![]() ![]() May’s humdrum life gets flung into hyperdrive when she’s abducted, but not all aliens are out to probe her. Oceanic tropes and a feminist Oceanic audacity of embodied engagement in the Pacific offer dynamic and gendered intellectual agility which runs counter to the tropical imageries of languid indifference.A wild ride stuffed to the cut-lines with humor, heart, and space shenanigans. However, it also offers a material way of understanding the on-going work with ‘tensions’ and disruptions in their ever present but changeable forms. ![]() In this paper, the audacity of the ocean offers a metaphorical opportunity to carefully reconcile these tensions and provide trajectories for decolonial knowledge-making. The first is the naming of the Pacific and the second is supervising women doctoral candidates from the Pacific. I touch on two ways in which colonial continuities of belittlement are often reinforced, but are also offering hopeful and careful decolonial scholarly futures. The paper asks how a gendered politics of positionality engages with emerging positionalities that uncritically allow for such intolerances. These gendered dynamics circulate around popular culture and imaginaries of Pacific paradise but also problematically around the challenges of long-standing intolerances especially around gender and race. ![]() Not only because these imperatives are highly personalized but also because they are gendered and heavy with generational trauma. In the process, lived experience heightens the commitment to decolonize thinking, language and practice in teaching and research. Throughout the contemporary Pacific, relationships that indigeneity makes possible are emerging as celebrated resistance to post-colonial development anxieties. ![]()
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