Steven Ratuva
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 846192 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steven Ratuva |
| PRENOMES | Steven |
| SOBRENOME | Ratuva |
| ASSINATURA | RATUVA S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2393-4581 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Predatory Mining, Conflict and Political Spaces
Storytelling and good relations
How can we support young citizens facing chaotic climate futures? This question is urgent, particularly for Indigenous communities who face disproportionate risks and impacts of climate change. For the past three decades, climate-related education has focused largely on the acquisition of scientific knowledge in instrumental ways, while encouraging individual behaviour change. This approach centres the problem rather than human capabilities to ge…
Commentary
Risks, Identity and Conflict
Risk, Identity and Conflict
The Politics of Imagery
Social indexology, neoliberalism and racialised metrics
The article critically examines how the neoliberal ethos has influenced the racialised ranking of countries using indexes, or what I propose to call social indexology (SI). SI refers to the use of quantitative metrics to measure the performance of countries based on selected indicators, often drawn from a pool of Western and neoliberal variables associated with governance, corruption, development and other value-loaded concepts. The article criti…
Covid 19, communal capital and the moral economy
One of the impacts of COVID-19 is that communities have looked for alternative means of survival as the market economy went into a major crisis and people lost their jobs. For many communities in the Pacific Islands, who have relied largely on the market economy over the years, this means falling back on their communal way of life which has provided resilience for centuries. The revival of various forms of communal capital such as kinship exchang…
Risks, Identity and Conflict
Guns & Roses
The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity
The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity
Anxiety and Diminished Hope
The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the US has caused much international consternation and anxiety. Reactions have been based on distrust and rejection of Trump’s political ideology, behavioural disposition and unpredictable policy positions. His campaign speeches were filled with provocative utterances which were racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-environment and self-centred. This article examines some possible impacts of Trump’…
Subalternization of the global south
Mainstream 'Western' discourses on security often located the Western world at the centre of analysis, and the global south societies were seen as full of rogue states and potential sources of threat to liberal democracy, global capitalist interests and Western values. A critical factor was the way in which some of the underlying assumptions were used to justify division of the world into the 'west versus the rest' and intervention in various for…
Protectionism versus Reformism
Discussion of intra-communal discourse in Fiji has often been overshadowed by the focus on inter-communal tension. Although the two are linked in dynamic ways, it is important to have an insight into some of the fundamental ideological schisms that have shaped inter-communal politics because they do shape the form and trajectory of national politics in a significant way. This was so during the 2014 election when the two leading political parties,…
The interface between affirmative action and neoliberalism
The notions of affirmative action and neoliberalism may be theoretically contradictory since the former deals with state intervention and the latter with privatization, the reality can be quite complex as the case of Fiji suggests. In a situation where the state has an ideological obligation to pursue neoliberal policies and a political commitment to implement affirmative action programs, the role the state plays as political and economic mediato…
A New Regional Cold War? A merican and C hinese Posturing in the P acific
It is often argued that the U nited S tates and C hinese engagement in the P acific manifests a clash of foreign policies that mimics the cold war confrontation of the post‐ W orld W ar II era. The article argues that rather than a dichotomous contestation of foreign policies, the U nited S tates– C hina engagement is more complex in nature and needs to be understood using more ‘syncretic’ lenses to understand the complex synergy in their relatio…
Ethnicity, affirmative action and coups in Fiji
Affirmative action is often conceptualized as a conflict resolution mechanism in a situation of ethnic tension and socio-economic inequality. However, as the case of Fiji shows, affirmative action can also help spawn communal strife. Affirmative action is often used as political leverage by political parties and elites to serve political and personal ends. In post-colonial states like Fiji, where the designated groups are the politically dominant…
Politics of Preferential Development
The book is a critical examination of affirmative action, a form of preferential development often used to address the situation of disadvantaged groups. It uses a trans-global approach, as opposed to the comparative approach, to examine the relationship between affirmative action, ethnic conflict and the role of the state in Fiji, Malaysia and South Africa. While affirmative action has noble goals, there are often intervening political and ideol…
The Military Coups in Fiji
Since 1987 there have been six coups altogether in Fiji. The article examines the reactive and transformative nature of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, hereafter referred to as Fiji military, and coups and their impact on the small multi-cultural country of 850,000 people. The coups in Fiji have to be seen in the light of the two separate but related developments, namely the historical dynamic interplay between politics and ethnicity and se…
Commodifying cultural knowledge
This article examines the exploitative interplay between corporate-driven science and Pacific community-based wisdom and the extent to which they accommodate or negate each other. The focus will be on the commodification of traditional knowledge through bio-technology and bio-prospecting and its implications for people's sense of identity, security and ownership. How do globalisation and the global demand for free trade and commodification impact…
Politics of Preferential Development
The book is a critical examination of affirmative action, a form of preferential development often used to address the situation of disadvantaged groups. It uses a trans-global approach, as opposed to the comparative approach, to examine the relationship between affirmative action, ethnic conflict and the role of the state in Fiji, Malaysia and South Africa. While affirmative action has noble goals, there are often intervening political and ideol…
The Military Coups in Fiji
Since 1987 there have been six coups altogether in Fiji. The article examines the reactive and transformative nature of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, hereafter referred to as Fiji military, and coups and their impact on the small multi-cultural country of 850,000 people. The coups in Fiji have to be seen in the light of the two separate but related developments, namely the historical dynamic interplay between politics and ethnicity and se…
The Politics of Imagery
Storytelling and good relations
How can we support young citizens facing chaotic climate futures? This question is urgent, particularly for Indigenous communities who face disproportionate risks and impacts of climate change. For the past three decades, climate-related education has focused largely on the acquisition of scientific knowledge in instrumental ways, while encouraging individual behaviour change. This approach centres the problem rather than human capabilities to ge…
Covid 19, communal capital and the moral economy
One of the impacts of COVID-19 is that communities have looked for alternative means of survival as the market economy went into a major crisis and people lost their jobs. For many communities in the Pacific Islands, who have relied largely on the market economy over the years, this means falling back on their communal way of life which has provided resilience for centuries. The revival of various forms of communal capital such as kinship exchang…
Subalternization of the global south
Mainstream 'Western' discourses on security often located the Western world at the centre of analysis, and the global south societies were seen as full of rogue states and potential sources of threat to liberal democracy, global capitalist interests and Western values. A critical factor was the way in which some of the underlying assumptions were used to justify division of the world into the 'west versus the rest' and intervention in various for…
Anxiety and Diminished Hope
The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the US has caused much international consternation and anxiety. Reactions have been based on distrust and rejection of Trump’s political ideology, behavioural disposition and unpredictable policy positions. His campaign speeches were filled with provocative utterances which were racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-environment and self-centred. This article examines some possible impacts of Trump’…
Protectionism versus Reformism
Discussion of intra-communal discourse in Fiji has often been overshadowed by the focus on inter-communal tension. Although the two are linked in dynamic ways, it is important to have an insight into some of the fundamental ideological schisms that have shaped inter-communal politics because they do shape the form and trajectory of national politics in a significant way. This was so during the 2014 election when the two leading political parties,…
The interface between affirmative action and neoliberalism
The notions of affirmative action and neoliberalism may be theoretically contradictory since the former deals with state intervention and the latter with privatization, the reality can be quite complex as the case of Fiji suggests. In a situation where the state has an ideological obligation to pursue neoliberal policies and a political commitment to implement affirmative action programs, the role the state plays as political and economic mediato…
A New Regional Cold War? A merican and C hinese Posturing in the P acific
It is often argued that the U nited S tates and C hinese engagement in the P acific manifests a clash of foreign policies that mimics the cold war confrontation of the post‐ W orld W ar II era. The article argues that rather than a dichotomous contestation of foreign policies, the U nited S tates– C hina engagement is more complex in nature and needs to be understood using more ‘syncretic’ lenses to understand the complex synergy in their relatio…
Ethnicity, affirmative action and coups in Fiji
Affirmative action is often conceptualized as a conflict resolution mechanism in a situation of ethnic tension and socio-economic inequality. However, as the case of Fiji shows, affirmative action can also help spawn communal strife. Affirmative action is often used as political leverage by political parties and elites to serve political and personal ends. In post-colonial states like Fiji, where the designated groups are the politically dominant…
Commodifying cultural knowledge
This article examines the exploitative interplay between corporate-driven science and Pacific community-based wisdom and the extent to which they accommodate or negate each other. The focus will be on the commodification of traditional knowledge through bio-technology and bio-prospecting and its implications for people's sense of identity, security and ownership. How do globalisation and the global demand for free trade and commodification impact…
Commodifying cultural knowledge
This article examines the exploitative interplay between corporate-driven science and Pacific community-based wisdom and the extent to which they accommodate or negate each other. The focus will be on the commodification of traditional knowledge through bio-technology and bio-prospecting and its implications for people's sense of identity, security and ownership. How do globalisation and the global demand for free trade and commodification impact…
The Military Coups in Fiji
Since 1987 there have been six coups altogether in Fiji. The article examines the reactive and transformative nature of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, hereafter referred to as Fiji military, and coups and their impact on the small multi-cultural country of 850,000 people. The coups in Fiji have to be seen in the light of the two separate but related developments, namely the historical dynamic interplay between politics and ethnicity and se…
Politics of Preferential Development
The book is a critical examination of affirmative action, a form of preferential development often used to address the situation of disadvantaged groups. It uses a trans-global approach, as opposed to the comparative approach, to examine the relationship between affirmative action, ethnic conflict and the role of the state in Fiji, Malaysia and South Africa. While affirmative action has noble goals, there are often intervening political and ideol…
A New Regional Cold War? A merican and C hinese Posturing in the P acific
It is often argued that the U nited S tates and C hinese engagement in the P acific manifests a clash of foreign policies that mimics the cold war confrontation of the post‐ W orld W ar II era. The article argues that rather than a dichotomous contestation of foreign policies, the U nited S tates– C hina engagement is more complex in nature and needs to be understood using more ‘syncretic’ lenses to understand the complex synergy in their relatio…
Ethnicity, affirmative action and coups in Fiji
Affirmative action is often conceptualized as a conflict resolution mechanism in a situation of ethnic tension and socio-economic inequality. However, as the case of Fiji shows, affirmative action can also help spawn communal strife. Affirmative action is often used as political leverage by political parties and elites to serve political and personal ends. In post-colonial states like Fiji, where the designated groups are the politically dominant…
Protectionism versus Reformism
Discussion of intra-communal discourse in Fiji has often been overshadowed by the focus on inter-communal tension. Although the two are linked in dynamic ways, it is important to have an insight into some of the fundamental ideological schisms that have shaped inter-communal politics because they do shape the form and trajectory of national politics in a significant way. This was so during the 2014 election when the two leading political parties,…
The interface between affirmative action and neoliberalism
The notions of affirmative action and neoliberalism may be theoretically contradictory since the former deals with state intervention and the latter with privatization, the reality can be quite complex as the case of Fiji suggests. In a situation where the state has an ideological obligation to pursue neoliberal policies and a political commitment to implement affirmative action programs, the role the state plays as political and economic mediato…
Subalternization of the global south
Mainstream 'Western' discourses on security often located the Western world at the centre of analysis, and the global south societies were seen as full of rogue states and potential sources of threat to liberal democracy, global capitalist interests and Western values. A critical factor was the way in which some of the underlying assumptions were used to justify division of the world into the 'west versus the rest' and intervention in various for…
Anxiety and Diminished Hope
The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the US has caused much international consternation and anxiety. Reactions have been based on distrust and rejection of Trump’s political ideology, behavioural disposition and unpredictable policy positions. His campaign speeches were filled with provocative utterances which were racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-environment and self-centred. This article examines some possible impacts of Trump’…
Guns & Roses
The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity
The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity
Risks, Identity and Conflict
Risk, Identity and Conflict
The Politics of Imagery
Social indexology, neoliberalism and racialised metrics
The article critically examines how the neoliberal ethos has influenced the racialised ranking of countries using indexes, or what I propose to call social indexology (SI). SI refers to the use of quantitative metrics to measure the performance of countries based on selected indicators, often drawn from a pool of Western and neoliberal variables associated with governance, corruption, development and other value-loaded concepts. The article criti…
Covid 19, communal capital and the moral economy
One of the impacts of COVID-19 is that communities have looked for alternative means of survival as the market economy went into a major crisis and people lost their jobs. For many communities in the Pacific Islands, who have relied largely on the market economy over the years, this means falling back on their communal way of life which has provided resilience for centuries. The revival of various forms of communal capital such as kinship exchang…
Risks, Identity and Conflict
Commentary
Predatory Mining, Conflict and Political Spaces
Storytelling and good relations
How can we support young citizens facing chaotic climate futures? This question is urgent, particularly for Indigenous communities who face disproportionate risks and impacts of climate change. For the past three decades, climate-related education has focused largely on the acquisition of scientific knowledge in instrumental ways, while encouraging individual behaviour change. This approach centres the problem rather than human capabilities to ge…
Political science (18 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Politics (13 obras) · Economics (12 obras) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (10 obras) · Political economy (10 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Development economics (5 obras)