Traditional Seafaring in Oceania
A New Theory of Maritime Resistance and Advocacy
Traditional Seafaring in Oceania
A New Theory of Maritime Resistance and Advocacy
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In this book, Hunter H. Fine examines traditional seafaring practices in Oceania to establish a fuller understanding of the ways in which our everyday practices can illuminate aspects of power, representation, social advocacy, and truth.
Fine considers how circulatory maritime voyages resulted in a shared network of practices and knowledge that have been passed down to the descendants of these seafaring cultures, who still engage in and teach them in present day, most prominently in Micronesia. Positioning the voyages themselves and the practices that enabled them as embodied forms of writing and theory-both in everyday life and as public performances of social advocacy-Fine proposes a critical theory based in both traditional seafaring and poststructuralist rhetorical theory.
Through this new framework, the book illustrates how an Indigenous body of knowledge has formed the foundations for contemporary maritime practices, how it has functioned as both domestic and international advocacy and resistance, and how these various practices work together to provide an epistemological alternative to Western modernity/coloniality.
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Table of Contents
1. Toward a New Theory of Maritime Resistance and Advocacy
2. Historical Seafaring in Oceania and Western Denial
3. Traditional Seafaring in Oceania Practices and Social Advocacy
4. Traditional Seafaring in Oceania Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy
5. Traditional Seafaring in Oceania, He'e Nalu, and Surfing
6. The Social Construction of the Beach, Indigeneity, and Maritime Resistance
Conclusion: This is a Voyage
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Index
Product details
| Published | Feb 05 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 248 |
| ISBN | 9781978760479 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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