Not really Europeans / No son realmente europeos: Cuban doctors in the Pacific (2013)
Interviews with Cubans and Pacific Islanders participating in Cuban international health solidarity in the Pacific region.
Melanesian customary land and hybrid livelihoods (2010)
Community land was at the root of indigenous survival and social relations until colonial regimes enforced dispossession. Yet, as if by an accident of history, the countries of Melanesia (and particularly Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu) largely […]
RAMSI: Intervention, aid trauma and self governance (2008)
The Regional Assistance Mission Solomon Islands (RAMSI) was an intervention force requested by the Solomon Islands Government to help stabilise the country after a period of civil strife. It became an experiment in ‘cooperative intervention’ – at a time of […]
Australia’s regional interventions: The antinomies of ‘good governance’ (2007)
This paper examines the antinomies of Australian ‘good governance’: the logical nonsense of regional coerced democracy and carefully tutored economic ‘best practice’. The tension between intervention and independence in the region – particularly with respect to the recent experience of Papua […]