Joseph D Foukona
Biographic Data
| ID | 219945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph D Foukona |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph D |
| FAMILY NAME | Foukona |
| SIGNATURE | FOUKONA J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1110-932X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Using kastom evidence in court: A legal and archaeological review of the intersection between Indigenous cultural heritage, land ownership, and law in Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands’ plural legal system, in which customary law operates in parallel with common law, and its practice and effects on society have drawn scholarly attention in spaces of legal studies, policy, economics, and state governance. An area that remains understudied is the dynamic nature in which landowners use Indigenous cultural heritage such as ancestral sites or genealogies as kastom evidence in courts. We explore this intersection thro…
Unsettling Legal Imperialism and Cultivating Homegrown Law: Why Law Schools Need Pacific Studies
Legal scholarship has often been deeply informed by the study of Pacific legal systems, but in law schools across the world there has been very little interest in teaching about, let alone learning from, the region and its people. Scholars and insights from the region remain grossly underrepresented and pushed to the margins of legal scholarship, and this silencing reproduces the underrepresentation of Pasifika people in law schools, the legal pr…
Introduction – In Our Own Words: Histories in Languages of Oceania
Truth Telling and Reconciliation in the Pacific: Solomon Islands' Experience
Truth-telling was necessary as part of Solomon Islands' reconciliation and peace-building process following the violent conflict between 1998 and 2003. When Solomon Islands gained constitutional independence from Great Britain in 1978, the architects of independence did not anticipate that the country would be embroiled in a violent conflict 20 years later. This conflict left the national economy in ruins, the nation-state on the verge of disinte…
Re-storying Law and Development in Oceania
The Pacific is vast, and its people and places woven into a rich array of cultures, ecologies, and legal systems. However, development discourses emanating from Global North institutions consistently portray the region in homogenised terms, as a series of small, underdeveloped, and under-governed islands dotting an empty expanse of ocean. This chapter draws on a rich vein of Pacific scholarship to highlight the effects of these dominant portrayal…
Property and the State or ‘The Folly of Torrens: A Comparative Perspective
Australian lawyers often extol the virtues of the Torrens system as a means to secure property in land. Yet, the comparative evidence of benefits is mixed and context-dependent, particularly in terms of the nature, provenance and capacity of the state. This article analyses ways in which positivist land laws, including Torrens systems of title by registration, create legal understandings of property that are tied closely to projections or assumpt…
Understanding Oceania: Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with The Australian National University
This book is inspired by the University of the South Pacific, the leading institution of higher education in the Pacific Islands region. Founded in 1968, USP has expanded the intellectual horizons of generations of students from its 12 member countries-Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu-and
Urban Land in Solomon Islands: Powers of Exclusion and Counter‐Exclusion
Kastom, property and ideology: Land transformations in Melanesia
The relationship between customary land tenure and 'modern' forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the 'Spearhead' states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new 'land rush' or 'land grab' in developing countries
The Culture of Agreement Making in Solomon Islands
Current growing interest in mining in Solomon Islands warrants critical reflection on the centrality of natural resources in the post‐colonial formation of state‐society interactions, in particular, as they have been shaped by decades of forestry resources extraction. Since independence in 1978 waves of Malaysian, Taiwanese, Korean, Australian and Japanese investors have developed natural resource extraction projects. Not only have these projects…
Urban Land in Honiara: Strategies and Rights to the City
Urban Honiara is increasingly a space in which the poor and even the ‘middle class’ are excluded from both market and regulatory orders. This paper discusses the strategies that urban residents employ to access land in the face of these multiple exclusions. Drawing upon the work of Henri Lefebvre and recent case studies of urban spaces in the global south, I apply the ‘right to the city’ framework as a heuristic with which to analyse these strate…
Looking beyond Ramsi: Solomon Islanders’ perspectives on their future
This book is a collection of papers presented at a seminar on the 10th anniversary of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), held at the Forum Fisheries Agency in Honiara in 20
Kastom, property and ideology: Land transformations in Melanesia
The relationship between customary land tenure and 'modern' forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the 'Spearhead' states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new 'land rush' or 'land grab' in developing countries
Urban Land in Honiara: Strategies and Rights to the City
Urban Honiara is increasingly a space in which the poor and even the ‘middle class’ are excluded from both market and regulatory orders. This paper discusses the strategies that urban residents employ to access land in the face of these multiple exclusions. Drawing upon the work of Henri Lefebvre and recent case studies of urban spaces in the global south, I apply the ‘right to the city’ framework as a heuristic with which to analyse these strate…
Introduction – In Our Own Words: Histories in Languages of Oceania
Truth Telling and Reconciliation in the Pacific: Solomon Islands' Experience
Truth-telling was necessary as part of Solomon Islands' reconciliation and peace-building process following the violent conflict between 1998 and 2003. When Solomon Islands gained constitutional independence from Great Britain in 1978, the architects of independence did not anticipate that the country would be embroiled in a violent conflict 20 years later. This conflict left the national economy in ruins, the nation-state on the verge of disinte…
Urban Land in Honiara: Strategies and Rights to the City
Urban Honiara is increasingly a space in which the poor and even the ‘middle class’ are excluded from both market and regulatory orders. This paper discusses the strategies that urban residents employ to access land in the face of these multiple exclusions. Drawing upon the work of Henri Lefebvre and recent case studies of urban spaces in the global south, I apply the ‘right to the city’ framework as a heuristic with which to analyse these strate…
Looking beyond Ramsi: Solomon Islanders’ perspectives on their future
This book is a collection of papers presented at a seminar on the 10th anniversary of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), held at the Forum Fisheries Agency in Honiara in 20
The Culture of Agreement Making in Solomon Islands
Current growing interest in mining in Solomon Islands warrants critical reflection on the centrality of natural resources in the post‐colonial formation of state‐society interactions, in particular, as they have been shaped by decades of forestry resources extraction. Since independence in 1978 waves of Malaysian, Taiwanese, Korean, Australian and Japanese investors have developed natural resource extraction projects. Not only have these projects…
Urban Land in Solomon Islands: Powers of Exclusion and Counter‐Exclusion
Kastom, property and ideology: Land transformations in Melanesia
The relationship between customary land tenure and 'modern' forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the 'Spearhead' states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new 'land rush' or 'land grab' in developing countries
Property and the State or ‘The Folly of Torrens: A Comparative Perspective
Australian lawyers often extol the virtues of the Torrens system as a means to secure property in land. Yet, the comparative evidence of benefits is mixed and context-dependent, particularly in terms of the nature, provenance and capacity of the state. This article analyses ways in which positivist land laws, including Torrens systems of title by registration, create legal understandings of property that are tied closely to projections or assumpt…
Understanding Oceania: Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with The Australian National University
This book is inspired by the University of the South Pacific, the leading institution of higher education in the Pacific Islands region. Founded in 1968, USP has expanded the intellectual horizons of generations of students from its 12 member countries-Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu-and
Re-storying Law and Development in Oceania
The Pacific is vast, and its people and places woven into a rich array of cultures, ecologies, and legal systems. However, development discourses emanating from Global North institutions consistently portray the region in homogenised terms, as a series of small, underdeveloped, and under-governed islands dotting an empty expanse of ocean. This chapter draws on a rich vein of Pacific scholarship to highlight the effects of these dominant portrayal…
Truth Telling and Reconciliation in the Pacific: Solomon Islands' Experience
Truth-telling was necessary as part of Solomon Islands' reconciliation and peace-building process following the violent conflict between 1998 and 2003. When Solomon Islands gained constitutional independence from Great Britain in 1978, the architects of independence did not anticipate that the country would be embroiled in a violent conflict 20 years later. This conflict left the national economy in ruins, the nation-state on the verge of disinte…
Unsettling Legal Imperialism and Cultivating Homegrown Law: Why Law Schools Need Pacific Studies
Legal scholarship has often been deeply informed by the study of Pacific legal systems, but in law schools across the world there has been very little interest in teaching about, let alone learning from, the region and its people. Scholars and insights from the region remain grossly underrepresented and pushed to the margins of legal scholarship, and this silencing reproduces the underrepresentation of Pasifika people in law schools, the legal pr…
Introduction – In Our Own Words: Histories in Languages of Oceania
Using kastom evidence in court: A legal and archaeological review of the intersection between Indigenous cultural heritage, land ownership, and law in Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands’ plural legal system, in which customary law operates in parallel with common law, and its practice and effects on society have drawn scholarly attention in spaces of legal studies, policy, economics, and state governance. An area that remains understudied is the dynamic nature in which landowners use Indigenous cultural heritage such as ancestral sites or genealogies as kastom evidence in courts. We explore this intersection thro…
Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)