‘Pacific communities acting for sustainability,’ held at the University of Wollongong in July 2016, which involved academics from Australia and New Caledonia.

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Vol. 14 No. 2 (2017): Communities Acting for Sustainability in the Pacific

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Communities Acting for Sustainability in the Pacific Special Issue July 2017 (Peer Reviewed)

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Author Biographies

Anu Bissoonauth, University of Wollongong

Anu Bissoonauth is Senior Lecturer in French in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong. Her research interests include societal multilingualism with particular focus on socio-cultural, political and language issues in multilingual creolophone societies, where French competes with local languages and global English.

Rowena Ward, University of Wollongong

Dr Rowena Ward is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong. Dr Ward’s research interests include the internment and repatriation of Japanese civilians from New Caledonia and the British colonies in the Pacific transferred to Australia for internment. Dr Ward is presently working on projects focussing on the internment and repatriation of Japanese civilians resident across South East Asia in India during World War II and the Japanese women who lived in Korea post-August 1945. Dr Ward has also published on the use of Japanese language in the workplace by graduates.

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Anu Bissoonauth, University of Wollongong

Rowena Ward, University of Wollongong