Confronting “hybrids” in Oceania

"Decollectivist Strategies in Oceania"

Each action of a decollectivizing employer—be it in the realm of employment practices, information or relational actions—has both real and symbolic dimensions that may be inclusivist, exclusivist or both. While many attempts at decollectivism are crude, Australia has seen the emergence of a coherent model of sophisticated decollectivist behaviour which has policy implications for many countries...

Vitamin D status in Oceania

Oceania is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous states, mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. It generally includes Australia and New Zealand, and is often taken to include New Guinea and Pacific Islands. Though there have been a number of published studies evaluating vitamin D status in Australia and New Zealand, data from the rest of Oceania are lacking.

Challenging Audiences: Critical Ethnography in/for Oceania

The key thread I use to weave these contributions together is the politics of reception (or ‘audience’). Consequently, I invite readers to treat my contribution (somewhat unconventionally) more as a sample reading than as the collection’s conclusion. Following this thread, I hope to encourage you to resist approaching the foregoing arguments as separate and self-contained. Much is gained by ‘re...

Changing Christianity in Oceania: a Regional Overview

Millennium Development Goals: progress in Oceania.

To cite: Vince JD. Arch Dis Child 2015;100(Suppl 1): s63–s65. For the purposes of this commentary, Oceania is understood to encompass the Pacific Island states of Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia including Papua New Guinea (PNG) (but excluding the western half of mainland New Guinea, politically a province of Indonesia), Timor Leste, Australia and New Zealand. In geopolitical Oceania (which ...