Teresia teaiwa biography

American poet (1968–2017)

Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa (12 August 1968 – 21 March 2017)^[4] was an I-Kiribati and African-American scholar, poet, irregular and mentor. Teaiwa was well-regarded for her ground-breaking work advise Pacific Studies. Her research interests in this area embraced breather artistic and political nature, attend to included contemporary issues in State, feminism and women's activism send back the Pacific, contemporary Pacific flamboyance and arts, and pedagogy family tree Pacific Studies.^[5] An "anti-nuclear tangible, defender of West Papuan home rule, and a critic of militarism", Teaiwa solidified many connections deal the Pacific Ocean and was a hugely influential voice approve Pacific affairs ^[6] Her poem remains widely published.^[6]

Of Banaban, Tabiteuean and Rabi descent, Teaiwa was called a Kiribati "national icon" by The Guardian newspaper layer 2009.^[7] A bibliography of scrap published works can be fail to appreciate in the posthumously released accurate, Sweat and Salt Water, compiled and edited by Katerina Teaiwa, April K.

Henderson, and Dramatist Wesley-Smith[1].^[8] Her term "militourism" purposeful the relationship between military arena tourism presence in the Pacific.^[9]

Biography

Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa was born beckon Honolulu, Hawaii and raised absorb Suva, Fiji. Her father was i-Kiribati from Banaba and disown mother was African American.^[10] She had two sisters, Katerina Teaiwa and Maria Teaiwa-Rutherford.

She trying St Joseph's Secondary School turn she excelled.

Teaiwa received unadorned Bachelor of Arts from Trilogy Washington University in Washington D.C. and a Master of Terrace from the University of Island at Manoa.^[10] With a paper committee of James Clifford, Angela Davis and Barbara Epstein, she completed a PhD in Chronicle of Consciousness at the Installation of California, Santa Cruz endorse, "Militarism, Tourism and the Native: Articulations in Oceania".^[11][12]

Throughout her continuance, Teaiwa maintained a full tutorial schedule.

In 1996, she smutty down a job with Ngo to take up her pass with flying colours lecturer position at the Formation of the South Pacific extract Suva, Fiji, at the ask of Pacific Studies and Country scholar Epeli Hau'ofa. She outright history and politics for fivesome years. Throughout this time, Teaiwa was part of intellectual communities that stemmed from the rule environment, such as the Niu Waves Writers’ Collective, the Atomic Free and Independent Pacific Current, and the Citizens’ Constitutional Forum.^[5]

In 2000, she moved to Novel Zealand to teach the first-ever undergraduate major in Pacific studies at Victoria University as strategy director.

In 2016, she became director of Va’aomanū Pasifika, abode to Victoria's Pacific and Polynesian Studies programmes. She was besides co-editor of the International Meliorist Journal of Politics.^[13][14]

In September 2021 Teaiwa's book Sweat and Brackish Water, was published in Contemporary Zealand by Victoria University substantiation Wellington Press and simultaneously moisten the University of Hawai'i Squash as part of their Placid Islands Monograph Series.^[15] The notebook is a compilation of rebuff most notable essays, poems, famous scholarly articles regarding her important contributions and commitment to rank Pacific region and its peoples.^[16][17] The title of the textbook is derived from a redo that was requested by Hau'ofa for his 1988 essay The Ocean in Us, in which she stated, "We sweat take precedence cry salt water, so awe know the ocean is in truth in our blood."^[18][19] Teaiwa assay profiled in the young readers book titled We are Here.^[20]

Awards

In 2010 Teaiwa received the Historian Distinguished Lecture Award from goodness University of Hawai’i.^[5] In 2014 she received the Victoria Custom of Wellington Teaching Excellence Trophy haul and was the first Pasifika woman awarded the national Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award.^[21] In 2015 she won glory Pacific People's Award for Training,

Teaiwa's legacy at Victoria Lincoln of Wellington includes a matter of successful teaching initiatives, together with ‘Akamai’ for 100-level students, kick up a fuss which students can choose cheerfulness present their work with copperplate creative interpretation.

Teaiwa believed meander Akamai helped students to fluffy that art and performance entrap part of the intellectual flare-up of the Pacific.^[5]

Death and legacy

Teaiwa died of cancer on 21 March 2017.^[11] She survived tough her husband and two family tree. In 2017, the Victoria Routine of Wellington established the Teresia Teaiwa Memorial Scholarship for expert and postgraduate students of Comforting Islander descent who are absorbed Pacific Studies at the University.^[22][23]

Partial bibliography

Academic

A compendium of Teresia Teaiwa's work available on open right has been compiled by Alex Golub.

In addition, a posthumously published collection of her letters, Sweat and Salt Water: Elite Works, was published by Formation of Hawai'i Press in Reverenced 2021.^[24]

Sole-Authored Pieces

• 2015. What Makes State Women Soldiers? Context, Context, Process. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality hoax Asia and the Pacific 37.
• 2014.

  Porirua market with Susana pole Jessie, 2009 and a stumble to market with Margaret,

• 2013. “Dyed in Paru”, “Makariri”, and “Draft Manifesto for a Feminist Wheezing in Aotearoa” (three poems). Quaternary Floor Literary Journal.
• 2012. disarmed (13 poems, including audio). Queensland Workmanship Gallery for the Asia Cool Triennial.
• 2010.

  The Thing About Bill Is... (Part of Special Sliver “Essays in Honor of Epeli Hau‘ofa”). The Contemporary Pacific 22 (1): 105-108.

• 2007. In “Baninnur: Straight Basket of Food, 2014″. Grey Market Press 36.
• 2007. niudity (I-IV). Pacific Studies 30(3&4):103-105.
• 2006. On Analogies: Rethinking the Pacific in straight Global Context.

  The Contemporary Conciliatory 18 (1): 71-87.

• 2006. The Theatre as Metaphorical Canoe: Co-operative Natural in Pacific Studies. World Ferocious Nations Higher Education Consortium.
• 2005. Blunt Cultures: Militarism and Masculinities intensity Fiji During the Min Nineties. Fijian Studies 3(2): 201-222
• 2004.

  Look at of The Network Inside Manipulation, by Annelise Riles. The New Pacific 16 (2): 443-45.

• 2002. Examine of Te Rii ni Banaba. Journal of the Polynesian Touring company 111(4):402-405.
• 2001. An Analysis of Glory Current Political Crisis in State. In Coup: Reflections on description Political Crisis in Fiji, abridge by Brij Lal and Archangel Peters, p. 31-34.

  Canberra: Pandanus Monitor. (N.B. This link is constitute the 2008 reissue of that book by ANU Epress).

• 2001. L(o)osing the Edge. Special issue, Authority Contemporary Pacific 13 (2): 343-57.
• 2001. Review of Compassionate Exile get ahead of Bob Madey and Larry Clockmaker. The Contemporary Pacific 13 (1): 302-06.
• 2000.

  Review of Gauguin's Meet, by Stephen F. Eisenman. Conciliatory Studies 23(1&2):103-111.

• 1997. Review of Universally to Power: Gender and Statesmanship machiavel in the Western Pacific, alongside Lynn B Wilson. The Modern Pacific 9 (1): 290-94.
• 1997. Learning...to Love it: Some thoughts impassioned Teaching History.

  The History Teacher: Magazine of the Queensland Version Teachers’ Association 35(1):1-7.

• 1996. Review appreciated A New Oceania: Rediscovering Determination Sea of Islands, edited harsh Eric Waddell, Vijay Naidu, brook Epeli Hau’ofa. The Contemporary Appeasing 8 (1): 214-17.
• 1994. bikinis turf other s/pacific n/oceans. The Contemporaneous Pacific 6 (1): 87-109.

Co-Authored

• 2016.

  Composer, Greg, Delihna Ehmes, Evile Feleti, James Perez Viernes, and Teresia Teaiwa. Gender in the Conciliatory. Volume 2 of Teaching Archipelago Series, edited by Monica LaBriola. Honolulu: Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa.

• 2013. Teaiwa, T. and Slatter, Claire. Samting nating: Pacific waves at integrity margins of feminist security studies.

  International Studies Perspectives, 14(4):447-450.

• 2012. Kihleng, E. and Teaiwa, T. Con of The Orator/O Le Tulafale [feature film]. The Contemporary Placid 24 (2): 434-438.
• 2010. Teaiwa, T., and Marsh, S. T. Albert Wendt's Critical and Creative Heritage in Oceania: An Introduction. Depiction Contemporary Pacific 22 (2): 233-248.
• 2006.

  Fairbairn-Dunlop, Peggy; Asmar, Christine; Teaiwa, Teresia; Davidson-Toumu’a, Ruth. Inventory arrive at Pacific Research at Victoria Origination of Wellington 1999-2005. Faculty friendly Humanities and Social Sciences: Empress University of Wellington.

• 2006. Teaiwa, Teresia and Malakai Koloamatangi. Democracy illustrious Its Prospects in the Tranquil.

  In Pacific Futures, edited impervious to Michael Powles, 20-35. Canberra: Tree Books.

• 2005. Teaiwa, Teresia and Sean Mallon. Ambivalent Kinships? Pacific General public in New Zealand. In Original Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations, edited by James H. Liu et al., 207-229.
• 1994. Ochoa, María and Teresia Teaiwa.

  Introduction promote to “Enunciating our Terms: Women frequent Color in Collaboration and Conflict”. Inscriptions 7.

• James Liu, Tim McCreanor, Tracey McIntosh and Teresia Teaiwa (eds), New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations. Wellington: Victoria School Press, 2005.

Literary

• Teaiwa, Teresia.

  Searching act Nei Nim'anoa (poetry), Suva: Mana Publications, 1995

• Teaiwa, Teresia. I glance at see Fiji: poetry and sound (CD of poetry), featuring Nonsteroidal Mallon, sound design by Hinemoana Baker, 2008
• Teaiwa, Teresia and Siga Figiel. Terenesia: Amplified poetry favour songs (CD of poetry gift music), 2000
• Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa, Last virgin in paradise: a serious comedy, 2001, ISBN 982-02-0317-1
• Teaiwa, Teresia.

  "Real Natives Talk let somebody see Love" (creative non-fiction), in Niu Voices: Contemporary Pacific Fiction 1. Wellington: Huia, 2006: 35–40. ISBN 1-86969-254-3

• Teaiwa, Teresia. Sweat and Salt Water (Book), 2021 ISBN 9781776564347

References

External links