Kalissa Alexeyeff
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 75428 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kalissa Alexeyeff |
| NOMBRES | Kalissa |
| APELLIDO | Alexeyeff |
| FIRMA | ALEXEYEFF K |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2033-4334 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Response to a scandal
In 2018, a global media scandal erupted, in which Oxfam, one of the largest and most respected international development non-government organizations, was accused of covering up incidents of its staff engaging sex workers in Haiti following the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The scandal sparked widespread public condemnation of the development and humanitarian sectors for their complicity in the sexual exploitation and abuse of Haitian se…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation
Cinderella of the south seas? Virtuous victims, empowerment and other fables of development feminism
Is Gender-Based Violence a Social Norm? Rethinking Power in a Popular Development Intervention
Changing social norms has become the preferred approach in global efforts to prevent gender-based violence (GBV). In this article, we trace the rise of social norms within GBV-related policy and practice and their transformation from social processes that exist in the world to beliefs that exist in the minds of individuals. The analytic framework that underpins social norms approaches has been subject to ongoing critical revision but continues to…
Island Time
A Cook Islander who grew up in South Auckland told me that her primary school teacher once asked the class: ‘What percentage of the New Zealand population do you think is Pākehā, Māori and Pacific
Heterosexuality, Heteronormative
Heterosexuality is the expression of sexual desire and orientation toward a person of the opposite biological sex. It refers to emotional attachments, sexual acts and practices, and a sense of identity. Since the 1990s, the term “heteronormativity” has gained currency, highlighting those aspects of social life beyond heterosexual erotic practice. Heteronormativity is a concept that aims to illustrate how social institutions and policy, ranging fr…
Sexuality
Sexuality is a complex amalgam of drives, desires, practices, and identities. Across the social sciences, sexuality has come to be understood first and foremost as socially constructed; even the most intimate and private acts are shaped by social norms that inform ideas about reproduction, kinship, love, and pleasure. Anthropology has been at the forefront of recording how sexuality is organized in specific locales and increasingly shaped by macr…
Regulating Cultural Performances in Oceania
This paper explores a number of tensions around claims of rights over various aspects of cultural performance with a particular focus on the Cook Islands. We discuss the historical context of these tensions and trace the way in which certain anxieties and agendas have led to demands for, and the realisation of, new laws over cultural performances, most particularly the Copyright Act 2013 and the Traditional Knowledge Act 2013. We then discuss how…
Touring Pacific Cultures
Tourism is vital to the economies of most Pacific nations and as such is an important site for the meaningful production of shared and disputed cultural values and practices. This is especially the case when tourism intersects with other important arenas for cultural production, both directly and indirectly. Touring Pacific Cultures captures the central importance of tourism
Gender on the Edge
Transnational anthropology
Collective Creativity
Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific Katherine Giuffre Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2009 xvii, 163 pp., 1 map, 17 figures, 6 tables, appendix, glossary, bibli
Turning the Tune
Erotic Triangles
Native Men Remade
Travelling Parties
As in many Polynesian communities Cook Islander social networks are truly transnational. In 2006 only 12,000 Cook Islanders lived within the nation-state, approximately 58,000 Cook Islanders live in New Zealand and an estimated 8,000 in Australia (Cook Islands Statistics 2006; Statistics New Zealand 2006). Familial and community relationships are maintained through frequent phone calls, emails and travel back to the home islands for important occ…
Neoliberalism, Mobility and Cook Islands Men in Transit
From the 1990s, neoliberalism has been vigorously promoted by aid agencies operating in the Cook Islands. The solution to the country's economic problems has been sought in the privatisation of government assets and services and the development of free‐market principles. Social Impact Assessment reports of these reforms have included information on their effect on women and children under the heading of ‘gender’; men, however, are notably absent …
Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands
Male to female cross-dressing and performing have a long indigenous history in the Cook Islands. In recent years, Western-style drag shows have also been included in the Cook Islands cross-dressing repertoire. This article takes the highly cosmopolitan vehicle of the drag show and uses it to track the relationship between local and global models of gender and sexuality. It examines ways in which the iconography of domesticity and motherhood has b…
Are You Being Served? Sex, Humour and Globalisation in the Cook Islands
This paper examines how popular jokes about White women and their sexuality are utilised by Cook Islanders to negotiate relationships with outsiders, particularly Western tourists. These jokes serve to unsettle tourist images of erotic paradise populated with welcoming island women and, further, offer a humorous commentary on the inequities of global capitalism
Love Food
This paper analyses the dynamics of food exchange among Cook Islanders. The majority of Cook Islanders live abroad (primarily in New Zealand and Australia), familial and community relationships are maintained by frequent visits to and from the Cook Islands. For many Cook Islanders, the difference between home and abroad is signified through food. Its lack in New Zealand is contrasted with the bounty of home, bounty of food, and the bounty of sust…
Sea breeze
This paper examines the dynamics of Cook Islands popular music, most commonly referred to as ‘island music’. Among Cook Islands communities at home and abroad, island music is performed at informal gatherings, at nightclubs and bars. It is also a central component of large functions such as weddings and island fundraising events. String bands—who perform island music—undertake performance tours through New Zealand, the Cook Islands and French Pol…
Dragging Drag
Kia Orana day is an annual event on the island of Aitutaki. It consists of performances from a number of government departments to an audience of locals and the occasional tourist. The Kia Orana day described here featured a drag show by the Ministry of Outer Islands Development. Drag shows are prevalent in the Cook Islands and they are performed by both ‘heterosexual’ and ‘homosexual’ men. This paper explores some of the reasons for their popula…
Dragging Drag
Kia Orana day is an annual event on the island of Aitutaki. It consists of performances from a number of government departments to an audience of locals and the occasional tourist. The Kia Orana day described here featured a drag show by the Ministry of Outer Islands Development. Drag shows are prevalent in the Cook Islands and they are performed by both 'heterosexual' and 'homosexual' men. This paper explores some of the reasons for their popula…
Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands
Male to female cross-dressing and performing have a long indigenous history in the Cook Islands. In recent years, Western-style drag shows have also been included in the Cook Islands cross-dressing repertoire. This article takes the highly cosmopolitan vehicle of the drag show and uses it to track the relationship between local and global models of gender and sexuality. It examines ways in which the iconography of domesticity and motherhood has b…
Is Gender-Based Violence a Social Norm? Rethinking Power in a Popular Development Intervention
Changing social norms has become the preferred approach in global efforts to prevent gender-based violence (GBV). In this article, we trace the rise of social norms within GBV-related policy and practice and their transformation from social processes that exist in the world to beliefs that exist in the minds of individuals. The analytic framework that underpins social norms approaches has been subject to ongoing critical revision but continues to…
Touring Pacific Cultures
Tourism is vital to the economies of most Pacific nations and as such is an important site for the meaningful production of shared and disputed cultural values and practices. This is especially the case when tourism intersects with other important arenas for cultural production, both directly and indirectly. Touring Pacific Cultures captures the central importance of tourism
Sea breeze
This paper examines the dynamics of Cook Islands popular music, most commonly referred to as ‘island music’. Among Cook Islands communities at home and abroad, island music is performed at informal gatherings, at nightclubs and bars. It is also a central component of large functions such as weddings and island fundraising events. String bands—who perform island music—undertake performance tours through New Zealand, the Cook Islands and French Pol…
Cinderella of the south seas? Virtuous victims, empowerment and other fables of development feminism
Response to a scandal
In 2018, a global media scandal erupted, in which Oxfam, one of the largest and most respected international development non-government organizations, was accused of covering up incidents of its staff engaging sex workers in Haiti following the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The scandal sparked widespread public condemnation of the development and humanitarian sectors for their complicity in the sexual exploitation and abuse of Haitian se…
Island Time
A Cook Islander who grew up in South Auckland told me that her primary school teacher once asked the class: ‘What percentage of the New Zealand population do you think is Pākehā, Māori and Pacific
Erotic Triangles
Are You Being Served? Sex, Humour and Globalisation in the Cook Islands
This paper examines how popular jokes about White women and their sexuality are utilised by Cook Islanders to negotiate relationships with outsiders, particularly Western tourists. These jokes serve to unsettle tourist images of erotic paradise populated with welcoming island women and, further, offer a humorous commentary on the inequities of global capitalism
Dragging Drag
Kia Orana day is an annual event on the island of Aitutaki. It consists of performances from a number of government departments to an audience of locals and the occasional tourist. The Kia Orana day described here featured a drag show by the Ministry of Outer Islands Development. Drag shows are prevalent in the Cook Islands and they are performed by both ‘heterosexual’ and ‘homosexual’ men. This paper explores some of the reasons for their popula…
Dragging Drag
Kia Orana day is an annual event on the island of Aitutaki. It consists of performances from a number of government departments to an audience of locals and the occasional tourist. The Kia Orana day described here featured a drag show by the Ministry of Outer Islands Development. Drag shows are prevalent in the Cook Islands and they are performed by both 'heterosexual' and 'homosexual' men. This paper explores some of the reasons for their popula…
Love Food
This paper analyses the dynamics of food exchange among Cook Islanders. The majority of Cook Islanders live abroad (primarily in New Zealand and Australia), familial and community relationships are maintained by frequent visits to and from the Cook Islands. For many Cook Islanders, the difference between home and abroad is signified through food. Its lack in New Zealand is contrasted with the bounty of home, bounty of food, and the bounty of sust…
Sea breeze
This paper examines the dynamics of Cook Islands popular music, most commonly referred to as ‘island music’. Among Cook Islands communities at home and abroad, island music is performed at informal gatherings, at nightclubs and bars. It is also a central component of large functions such as weddings and island fundraising events. String bands—who perform island music—undertake performance tours through New Zealand, the Cook Islands and French Pol…
Neoliberalism, Mobility and Cook Islands Men in Transit
From the 1990s, neoliberalism has been vigorously promoted by aid agencies operating in the Cook Islands. The solution to the country's economic problems has been sought in the privatisation of government assets and services and the development of free‐market principles. Social Impact Assessment reports of these reforms have included information on their effect on women and children under the heading of ‘gender’; men, however, are notably absent …
Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands
Male to female cross-dressing and performing have a long indigenous history in the Cook Islands. In recent years, Western-style drag shows have also been included in the Cook Islands cross-dressing repertoire. This article takes the highly cosmopolitan vehicle of the drag show and uses it to track the relationship between local and global models of gender and sexuality. It examines ways in which the iconography of domesticity and motherhood has b…
Are You Being Served? Sex, Humour and Globalisation in the Cook Islands
This paper examines how popular jokes about White women and their sexuality are utilised by Cook Islanders to negotiate relationships with outsiders, particularly Western tourists. These jokes serve to unsettle tourist images of erotic paradise populated with welcoming island women and, further, offer a humorous commentary on the inequities of global capitalism
Travelling Parties
As in many Polynesian communities Cook Islander social networks are truly transnational. In 2006 only 12,000 Cook Islanders lived within the nation-state, approximately 58,000 Cook Islanders live in New Zealand and an estimated 8,000 in Australia (Cook Islands Statistics 2006; Statistics New Zealand 2006). Familial and community relationships are maintained through frequent phone calls, emails and travel back to the home islands for important occ…
Native Men Remade
Turning the Tune
Erotic Triangles
Collective Creativity
Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific Katherine Giuffre Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2009 xvii, 163 pp., 1 map, 17 figures, 6 tables, appendix, glossary, bibli
Transnational anthropology
Gender on the Edge
Regulating Cultural Performances in Oceania
This paper explores a number of tensions around claims of rights over various aspects of cultural performance with a particular focus on the Cook Islands. We discuss the historical context of these tensions and trace the way in which certain anxieties and agendas have led to demands for, and the realisation of, new laws over cultural performances, most particularly the Copyright Act 2013 and the Traditional Knowledge Act 2013. We then discuss how…
Touring Pacific Cultures
Tourism is vital to the economies of most Pacific nations and as such is an important site for the meaningful production of shared and disputed cultural values and practices. This is especially the case when tourism intersects with other important arenas for cultural production, both directly and indirectly. Touring Pacific Cultures captures the central importance of tourism
Heterosexuality, Heteronormative
Heterosexuality is the expression of sexual desire and orientation toward a person of the opposite biological sex. It refers to emotional attachments, sexual acts and practices, and a sense of identity. Since the 1990s, the term “heteronormativity” has gained currency, highlighting those aspects of social life beyond heterosexual erotic practice. Heteronormativity is a concept that aims to illustrate how social institutions and policy, ranging fr…
Sexuality
Sexuality is a complex amalgam of drives, desires, practices, and identities. Across the social sciences, sexuality has come to be understood first and foremost as socially constructed; even the most intimate and private acts are shaped by social norms that inform ideas about reproduction, kinship, love, and pleasure. Anthropology has been at the forefront of recording how sexuality is organized in specific locales and increasingly shaped by macr…
Island Time
A Cook Islander who grew up in South Auckland told me that her primary school teacher once asked the class: ‘What percentage of the New Zealand population do you think is Pākehā, Māori and Pacific
Cinderella of the south seas? Virtuous victims, empowerment and other fables of development feminism
Is Gender-Based Violence a Social Norm? Rethinking Power in a Popular Development Intervention
Changing social norms has become the preferred approach in global efforts to prevent gender-based violence (GBV). In this article, we trace the rise of social norms within GBV-related policy and practice and their transformation from social processes that exist in the world to beliefs that exist in the minds of individuals. The analytic framework that underpins social norms approaches has been subject to ongoing critical revision but continues to…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation
Response to a scandal
In 2018, a global media scandal erupted, in which Oxfam, one of the largest and most respected international development non-government organizations, was accused of covering up incidents of its staff engaging sex workers in Haiti following the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake. The scandal sparked widespread public condemnation of the development and humanitarian sectors for their complicity in the sexual exploitation and abuse of Haitian se…
Sociology (19 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (12 obras) · Gender Studies (11 obras) · History (10 obras) · Human sexuality (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Anthropology (6 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Art (5 obras)