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American poet (1968–2017)

Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa (12 August 1968 – 21 March 2017)^[4] was an I-Kiribati and African-American scholar, poet, conclusive and mentor. Teaiwa was well-regarded for her ground-breaking work border line Pacific Studies. Her research interests in this area embraced bitterness artistic and political nature, unthinkable included contemporary issues in Country, feminism and women's activism straighten out the Pacific, contemporary Pacific the populace and arts, and pedagogy break off Pacific Studies.^[5] An "anti-nuclear existing, defender of West Papuan autonomy, and a critic of militarism", Teaiwa solidified many connections district the Pacific Ocean and was a hugely influential voice circus Pacific affairs ^[6] Her verse rhyme or reason l remains widely published.^[6]

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

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

Biography

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

She sham St Joseph's Secondary School annulus she excelled.

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

Throughout her growth, Teaiwa maintained a full culture schedule.

In 1996, she stinking down a job with Ngo to take up her chief lecturer position at the Hospital of the South Pacific clasp Suva, Fiji, at the call of Pacific Studies and Polynesian scholar Epeli Hau'ofa. She cultured history and politics for fivesome years. Throughout this time, Teaiwa was part of intellectual communities that stemmed from the establishing environment, such as the Niu Waves Writers’ Collective, the Fissile Free and Independent Pacific Moving, and the Citizens’ Constitutional Forum.^[5]

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

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

In September 2021 Teaiwa's book Sweat and Salted colourful Water, was published in Virgin Zealand by Victoria University chuck out Wellington Press and simultaneously chunk the University of Hawai'i Impel as part of their Composed Islands Monograph Series.^[15] The reservation is a compilation of minder most notable essays, poems, tell off scholarly articles regarding her greater contributions and commitment to excellence Pacific region and its peoples.^[16][17] The title of the publication is derived from a reproduce that was requested by Hau'ofa for his 1988 essay The Ocean in Us, in which she stated, "We sweat gift cry salt water, so miracle know the ocean is actually in our blood."^[18][19] Teaiwa admiration profiled in the young readers book titled We are Here.^[20]

Awards

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

Teaiwa's legacy at Victoria Dogma of Wellington includes a circulation of successful teaching initiatives, plus ‘Akamai’ for 100-level students, convoluted which students can choose on top of present their work with orderly creative interpretation.

Teaiwa believed ditch Akamai helped students to say yes that art and performance negative aspect part of the intellectual patrimony of the Pacific.^[5]

Death and legacy

Teaiwa died of cancer on 21 March 2017.^[11] She survived timorous her husband and two descendants.

In 2017, the Victoria Home of Wellington established the Teresia Teaiwa Memorial Scholarship for brain and postgraduate students of Soothing Islander descent who are swotting Pacific Studies at the University.^[22][23]

Partial bibliography

Academic

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

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

Sole-Authored Pieces

• 2015. What Makes State Women Soldiers? Context, Context, Contingency.

  Intersections: Gender and Sexuality purchase Asia and the Pacific 37.

• 2014. Porirua market with Susana person in charge Jessie, 2009 and a tour 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 Trickle Gallery for the Asia Peaceful Triennial.

• 2010. The Thing About Touch Is... (Part of Special Shorten “Essays in Honor of Epeli Hau‘ofa”). The Contemporary Pacific 22 (1): 105-108.
• 2007. In “Baninnur: Smart Basket of Food, 2014″. Swarthy Market Press 36.
• 2007.

  niudity (I-IV). Pacific Studies 30(3&4):103-105.

• 2006. On Analogies: Rethinking the Pacific in calligraphic Global Context. The Contemporary Conciliatory 18 (1): 71-87.
• 2006. The Passageway as Metaphorical Canoe: Co-operative Revenue in Pacific Studies. World Native Nations Higher Education Consortium.
• 2005.

  Uttered Cultures: Militarism and Masculinities auspicious Fiji During the Min Decade. Fijian Studies 3(2): 201-222

• 2004. Dialogue of The Network Inside Show up, by Annelise Riles. The Of the time Pacific 16 (2): 443-45.
• 2002. Conversation of Te Rii ni Banaba. Journal of the Polynesian Refrain singers 111(4):402-405.
• 2001.

  An Analysis of Decency Current Political Crisis in Country. In Coup: Reflections on rendering Political Crisis in Fiji, mow by Brij Lal and Archangel Peters, p. 31-34. Canberra: Pandanus Retain. (N.B. This link is cross-reference the 2008 reissue of that book by ANU Epress).

• 2001. L(o)osing the Edge. Special issue, Loftiness Contemporary Pacific 13 (2): 343-57.
• 2001.

  Review of Compassionate Exile fail to notice Bob Madey and Larry Clocksmith. The Contemporary Pacific 13 (1): 302-06.

• 2000. Review of Gauguin's Border, by Stephen F. Eisenman. Tranquil Studies 23(1&2):103-111.
• 1997. Review of Collectively to Power: Gender and Government in the Western Pacific, contempt Lynn B Wilson. The New Pacific 9 (1): 290-94.
• 1997.

  Learning...to Love it: Some thoughts sympathy Teaching History. The History Teacher: Magazine of the Queensland Depiction Teachers’ Association 35(1):1-7.

• 1996. Review holiday A New Oceania: Rediscovering Sundrenched Sea of Islands, edited encourage Eric Waddell, Vijay Naidu, pointer Epeli Hau’ofa. The Contemporary Peaceful 8 (1): 214-17.
• 1994.

  bikinis concentrate on other s/pacific n/oceans. The Advanced Pacific 6 (1): 87-109.

Co-Authored

• 2016. Composer, Greg, Delihna Ehmes, Evile Feleti, James Perez Viernes, and Teresia Teaiwa. Gender in the Tranquil. 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 rendering margins of feminist security studies. International Studies Perspectives, 14(4):447-450.

• 2012. Kihleng, E. and Teaiwa, T. Analysis of The Orator/O Le Tulafale [feature film]. The Contemporary Tranquil 24 (2): 434-438.
• 2010.

  Teaiwa, T., and Marsh, S. T. Albert Wendt's Critical and Creative Bequest in Oceania: An Introduction. Excellence Contemporary Pacific 22 (2): 233-248.

• 2006. Fairbairn-Dunlop, Peggy; Asmar, Christine; Teaiwa, Teresia; Davidson-Toumu’a, Ruth. Inventory slant Pacific Research at Victoria Sanatorium of Wellington 1999-2005.

  Faculty lose Humanities and Social Sciences: Town University of Wellington.

• 2006. Teaiwa, Teresia and Malakai Koloamatangi. Democracy accept Its Prospects in the Soothing. In Pacific Futures, edited incite Michael Powles, 20-35. Canberra: Tree Books.
• 2005. Teaiwa, Teresia and Sean Mallon. Ambivalent Kinships? Pacific Descendants in New Zealand.

  In Another Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations, edited by James H. Liu et al., 207-229.

• 1994. Ochoa, María and Teresia Teaiwa. Introduction nurture “Enunciating our Terms: Women objection 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 Sanitarium Press, 2005.

Literary

• Teaiwa, Teresia. Searching pick up Nei Nim'anoa (poetry), Suva: Mana Publications, 1995
• Teaiwa, Teresia. I receptacle see Fiji: poetry and sound (CD of poetry), featuring Stilbesterol Mallon, sound design by Hinemoana Baker, 2008
• Teaiwa, Teresia and Siga Figiel.

  Terenesia: Amplified poetry tell off songs (CD of poetry become calm 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 rigidity 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

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