Renee Monson
Biographic Data
| ID | 259109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renee Monson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renee |
| FAMILY NAME | Monson |
| SIGNATURE | MONSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7427-757X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lessons from the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion for Indigenous rights
Addressing the diversity of Loss and damage in Pacific Island countries to foster a just transition towards a climate-resilient future
Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) are typically regarded as being among the world’s most exposed to natural hazards. With climate change, these hazards may lead to losses and damages that pose a near existential threat for some communities. PICTs are highly diverse, but we show that they are being impacted by climate change in ways that are shared across the region, and different to many other parts of the world. The global narrati…
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…
Land tenure, climate adaptation and legal pluralism in a Pacific town: This is the real story
Let it Fall, Let it Break: When Should We Refuse to Repair
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…
Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific: Who Speaks for Land
Legal scholars, economists, and international development practitioners often assume that the state is capable of 'securing' rights to land and addressing gender inequality in land tenure. In this innovative study of land tenure in Solomon Islands, Rebecca Monson challenges these assumptions. Monson demonstrates that territorial disputes have given rise to a legal system characterised by state law, custom, and Christianity, and that the legal con…
Property rights and climate migration: Adaptive governance in the South Pacific
How would a polycentric property system react to mass movements of people caused by escalating climate change? Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives, the article suggests an analytical frame for polycentric property system responses to climate migration. The case study is Solomon Islands, a South Pacific state with high levels of environmental vulnerability, where people draw on various governance mechanisms to secure proprietary relationship…
Gender and Law
The study of gender and law from an anthropological perspective emerged during the 1970s. It was associated with an increased emphasis on examining power relations and the emergence of processualism within legal anthropology, as well as with the development of feminist scholarship in other fields. Scholars studying gender and law from an anthropological perspective are diverse in both their theoretical and their methodological orientations. Howev…
The Politics of Property: Gender, Land and Political Authority in Solomon Islands
In his 2012 New Year’s address to the nation, Solomon Islands’ GovernorGeneral Sir Frank Kabui warned that land tenure had become the issue most likely to spark conflict within the scattered archipelagic nation. He went on to outline a number of issues he perceived to be a problem, including: the ‘communal’ ownership of land by kin groups and the need to register land in order to make it ‘marketable’; the inequitable distribution of natural resou…
Groups That Work: Student Achievement in Group Research Projects and Effects on Individual Learning
Group research projects frequently are used to teach undergraduate research methods. This study uses multivariate analyses to examine the characteristics of higher-achieving groups (those that earn higher grades on group research projects) and to estimate the effects of participating in higher-achieving groups on subsequent individual learning (grade on final paper). The sample includes 257 students who completed a sociology research methods cour…
Land Law and Natural Disasters in the South Pacific
Unsettled Explorations of Law's Archives: The Allure and Anxiety of Solomon Islands' Court Records
While there is now a rich and varied literature on the ‘archival turn’ in other disciplines, legal scholars have had relatively little to say about their own approach to archival materials, their conceptualisation of the archive, or the ethical implications of their work. This article draws on my own engagement with the records of land commissions and courts in Solomon Islands to consider the insights that might be gained from attending not only …
Asia-Pacific: Haitians Must Determine the Future of Haiti
Asia-Pacific: Law and Order: Finding Legal Solutions to Civil Insecurity
Groups That Work: Student Achievement in Group Research Projects and Effects on Individual Learning
Group research projects frequently are used to teach undergraduate research methods. This study uses multivariate analyses to examine the characteristics of higher-achieving groups (those that earn higher grades on group research projects) and to estimate the effects of participating in higher-achieving groups on subsequent individual learning (grade on final paper). The sample includes 257 students who completed a sociology research methods cour…
Property rights and climate migration: Adaptive governance in the South Pacific
How would a polycentric property system react to mass movements of people caused by escalating climate change? Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives, the article suggests an analytical frame for polycentric property system responses to climate migration. The case study is Solomon Islands, a South Pacific state with high levels of environmental vulnerability, where people draw on various governance mechanisms to secure proprietary relationship…
Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific: Who Speaks for Land
Legal scholars, economists, and international development practitioners often assume that the state is capable of 'securing' rights to land and addressing gender inequality in land tenure. In this innovative study of land tenure in Solomon Islands, Rebecca Monson challenges these assumptions. Monson demonstrates that territorial disputes have given rise to a legal system characterised by state law, custom, and Christianity, and that the legal con…
Unsettled Explorations of Law's Archives: The Allure and Anxiety of Solomon Islands' Court Records
While there is now a rich and varied literature on the ‘archival turn’ in other disciplines, legal scholars have had relatively little to say about their own approach to archival materials, their conceptualisation of the archive, or the ethical implications of their work. This article draws on my own engagement with the records of land commissions and courts in Solomon Islands to consider the insights that might be gained from attending not only …
Land tenure, climate adaptation and legal pluralism in a Pacific town: This is the real story
Land Law and Natural Disasters in the South Pacific
Asia-Pacific: Law and Order: Finding Legal Solutions to Civil Insecurity
Asia-Pacific: Haitians Must Determine the Future of Haiti
Unsettled Explorations of Law's Archives: The Allure and Anxiety of Solomon Islands' Court Records
While there is now a rich and varied literature on the ‘archival turn’ in other disciplines, legal scholars have had relatively little to say about their own approach to archival materials, their conceptualisation of the archive, or the ethical implications of their work. This article draws on my own engagement with the records of land commissions and courts in Solomon Islands to consider the insights that might be gained from attending not only …
Land Law and Natural Disasters in the South Pacific
The Politics of Property: Gender, Land and Political Authority in Solomon Islands
In his 2012 New Year’s address to the nation, Solomon Islands’ GovernorGeneral Sir Frank Kabui warned that land tenure had become the issue most likely to spark conflict within the scattered archipelagic nation. He went on to outline a number of issues he perceived to be a problem, including: the ‘communal’ ownership of land by kin groups and the need to register land in order to make it ‘marketable’; the inequitable distribution of natural resou…
Groups That Work: Student Achievement in Group Research Projects and Effects on Individual Learning
Group research projects frequently are used to teach undergraduate research methods. This study uses multivariate analyses to examine the characteristics of higher-achieving groups (those that earn higher grades on group research projects) and to estimate the effects of participating in higher-achieving groups on subsequent individual learning (grade on final paper). The sample includes 257 students who completed a sociology research methods cour…
Gender and Law
The study of gender and law from an anthropological perspective emerged during the 1970s. It was associated with an increased emphasis on examining power relations and the emergence of processualism within legal anthropology, as well as with the development of feminist scholarship in other fields. Scholars studying gender and law from an anthropological perspective are diverse in both their theoretical and their methodological orientations. Howev…
Property rights and climate migration: Adaptive governance in the South Pacific
How would a polycentric property system react to mass movements of people caused by escalating climate change? Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives, the article suggests an analytical frame for polycentric property system responses to climate migration. The case study is Solomon Islands, a South Pacific state with high levels of environmental vulnerability, where people draw on various governance mechanisms to secure proprietary relationship…
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…
Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific: Who Speaks for Land
Legal scholars, economists, and international development practitioners often assume that the state is capable of 'securing' rights to land and addressing gender inequality in land tenure. In this innovative study of land tenure in Solomon Islands, Rebecca Monson challenges these assumptions. Monson demonstrates that territorial disputes have given rise to a legal system characterised by state law, custom, and Christianity, and that the legal con…
Let it Fall, Let it Break: When Should We Refuse to Repair
Addressing the diversity of Loss and damage in Pacific Island countries to foster a just transition towards a climate-resilient future
Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) are typically regarded as being among the world’s most exposed to natural hazards. With climate change, these hazards may lead to losses and damages that pose a near existential threat for some communities. PICTs are highly diverse, but we show that they are being impacted by climate change in ways that are shared across the region, and different to many other parts of the world. The global narrati…
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…
Land tenure, climate adaptation and legal pluralism in a Pacific town: This is the real story
Lessons from the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion for Indigenous rights
Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (6 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Scholarship (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)