Carmen M White
Biographic Data
| ID | 75774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmen M White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmen M |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Chiefs, Moral Imperatives, and the Specter of Class in Fiji
The chiefly system in Fiji is a hierarchical one that sanctifies the status of hereditary high chiefs, but this sanctification does not render high chiefs sacrosanct. Although hierarchy in the chiefly system presumes reverence and forms of service to chiefs from the untitled, that same reverence, service, and support for chiefs can be equivocal. This follows from the reciprocal dimension of the social and moral contract that binds Fijian chiefs a…
Deficit thinking redux: Cultural deficit discourse and an urban community and school in Fiji
Cultural deficit thinking comprises a complex of coded labels and descriptive variables that focus an essentializing, critical lens on the parenting, values and ‘home environment’ of the poor and working class. With origins in the US, cultural deficit discourse's cooptation in Fiji is revealed in language used by school staff to assess Fijian students and parents identified with low-income housing estates. To understand how and why Fijians in hou…
Subjective difference: Institutional culture and the assessment of Fijian female academic achievement
Several societies throughout the global North and South are now witnessing unprecedented patterns of marginally higher female academic performance and educational attainment. But the processes that have generated such patterns and responses to their development have not been uniform across or within these societies. In multiracial Fiji, statistics reveal higher secondary school enrolment and lower attrition rates for Fijian females compared with …
Living In Zion: Rastafarian Repatriates in Ghana, West Africa
The theme of repatriation figures prominently in a repertoire of symbols and concepts associated with Rastafarianism. Yet the experiences and perspectives of repatriated Rastafarians remains an uncharted area of research in Rastafarian scholarship and studies in the African diaspora, more broadly conceived. What impact does an actual physical repatriation have on the Rastafarian ethos of repatriates? For example, is there a reworking or confirmat…
More authentic than thou: Authenticity and othering in Fiji tourism discourse
This article explores the ways that othering and differentiation in Fiji tourism discourse cater to international tourists' presumed quest for authenticity. In addition to tapping into western discursive practices differentiating Polynesian and Melanesian `primitivity', Fiji tourism promoters market their destination as a site to experience the `genuine friendliness' of indigenous Fijians as the native, `authentic other'. `Genuine', is about `rea…
Moving Up the Ranks: Chiefly Status, Prestige, and Schooling in Colonial Fiji
In a 1987 volume titled Class and Culture in the South Pacific , Samoan historian Malama Meleisea describes orthodox Marxism, modernization theory, and unilineal evolutionary thought as united in their “Eurocentric frame of reference,” their “notion of unilineal progress,... assumption that pre-capitalist social institutions are obsolete and that class formation is historically inevitable.” While Meleisea's pointed polemic against metanarratives …
Fijian Males at the Crossroads of Gender and Ethnicity in a Fiji Secondary School
This article explores how two transgendered Fijian males navigate the intersections of sex, gender, and ethnicity or race in a Fiji secondary school. Their experiences illustrate, on the one hand, the negotiability of a transgendered category in Fiji. On the other hand, there is the potential for transgendered identity to open spaces for engagement with nonFijian ethnic markers in the face of essentialist discursive practices on ethnicity. The ca…
Language, Authenticity and Identity: Indigenous Fijian Students and Language Use in Schools
Many indigenous minorities are in the process of revitalising their languages lost through such colonial policies as the use of colonial languages for instruction in schools. In these revitalisation movements, the indigenous language becomes a symbol of group authenticity. The literature suggests that indigenous populations define group authenticity as part of an oppositional identity relative to that of a dominant, or former colonising group and…
Minority Status as a Contested Terrain: Defining the Parameters of Subordinate Status in Post-Independent Fiji Discourse
(2002). Minority Status as a Contested Terrain: Defining the Parameters of Subordinate Status in Post-Independent Fiji Discourse. Social Identities: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 11-43
More authentic than thou: Authenticity and othering in Fiji tourism discourse
This article explores the ways that othering and differentiation in Fiji tourism discourse cater to international tourists' presumed quest for authenticity. In addition to tapping into western discursive practices differentiating Polynesian and Melanesian `primitivity', Fiji tourism promoters market their destination as a site to experience the `genuine friendliness' of indigenous Fijians as the native, `authentic other'. `Genuine', is about `rea…
Language, Authenticity and Identity: Indigenous Fijian Students and Language Use in Schools
Many indigenous minorities are in the process of revitalising their languages lost through such colonial policies as the use of colonial languages for instruction in schools. In these revitalisation movements, the indigenous language becomes a symbol of group authenticity. The literature suggests that indigenous populations define group authenticity as part of an oppositional identity relative to that of a dominant, or former colonising group and…
Minority Status as a Contested Terrain: Defining the Parameters of Subordinate Status in Post-Independent Fiji Discourse
(2002). Minority Status as a Contested Terrain: Defining the Parameters of Subordinate Status in Post-Independent Fiji Discourse. Social Identities: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 11-43
Moving Up the Ranks: Chiefly Status, Prestige, and Schooling in Colonial Fiji
In a 1987 volume titled Class and Culture in the South Pacific , Samoan historian Malama Meleisea describes orthodox Marxism, modernization theory, and unilineal evolutionary thought as united in their “Eurocentric frame of reference,” their “notion of unilineal progress,... assumption that pre-capitalist social institutions are obsolete and that class formation is historically inevitable.” While Meleisea's pointed polemic against metanarratives …
Deficit thinking redux: Cultural deficit discourse and an urban community and school in Fiji
Cultural deficit thinking comprises a complex of coded labels and descriptive variables that focus an essentializing, critical lens on the parenting, values and ‘home environment’ of the poor and working class. With origins in the US, cultural deficit discourse's cooptation in Fiji is revealed in language used by school staff to assess Fijian students and parents identified with low-income housing estates. To understand how and why Fijians in hou…
Subjective difference: Institutional culture and the assessment of Fijian female academic achievement
Several societies throughout the global North and South are now witnessing unprecedented patterns of marginally higher female academic performance and educational attainment. But the processes that have generated such patterns and responses to their development have not been uniform across or within these societies. In multiracial Fiji, statistics reveal higher secondary school enrolment and lower attrition rates for Fijian females compared with …
Fijian Males at the Crossroads of Gender and Ethnicity in a Fiji Secondary School
This article explores how two transgendered Fijian males navigate the intersections of sex, gender, and ethnicity or race in a Fiji secondary school. Their experiences illustrate, on the one hand, the negotiability of a transgendered category in Fiji. On the other hand, there is the potential for transgendered identity to open spaces for engagement with nonFijian ethnic markers in the face of essentialist discursive practices on ethnicity. The ca…
Language, Authenticity and Identity: Indigenous Fijian Students and Language Use in Schools
Many indigenous minorities are in the process of revitalising their languages lost through such colonial policies as the use of colonial languages for instruction in schools. In these revitalisation movements, the indigenous language becomes a symbol of group authenticity. The literature suggests that indigenous populations define group authenticity as part of an oppositional identity relative to that of a dominant, or former colonising group and…
Minority Status as a Contested Terrain: Defining the Parameters of Subordinate Status in Post-Independent Fiji Discourse
(2002). Minority Status as a Contested Terrain: Defining the Parameters of Subordinate Status in Post-Independent Fiji Discourse. Social Identities: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 11-43
Fijian Males at the Crossroads of Gender and Ethnicity in a Fiji Secondary School
This article explores how two transgendered Fijian males navigate the intersections of sex, gender, and ethnicity or race in a Fiji secondary school. Their experiences illustrate, on the one hand, the negotiability of a transgendered category in Fiji. On the other hand, there is the potential for transgendered identity to open spaces for engagement with nonFijian ethnic markers in the face of essentialist discursive practices on ethnicity. The ca…
Moving Up the Ranks: Chiefly Status, Prestige, and Schooling in Colonial Fiji
In a 1987 volume titled Class and Culture in the South Pacific , Samoan historian Malama Meleisea describes orthodox Marxism, modernization theory, and unilineal evolutionary thought as united in their “Eurocentric frame of reference,” their “notion of unilineal progress,... assumption that pre-capitalist social institutions are obsolete and that class formation is historically inevitable.” While Meleisea's pointed polemic against metanarratives …
Living In Zion: Rastafarian Repatriates in Ghana, West Africa
The theme of repatriation figures prominently in a repertoire of symbols and concepts associated with Rastafarianism. Yet the experiences and perspectives of repatriated Rastafarians remains an uncharted area of research in Rastafarian scholarship and studies in the African diaspora, more broadly conceived. What impact does an actual physical repatriation have on the Rastafarian ethos of repatriates? For example, is there a reworking or confirmat…
More authentic than thou: Authenticity and othering in Fiji tourism discourse
This article explores the ways that othering and differentiation in Fiji tourism discourse cater to international tourists' presumed quest for authenticity. In addition to tapping into western discursive practices differentiating Polynesian and Melanesian `primitivity', Fiji tourism promoters market their destination as a site to experience the `genuine friendliness' of indigenous Fijians as the native, `authentic other'. `Genuine', is about `rea…
Subjective difference: Institutional culture and the assessment of Fijian female academic achievement
Several societies throughout the global North and South are now witnessing unprecedented patterns of marginally higher female academic performance and educational attainment. But the processes that have generated such patterns and responses to their development have not been uniform across or within these societies. In multiracial Fiji, statistics reveal higher secondary school enrolment and lower attrition rates for Fijian females compared with …
Deficit thinking redux: Cultural deficit discourse and an urban community and school in Fiji
Cultural deficit thinking comprises a complex of coded labels and descriptive variables that focus an essentializing, critical lens on the parenting, values and ‘home environment’ of the poor and working class. With origins in the US, cultural deficit discourse's cooptation in Fiji is revealed in language used by school staff to assess Fijian students and parents identified with low-income housing estates. To understand how and why Fijians in hou…
Chiefs, Moral Imperatives, and the Specter of Class in Fiji
The chiefly system in Fiji is a hierarchical one that sanctifies the status of hereditary high chiefs, but this sanctification does not render high chiefs sacrosanct. Although hierarchy in the chiefly system presumes reverence and forms of service to chiefs from the untitled, that same reverence, service, and support for chiefs can be equivocal. This follows from the reciprocal dimension of the social and moral contract that binds Fijian chiefs a…
Sociology (9 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Politics (3 works)