Teaching and learning feminisms with Pacific Islanders

An Emotional Journey

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4882486
AutoresDomenica Gisella Calabrò (University of the South Pacific), Sonia Palmieri (0000-0001-9925-4745, Australian National University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen34
Número7
Páginas834-846
Fecha de publicación2024-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09614524.2024.2332263
OpenAlexW4396238244
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas32

This paper is a feminist reflection of our experience teaching and learning feminisms with Pacific Islanders. We take as a starting point that feminism itself is encased in emotion. In the Pacific, some antagonise the term “feminism” as a foreign imposition and a “threat” to Pacific cultures. To others, feminism instils hope in the context of egalitarian aspirations framed within a development discourse. Some cautiously engage with feminist values, others embrace the notion passionately, generating multiple Pacific feminisms. Indirectly but instinctively, our approach to the teaching of feminism in this context has been to embark with students on a journey of experience and idea sharing and view it as an emotional journey. Acknowledging our positionalities, with their commonalities and differences, we examine the sentiments towards feminism embedded in postcolonial dynamics, as they manifest in our classrooms, and consider strategies for decolonial pedagogies of feminism

Asia pacific · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Pacific islanders · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development