Michelle Nayahamui Rooney
Biographic Data
| ID | 628428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Nayahamui Rooney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle Nayahamui |
| FAMILY NAME | Rooney |
| SIGNATURE | ROONEY M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5767-0353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Activating memory of Manus through strands of basket-making: A conversation with Nayahamui Rooney
This conversation explores themes of memory, activism, and the arts through the scholarship, poetry, and practice of Nayahamui Rooney. In a range of interdisciplinary work, Rooney, a Papua New Guinean woman, has analyzed key issues of power, violence, justice, and voice in Papua New Guinea. In this interview, Rooney reflects on how her journey to become a maker of baskets on Manus Island informed her understanding of the political and social dyna…
Thinking incrementally about policy interventions on intimate partner violence in Papua New Guinea: Understanding ‘popcorn’ and ‘blanket’
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has introduced laws and policies aimed at protecting women from intimate partner violence. This article examines how men who live in Lae, PNG, have made sense of and reacted to these laws and policies. Two evocative metaphors -'popcorn' and 'blanket' - emerge from our research. For 'popcorn', we see how the reforms created a chain reaction similar to that when popcorn is made. Using this metaphor, we analyse men's responses…
Storying Manus Women and Girls into Asylum Seeker and PNG Women’s Rights Discourses Surrounding the Manus Regional Processing Centre, 2012–19
Between 2012 and 2019 two important human rights discourses ran concurrently in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The first involved the rights of asylum seekers detained in Australia’s offshore Regional Processing Centre (RPC) on Manus Island. The second related to PNG women’s and girls’ rights amid the epidemic levels of violence against women and girls in PNG. As the PNG province that hosted the RPC, Manus provides a lens for examining these two rights …
Nahau, Pihi Manus, Pilapan: Hegemony's gender as artefacts of history
It is a pleasure to contribute to the book forum on the republication of the book Culture and History in the Pacific. My contribution comprises two parts. In the first part, I briefly reflect on the book and its current relevance and highlight some issues that resonate with me. In the second part, I provide a more personal response to the book. Together, I hope that this two-part reflection shows the important place this book has in mediating pas…
As Basket and Papu: Making Manus Social Fabric
Between 2012 and 2019, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, hosted Australia's offshore detention centre for asylum seekers and refugees, known as the Regional Processing Centre (RPC). This paper analyses some of the social impacts of the RPC on Lorengau town, the urban centre of Manus, through the analytical lens of the Manus idiom, as basket (Tok Pisin). Materially this refers to the everyday Manus basket whilst metaphorically, it refers to an indiv…
Aliko and Ambai: Dir. Diane Anton and Mark Eby, prod. Mark Eby and Verena Thomas, Centre for Social and Creative Media, University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea, 2017. 102 mins
When I was asked to review Aliko and Ambai, it had already been screened to wide acclaim in the media. Reviews have tended to frame this film, which follows the experiences of the two young women o
Sharing What Can Be Sold: Women Haus Maket Vendors in Port Moresby's Settlements
Dominant narratives of the economy, as well as policy discourses in Papua New Guinea (PNG), tend to separate the ‘formal’ from the ‘informal’ economy. Concurrently, there is a development policy emphasis on women's economic empowerment. In urban areas this has meant a policy focus on larger market places as sites where women need support for economic engagement. Within these policy discourses, one activity in urban areas usually relegated to the …
‘There’s Nothing Better than Land’: A Migrant Group’s Strategies for Accessing Informal Settlement Land in Port Moresby
In order to assist with the clarity of the argument of this chapter, I have edited, summarised and
Lewa Was Mama (Beloved Guardian Mother)
Name, Shame and Blame: Criminalising Consensual Sex in Papua New Guinea
With the publication of this book, Mary McEwen, a daughter-in-law of its subject, offers a first biographical essay on the life and work of a dedicated public servant, a distinguished non-aca- demic scholar of Polynesia and, particularly, New Zealand Ma ̄ori, and a respected practitioner of the latter’s arts of carving, composition, and performance. In doing so, she also provides a variety of insights into government relations with and policies o…
A critical analysis of the implementation of service user involvement in primary care research and health service development using normalization process theory
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A critical analysis of the implementation of service user involvement in primary care research and health service development using normalization process theory
‘There’s Nothing Better than Land’: A Migrant Group’s Strategies for Accessing Informal Settlement Land in Port Moresby
In order to assist with the clarity of the argument of this chapter, I have edited, summarised and
Lewa Was Mama (Beloved Guardian Mother)
Name, Shame and Blame: Criminalising Consensual Sex in Papua New Guinea
With the publication of this book, Mary McEwen, a daughter-in-law of its subject, offers a first biographical essay on the life and work of a dedicated public servant, a distinguished non-aca- demic scholar of Polynesia and, particularly, New Zealand Ma ̄ori, and a respected practitioner of the latter’s arts of carving, composition, and performance. In doing so, she also provides a variety of insights into government relations with and policies o…
Sharing What Can Be Sold: Women Haus Maket Vendors in Port Moresby's Settlements
Dominant narratives of the economy, as well as policy discourses in Papua New Guinea (PNG), tend to separate the ‘formal’ from the ‘informal’ economy. Concurrently, there is a development policy emphasis on women's economic empowerment. In urban areas this has meant a policy focus on larger market places as sites where women need support for economic engagement. Within these policy discourses, one activity in urban areas usually relegated to the …
Aliko and Ambai: Dir. Diane Anton and Mark Eby, prod. Mark Eby and Verena Thomas, Centre for Social and Creative Media, University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea, 2017. 102 mins
When I was asked to review Aliko and Ambai, it had already been screened to wide acclaim in the media. Reviews have tended to frame this film, which follows the experiences of the two young women o
As Basket and Papu: Making Manus Social Fabric
Between 2012 and 2019, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, hosted Australia's offshore detention centre for asylum seekers and refugees, known as the Regional Processing Centre (RPC). This paper analyses some of the social impacts of the RPC on Lorengau town, the urban centre of Manus, through the analytical lens of the Manus idiom, as basket (Tok Pisin). Materially this refers to the everyday Manus basket whilst metaphorically, it refers to an indiv…
Nahau, Pihi Manus, Pilapan: Hegemony's gender as artefacts of history
It is a pleasure to contribute to the book forum on the republication of the book Culture and History in the Pacific. My contribution comprises two parts. In the first part, I briefly reflect on the book and its current relevance and highlight some issues that resonate with me. In the second part, I provide a more personal response to the book. Together, I hope that this two-part reflection shows the important place this book has in mediating pas…
Thinking incrementally about policy interventions on intimate partner violence in Papua New Guinea: Understanding ‘popcorn’ and ‘blanket’
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has introduced laws and policies aimed at protecting women from intimate partner violence. This article examines how men who live in Lae, PNG, have made sense of and reacted to these laws and policies. Two evocative metaphors -'popcorn' and 'blanket' - emerge from our research. For 'popcorn', we see how the reforms created a chain reaction similar to that when popcorn is made. Using this metaphor, we analyse men's responses…
Storying Manus Women and Girls into Asylum Seeker and PNG Women’s Rights Discourses Surrounding the Manus Regional Processing Centre, 2012–19
Between 2012 and 2019 two important human rights discourses ran concurrently in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The first involved the rights of asylum seekers detained in Australia’s offshore Regional Processing Centre (RPC) on Manus Island. The second related to PNG women’s and girls’ rights amid the epidemic levels of violence against women and girls in PNG. As the PNG province that hosted the RPC, Manus provides a lens for examining these two rights …
Activating memory of Manus through strands of basket-making: A conversation with Nayahamui Rooney
This conversation explores themes of memory, activism, and the arts through the scholarship, poetry, and practice of Nayahamui Rooney. In a range of interdisciplinary work, Rooney, a Papua New Guinean woman, has analyzed key issues of power, violence, justice, and voice in Papua New Guinea. In this interview, Rooney reflects on how her journey to become a maker of baskets on Manus Island informed her understanding of the political and social dyna…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Manus (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)