Mandy Treagus
Biographic Data
| ID | 206362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mandy Treagus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mandy |
| FAMILY NAME | Treagus |
| SIGNATURE | TREAGUS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8482-2938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Diasporic (Be)longing
This article explores the multiple contexts behind ‘The Viole(n)t Cat’ by expatriate poet, Sāmoan Dan Taulapapa McMullin, now resident in the US. It is especially concerned with the ways in which the poem crosses national and hemispheric boundaries while remaining embedded in multiple instances of the local and translocal. While the poem begins in Turtle Island, it soon considers the twin islets of Ofu and Olosega in American Sāmoa, places of str…
Fa‘atama
This paper acknowledges that queerness has always existed in the tropics, especially in Sāmoa. In traditional Sāmoan life, there has always been more than two genders. While much attention has been given to fa‘afafine, we seek to raise the visibility of another queer group, fa’atama (formally fa‘atane) or tomboys—Sāmoans assigned female at birth (AFAB), who either identify as masculine, are attracted to females, or both. Not only is this group ma…
Mapping Shadows of the Bight
In August 2023, a collective of arts and humanities scholars undertook a mobile residency on the Far West Coast of South Australia, along the Great Australian Bight. Moving through deeply storied country that is largely marginal and neglected in the cultural and political imaginary, and negotiating our relation to this displacement as settler-colonial scholars with the privilege of mobility, the residency sought creative and critical approaches t…
Recentring Water
Race and Redemption
Review of: Race and Redemption: British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797–1920 , Jane Samson (2017) Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 284 pp., ISBN 978 0 80287 535 8 (pbk), US$50
Flight of the frigate bird
This article outlines the environmental disaster that was phosphate mining on Banaba – or Ocean Island, as it was known to outsiders. The article tracks the tactics used by what became the BPC (British Phosphate Commissioners) in extracting phosphate from the island, resulting in the removal of 90 per cent of its soil and simultaneously alienating Banabans from their land, livelihoods and culture. This process took place over 80 years, finally en…
Social change and masculinities
Understanding social change remains a challenge in the social sciences. This has resonance when considering the continuing significance of gender inequality in Australian society despite decades of political and social reform. Our aim is to elaborate a framework regarding social change which engages with major debates in masculinity studies, with applications beyond gender and masculinity. The potential of favourable spaces for social innovation …
Queer Pacific mobilities
In the poetry of Dan Taulapapa McMullin, the queer body is the decolonial weapon of choice. McMullin identifies as fa’afafine, and is an artist, poet, and film-maker from the Sāmoa Islands who now lives in the USA. In these poems, bodies are located in diverse places but are connected to their Sāmoan origins through story, practice, and memory. This article argues that McMullin’s depiction of a variety of genders, identities, and sexualities, lin…
Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific
Looking Back at Samoa
Samoan Japanese artist Yuki Kihara’s photographic series Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (2013) focuses on sites of current and historical significance in Samoa. In taking on the title of French artist Paul Gauguin’s 1897 work, Kihara signals her desire to engage with the history of representation of the Pacific in Western art through dialogue with Gauguin and the history of colonial photography. Casting herself as a versi…
Schooling the public on boys
This paper explores the salience of the "crisis" in boys' education as it is articulated in Australian print media. We will consider the ways in which this crisis is expressed through a gendered language which simultaneously represents boys as "forgotten" by teaching practices thought to be prioritising girls' learning, and as an equity (disadvantaged) grouping who require specialised teaching methods different from those currently offered within…
Empire Girls
This idea had been described by Mary Wollstonecraft as 'legal prostitution' in A Vindication of the Rights of Men (a, 23), and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (b, 129, 218). The phrase 'legal prostitution' had previously been used by Defoe in Conjugal Lewdness; or, Matrimonial Whoredom (1727) (Wollstonecraft b, 129). It was a common enough concept by the 1890s
Crossing ‘The Beach’
Across the islands of the Pacific during the 19th century, a resignification of the term ‘the beach’ occurred, as it took on a different and very specific meaning. It came to indicate a particular space of contact, where cultures and races mixed, and where trade, missionising and colonising occurred and new subjectivities developed. The figure of the ‘ afakasi (mixed race Samoan) exemplifies many of the contradictions and possibilities of the bea…
Changing the Victorian Subject
She has researched gendered histories
From Whakarewarewa to Oxford
This paper concerns Makereti Papakura , celebrity tourist guide of Rotorua, performer, tour organiser, English landed gentry and ultimately anthropologist. Known as 'Maggie' to tourists who found Makereti a challenge, she was famous enough in the first decade of the twentieth century in Aotearoa/ New Zealand for a letter addressed to 'Maggie, New Zealand' actually to reach her (Makereti Papers). Though still well known in Aotearoa, she is little …
Representing Pacific tattoos
This article questions certain practices in postcolonial criticism, asking whether such criticism is in danger of performing a neo–colonial commodification of texts. In our assertion of subjugated knowledges, do we risk essentializing the cultures from which they come, thereby performing an act of primitivism? It examines two contemporary representations of Pacific tattooing, namely Samoan novelist Sia Figiel’s second novel, They Who Do Not Griev…
Playing Like Ladies
Women's basket ball, which was adapted into the game now known as netball, developed in the late nineteenth-century in the US when education for women was in its early stages. Exercise in these institutions was promoted by early educationists, partly to offset the deleterious effects of 'brain work' for women. While vigorous exercise for women was a contested activity, basket ball and then netball in England were accepted because despite being vi…
Representing Pacific tattoos
This article questions certain practices in postcolonial criticism, asking whether such criticism is in danger of performing a neo–colonial commodification of texts. In our assertion of subjugated knowledges, do we risk essentializing the cultures from which they come, thereby performing an act of primitivism? It examines two contemporary representations of Pacific tattooing, namely Samoan novelist Sia Figiel’s second novel, They Who Do Not Griev…
Playing Like Ladies
Women's basket ball, which was adapted into the game now known as netball, developed in the late nineteenth-century in the US when education for women was in its early stages. Exercise in these institutions was promoted by early educationists, partly to offset the deleterious effects of 'brain work' for women. While vigorous exercise for women was a contested activity, basket ball and then netball in England were accepted because despite being vi…
Changing the Victorian Subject
She has researched gendered histories
Queer Pacific mobilities
In the poetry of Dan Taulapapa McMullin, the queer body is the decolonial weapon of choice. McMullin identifies as fa’afafine, and is an artist, poet, and film-maker from the Sāmoa Islands who now lives in the USA. In these poems, bodies are located in diverse places but are connected to their Sāmoan origins through story, practice, and memory. This article argues that McMullin’s depiction of a variety of genders, identities, and sexualities, lin…
Schooling the public on boys
This paper explores the salience of the "crisis" in boys' education as it is articulated in Australian print media. We will consider the ways in which this crisis is expressed through a gendered language which simultaneously represents boys as "forgotten" by teaching practices thought to be prioritising girls' learning, and as an equity (disadvantaged) grouping who require specialised teaching methods different from those currently offered within…
Mapping Shadows of the Bight
In August 2023, a collective of arts and humanities scholars undertook a mobile residency on the Far West Coast of South Australia, along the Great Australian Bight. Moving through deeply storied country that is largely marginal and neglected in the cultural and political imaginary, and negotiating our relation to this displacement as settler-colonial scholars with the privilege of mobility, the residency sought creative and critical approaches t…
Playing Like Ladies
Women's basket ball, which was adapted into the game now known as netball, developed in the late nineteenth-century in the US when education for women was in its early stages. Exercise in these institutions was promoted by early educationists, partly to offset the deleterious effects of 'brain work' for women. While vigorous exercise for women was a contested activity, basket ball and then netball in England were accepted because despite being vi…
Representing Pacific tattoos
This article questions certain practices in postcolonial criticism, asking whether such criticism is in danger of performing a neo–colonial commodification of texts. In our assertion of subjugated knowledges, do we risk essentializing the cultures from which they come, thereby performing an act of primitivism? It examines two contemporary representations of Pacific tattooing, namely Samoan novelist Sia Figiel’s second novel, They Who Do Not Griev…
From Whakarewarewa to Oxford
This paper concerns Makereti Papakura , celebrity tourist guide of Rotorua, performer, tour organiser, English landed gentry and ultimately anthropologist. Known as 'Maggie' to tourists who found Makereti a challenge, she was famous enough in the first decade of the twentieth century in Aotearoa/ New Zealand for a letter addressed to 'Maggie, New Zealand' actually to reach her (Makereti Papers). Though still well known in Aotearoa, she is little …
Empire Girls
This idea had been described by Mary Wollstonecraft as 'legal prostitution' in A Vindication of the Rights of Men (a, 23), and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (b, 129, 218). The phrase 'legal prostitution' had previously been used by Defoe in Conjugal Lewdness; or, Matrimonial Whoredom (1727) (Wollstonecraft b, 129). It was a common enough concept by the 1890s
Crossing ‘The Beach’
Across the islands of the Pacific during the 19th century, a resignification of the term ‘the beach’ occurred, as it took on a different and very specific meaning. It came to indicate a particular space of contact, where cultures and races mixed, and where trade, missionising and colonising occurred and new subjectivities developed. The figure of the ‘ afakasi (mixed race Samoan) exemplifies many of the contradictions and possibilities of the bea…
Changing the Victorian Subject
She has researched gendered histories
Schooling the public on boys
This paper explores the salience of the "crisis" in boys' education as it is articulated in Australian print media. We will consider the ways in which this crisis is expressed through a gendered language which simultaneously represents boys as "forgotten" by teaching practices thought to be prioritising girls' learning, and as an equity (disadvantaged) grouping who require specialised teaching methods different from those currently offered within…
Looking Back at Samoa
Samoan Japanese artist Yuki Kihara’s photographic series Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (2013) focuses on sites of current and historical significance in Samoa. In taking on the title of French artist Paul Gauguin’s 1897 work, Kihara signals her desire to engage with the history of representation of the Pacific in Western art through dialogue with Gauguin and the history of colonial photography. Casting herself as a versi…
Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific
Race and Redemption
Review of: Race and Redemption: British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797–1920 , Jane Samson (2017) Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 284 pp., ISBN 978 0 80287 535 8 (pbk), US$50
Flight of the frigate bird
This article outlines the environmental disaster that was phosphate mining on Banaba – or Ocean Island, as it was known to outsiders. The article tracks the tactics used by what became the BPC (British Phosphate Commissioners) in extracting phosphate from the island, resulting in the removal of 90 per cent of its soil and simultaneously alienating Banabans from their land, livelihoods and culture. This process took place over 80 years, finally en…
Social change and masculinities
Understanding social change remains a challenge in the social sciences. This has resonance when considering the continuing significance of gender inequality in Australian society despite decades of political and social reform. Our aim is to elaborate a framework regarding social change which engages with major debates in masculinity studies, with applications beyond gender and masculinity. The potential of favourable spaces for social innovation …
Queer Pacific mobilities
In the poetry of Dan Taulapapa McMullin, the queer body is the decolonial weapon of choice. McMullin identifies as fa’afafine, and is an artist, poet, and film-maker from the Sāmoa Islands who now lives in the USA. In these poems, bodies are located in diverse places but are connected to their Sāmoan origins through story, practice, and memory. This article argues that McMullin’s depiction of a variety of genders, identities, and sexualities, lin…
Diasporic (Be)longing
This article explores the multiple contexts behind ‘The Viole(n)t Cat’ by expatriate poet, Sāmoan Dan Taulapapa McMullin, now resident in the US. It is especially concerned with the ways in which the poem crosses national and hemispheric boundaries while remaining embedded in multiple instances of the local and translocal. While the poem begins in Turtle Island, it soon considers the twin islets of Ofu and Olosega in American Sāmoa, places of str…
Fa‘atama
This paper acknowledges that queerness has always existed in the tropics, especially in Sāmoa. In traditional Sāmoan life, there has always been more than two genders. While much attention has been given to fa‘afafine, we seek to raise the visibility of another queer group, fa’atama (formally fa‘atane) or tomboys—Sāmoans assigned female at birth (AFAB), who either identify as masculine, are attracted to females, or both. Not only is this group ma…
Mapping Shadows of the Bight
In August 2023, a collective of arts and humanities scholars undertook a mobile residency on the Far West Coast of South Australia, along the Great Australian Bight. Moving through deeply storied country that is largely marginal and neglected in the cultural and political imaginary, and negotiating our relation to this displacement as settler-colonial scholars with the privilege of mobility, the residency sought creative and critical approaches t…
Recentring Water
History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)