David Taufui Mikato Fa‘avae
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 179696 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Taufui Mikato Fa‘avae |
| NOMBRES | David Taufui Mikato |
| APELLIDO | Fa‘avae |
| FIRMA | FA‘AVAE D T M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6141-961X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Criticality of Pacific Education – The Search for a Transformative Disciplinary Space
This paper is a collective talatalanoa by early to senior career education researchers and scholars seeking to make sense of Pacific education and its trajectory as a critical and transformative sphere within the broader context of education and education research within Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa NZ). The critical stance towards the education of diverse Pacific communities is well established in Aotearoa NZ and reflects ongoing settler‐colon…
From where we stand
It is a rare opportunity for three Pacific Indigenous scholars to gather and discuss Pacific Indigenous oral research methodologies at length. Often, we are weighed down by the bureaucracy of our institutions or working on projects to drive social change. The opportunity for the three of us to gather and engage in a talanoa about how it is that we as Pacific Indigenous academics create and participate in opportunities for oral Pacific Indigenous …
Our Search for Intergenerational Rhythms as Tongan Global Scholars
Our search for collective meaning-making across spaces and places as Tongan global scholars carries intergenerational rhythms. This article is a diasporic collaboration between members of the Tongan Global Scholars Network (TGSN), an online cultural collective drawn together through creatively critical rhythms and a desire to make space for ongoing criticalities through Tongan concepts, knowledge, and approaches. Employing the art of e-talanoa in…
Sacred Vā-Rhythms
This book review is a talanoa (discussion) with Winston Halapua’s 2008 text, Waves of God’s Embrace: Sacred Perspectives from the Ocean. This review is an interpretation and evaluation of the text and Halapua’s narrative musings. Readers are invited to engage with Indigenous concepts and forms of creative criticality, fronting Oceania meaning-making and sense-making through storytelling, poetry, and proverbial or wise sayings. In my review, I emp…
Moana masculinities in the diaspora
Moana masculinities take the form of embodied and performed subjectivities reflecting personal experience, history and context. The concepts of vā and vahaloto provide a lens for unpacking masculinities using a polycentric perspective, exploring the ethical relations and sense-making of power and performance for Pacific men. The ways in which masculinities are configured within and between Moana/Oceanic places and spaces connects the historical i…
Talanoa vā
Indigenous scholars constantly contend with deficit tendencies associated with the value and place of their cultural knowledge and practices within higher education. When gender is imbued through a racialised view of indigeneity or the indigenous scholar, the proposition of ‘other’ and ‘othering’ becomes a struggle of power relations which necessarily shapes the critical encounters in higher education spaces. This article utilises ‘talanoa vā’, a…
Mānava ‘i he Loto Manava
Critical theory and theorising bring social contexts into closer observation and interrogation.Yet, our social worlds and societies are continuously evolving, so how relevant and appropriate are the critical theories developed in the Glocal South, given the dynamic and fluid contextual realities of diasporic Moana communities today?Critical theory and theorising in Te Moananui-nui-ā-Kiwa/Oceania centres 'relationality' in conceptualising and unde…
E–talanoa as an Online Research Method
Talanoa (Moana-centred orality) is a widely used Indigenous Pacific discursive approach within research contexts across the diaspora. In a globalised and technologically enhanced era, the online space continues to shape Moana (Oceania) peoples’ talanoa engagement and communication. e–talanoa in this article is an extension of talanoa research engagement and practice. We unpack the contexts in which e–talanoa is negotiated and made sense, and empl…
Digital Vā
The emergence of the COVID-19 virus has significantly shifted the lives of Pacific families and communities from face-to-face communal settings to digital spaces. While there has been a multitude of opportunities for Pacific people to express themselves in digital spaces, little is known about the impacts of this on social life, including on quality time within families, exposure to misinformation, and the adoption of online addictive behaviours.…
‘Pillars of the colonial institution are like a knowledge prison
For Pacific early career academics (PECA) in Aotearoa, there is a tension between the Indigenous knowledges inherited from our Pacific ancestors and those we have been taught within the western education system. As Pacific educators teaching an increasingly Pacific student-body, we have sought to define our own spaces within the lecture theatre where we can prioritize our knowledges and counter standard didactic western pedagogical practices. Thi…
Responding to the call
Recent provocations by Māori and Pacific/Pasifika academics have called for a collective response to the under-representation of Pacific/Pasifika academics in universities across Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing from Indigenous concepts and frameworks foregrounds Pacific language and ideas as being central to our worldviews and validates the lived realities of Pacific peoples in higher education. We, the authors, collectively respond to Naepi et al.…
Indigenous education within urban contexts and negotiations in the diaspora
Indigenous education within urban contexts is diverse within Oceania. Pacific peoples’ movements in the diaspora, including their educational journeys and responsibilities, are ongoing and fluid. This paper employs talanoa vā, an indigenous Pacific approach to understanding the negotiations of educational processes and practices in urban education contexts across the diaspora of Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, and Aotearoa-New Zealand. We utilize talanoa as …
Surviving academic Whiteness
Critical autoethnographic encounters in the moana
Countless generations of Moana (Oceanic) people relied on ‘wayfinding’ processes in their navigation and communication. As diasporic wayfarers, to’utangata Tonga (generations of Tongan people) continue to encounter New Zealand, Australia, and the US in search of opportunities for their kāinga (extended family). Despite assumptions that Tongan peoples’ sense of connectedness to their traditional culture dissipates as the distance from their homela…
Tatala ‘a e Koloa ‘o e To’utangata Tonga
“Disruption” and “decolonisation” are terms often associated with Indigenous researchers’ intent to validate traditional cultural knowledge and practice in academia. The challenges and complexities in Indigenous researchers’ positionalities within their doctoral research projects are not always openly discussed (Webber, 2009). In this article, I share my personal reflections and observations of the challenges in my doctoral research with Tongan k…
Giving voice to the unheard in higher education
When considering higher education, the voices and experiences of minority researchers are often absent. Within educational research, in particular, the voices and cultural realities of minority teachers are rarely valued and are often ignored. This paper is my attempt to "be heard", particularly in relation to the education of Tongan males in Aotearoa. I am a Tongan teacher-researcher, and, through the autoethnographical approach, I have discover…
Foki kihe tupu'anga
Today I find myself back in the homeland, in the physical, back where my ancestors once walked and talked. In this essay, I unfold stories of migration to highlight the fluid and dynamic nature of such processes evidently shaped by our vā/va’/veitapui, that is, the relations with/within/between people and place(s). I utilize the Tongan approach talaloto, an intimate and sacred practice, to share and interpret my thoughts and feelings about what i…
Talanoa'i ‘A e Talanoa—Talking about Talanoa
Pasifika social science researchers in Pacific contexts are encouraged to use research methods that reflect the lived realities of their participants, rather than reproduce what are seen as Western methods of research. As a Pasifika process, talanoa has become a popular research method, often likened to narrative interviews. It has been defined as an open, informal conversation between people in which they share their stories, thoughts and feelin…
Digital Vā
The emergence of the COVID-19 virus has significantly shifted the lives of Pacific families and communities from face-to-face communal settings to digital spaces. While there has been a multitude of opportunities for Pacific people to express themselves in digital spaces, little is known about the impacts of this on social life, including on quality time within families, exposure to misinformation, and the adoption of online addictive behaviours.…
Indigenous education within urban contexts and negotiations in the diaspora
Indigenous education within urban contexts is diverse within Oceania. Pacific peoples’ movements in the diaspora, including their educational journeys and responsibilities, are ongoing and fluid. This paper employs talanoa vā, an indigenous Pacific approach to understanding the negotiations of educational processes and practices in urban education contexts across the diaspora of Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, and Aotearoa-New Zealand. We utilize talanoa as …
Talanoa'i ‘A e Talanoa—Talking about Talanoa
Pasifika social science researchers in Pacific contexts are encouraged to use research methods that reflect the lived realities of their participants, rather than reproduce what are seen as Western methods of research. As a Pasifika process, talanoa has become a popular research method, often likened to narrative interviews. It has been defined as an open, informal conversation between people in which they share their stories, thoughts and feelin…
Giving voice to the unheard in higher education
When considering higher education, the voices and experiences of minority researchers are often absent. Within educational research, in particular, the voices and cultural realities of minority teachers are rarely valued and are often ignored. This paper is my attempt to "be heard", particularly in relation to the education of Tongan males in Aotearoa. I am a Tongan teacher-researcher, and, through the autoethnographical approach, I have discover…
Foki kihe tupu'anga
Today I find myself back in the homeland, in the physical, back where my ancestors once walked and talked. In this essay, I unfold stories of migration to highlight the fluid and dynamic nature of such processes evidently shaped by our vā/va’/veitapui, that is, the relations with/within/between people and place(s). I utilize the Tongan approach talaloto, an intimate and sacred practice, to share and interpret my thoughts and feelings about what i…
Tatala ‘a e Koloa ‘o e To’utangata Tonga
“Disruption” and “decolonisation” are terms often associated with Indigenous researchers’ intent to validate traditional cultural knowledge and practice in academia. The challenges and complexities in Indigenous researchers’ positionalities within their doctoral research projects are not always openly discussed (Webber, 2009). In this article, I share my personal reflections and observations of the challenges in my doctoral research with Tongan k…
Critical autoethnographic encounters in the moana
Countless generations of Moana (Oceanic) people relied on ‘wayfinding’ processes in their navigation and communication. As diasporic wayfarers, to’utangata Tonga (generations of Tongan people) continue to encounter New Zealand, Australia, and the US in search of opportunities for their kāinga (extended family). Despite assumptions that Tongan peoples’ sense of connectedness to their traditional culture dissipates as the distance from their homela…
‘Pillars of the colonial institution are like a knowledge prison
For Pacific early career academics (PECA) in Aotearoa, there is a tension between the Indigenous knowledges inherited from our Pacific ancestors and those we have been taught within the western education system. As Pacific educators teaching an increasingly Pacific student-body, we have sought to define our own spaces within the lecture theatre where we can prioritize our knowledges and counter standard didactic western pedagogical practices. Thi…
Responding to the call
Recent provocations by Māori and Pacific/Pasifika academics have called for a collective response to the under-representation of Pacific/Pasifika academics in universities across Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing from Indigenous concepts and frameworks foregrounds Pacific language and ideas as being central to our worldviews and validates the lived realities of Pacific peoples in higher education. We, the authors, collectively respond to Naepi et al.…
Indigenous education within urban contexts and negotiations in the diaspora
Indigenous education within urban contexts is diverse within Oceania. Pacific peoples’ movements in the diaspora, including their educational journeys and responsibilities, are ongoing and fluid. This paper employs talanoa vā, an indigenous Pacific approach to understanding the negotiations of educational processes and practices in urban education contexts across the diaspora of Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, and Aotearoa-New Zealand. We utilize talanoa as …
Surviving academic Whiteness
Talanoa vā
Indigenous scholars constantly contend with deficit tendencies associated with the value and place of their cultural knowledge and practices within higher education. When gender is imbued through a racialised view of indigeneity or the indigenous scholar, the proposition of ‘other’ and ‘othering’ becomes a struggle of power relations which necessarily shapes the critical encounters in higher education spaces. This article utilises ‘talanoa vā’, a…
Mānava ‘i he Loto Manava
Critical theory and theorising bring social contexts into closer observation and interrogation.Yet, our social worlds and societies are continuously evolving, so how relevant and appropriate are the critical theories developed in the Glocal South, given the dynamic and fluid contextual realities of diasporic Moana communities today?Critical theory and theorising in Te Moananui-nui-ā-Kiwa/Oceania centres 'relationality' in conceptualising and unde…
E–talanoa as an Online Research Method
Talanoa (Moana-centred orality) is a widely used Indigenous Pacific discursive approach within research contexts across the diaspora. In a globalised and technologically enhanced era, the online space continues to shape Moana (Oceania) peoples’ talanoa engagement and communication. e–talanoa in this article is an extension of talanoa research engagement and practice. We unpack the contexts in which e–talanoa is negotiated and made sense, and empl…
Digital Vā
The emergence of the COVID-19 virus has significantly shifted the lives of Pacific families and communities from face-to-face communal settings to digital spaces. While there has been a multitude of opportunities for Pacific people to express themselves in digital spaces, little is known about the impacts of this on social life, including on quality time within families, exposure to misinformation, and the adoption of online addictive behaviours.…
Moana masculinities in the diaspora
Moana masculinities take the form of embodied and performed subjectivities reflecting personal experience, history and context. The concepts of vā and vahaloto provide a lens for unpacking masculinities using a polycentric perspective, exploring the ethical relations and sense-making of power and performance for Pacific men. The ways in which masculinities are configured within and between Moana/Oceanic places and spaces connects the historical i…
Our Search for Intergenerational Rhythms as Tongan Global Scholars
Our search for collective meaning-making across spaces and places as Tongan global scholars carries intergenerational rhythms. This article is a diasporic collaboration between members of the Tongan Global Scholars Network (TGSN), an online cultural collective drawn together through creatively critical rhythms and a desire to make space for ongoing criticalities through Tongan concepts, knowledge, and approaches. Employing the art of e-talanoa in…
Sacred Vā-Rhythms
This book review is a talanoa (discussion) with Winston Halapua’s 2008 text, Waves of God’s Embrace: Sacred Perspectives from the Ocean. This review is an interpretation and evaluation of the text and Halapua’s narrative musings. Readers are invited to engage with Indigenous concepts and forms of creative criticality, fronting Oceania meaning-making and sense-making through storytelling, poetry, and proverbial or wise sayings. In my review, I emp…
The Criticality of Pacific Education – The Search for a Transformative Disciplinary Space
This paper is a collective talatalanoa by early to senior career education researchers and scholars seeking to make sense of Pacific education and its trajectory as a critical and transformative sphere within the broader context of education and education research within Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa NZ). The critical stance towards the education of diverse Pacific communities is well established in Aotearoa NZ and reflects ongoing settler‐colon…
From where we stand
It is a rare opportunity for three Pacific Indigenous scholars to gather and discuss Pacific Indigenous oral research methodologies at length. Often, we are weighed down by the bureaucracy of our institutions or working on projects to drive social change. The opportunity for the three of us to gather and engage in a talanoa about how it is that we as Pacific Indigenous academics create and participate in opportunities for oral Pacific Indigenous …
Sociology (15 obras) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Indigenous (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (6 obras) · Aotearoa (5 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (5 obras) · Pedagogy (5 obras)