Pacific Journalism Monographs : Te Koakoa: Ngā Rangahau

Pacific Journalism Monographs: Conflict, Custom & Conscience

Berrin Yanikkaya, Jim Marbrook, Natalie Robertson, David Robie — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A group of Melanesian women march behind an anti-mining "NO BCL, NO MINING" banner, across a small field in the now-autonomous region of Bougainville. Their protest is ostensibly unseen by the rest of the world. Their protest efforts are local, gender-specific, indigenous, and part of a wider movement to stop any production on the Panguna copper mine. This conflict claimed an estimated 10,000 lives in the 1990s civil war. This photograph is one of the many that we have selected to mark the 10th anniversary of the Pacific Media Centre in Auckland University of Technology's School of Communication Studies.

Fifteen photojournalists and photographers who have worked with the Pacific Media Centre for the past decade have donated their images for this book project. Although the book is not actually for sale, it has been produced as a limited edition for those who have contributed to the PMC. It will also be available in libraries

Conflict, Custom & Conscience

Jim Marbrook — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A group of Melanesian women march behind an anti-mining ‘No BCL No Mining’ banner, across a small field in the now-autonomous region of Bougainville. Their protest is ostensibly unseen by the rest of the world. Their protest efforts are local, gender-specific, indigenous, and part of a wider movement to stop any production on the Panguna copper mine. This conflict claimed an estimated 10,000 lives in the 1990s civil war. This photograph is one of the many that we have selected to mark the 10th anniversary of the Pacific Media Centre in Auckland University of Technology’s School of Communication Studies...

Preface

Berrin Yanikkaya — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Lord, said David, since you do not need
us, why did you create these two worlds?
Reality replied: O prisoner of time, I
was a secret treasure of kindness and
generosity, and I wished this treasure
to be known, so I created a mirror: its
shining face, the heart; its darkened back,
the world; The back would please you if
you've never seen the face. (…)
_{Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, from the poem}_{‘Be Lost in a Call’ in Love is a Stranger (translated by}_{Kabir Helminski). Threshold Books, 1993.}

Roimata Toroa

Natalie Robertson — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I n Te Ao Mãori, the Toroa (albatross) is sacred. Roimata Toroa, albatross tears, is a widely used tukutuku pattern. Derived from the Te Tairawhiti Ngati Porou story of Pourangahua, the pattern speaks of the
misadventures of travelers who take shortcuts in haste to get to port. Pourangahua was an agriculturist who traveling a return journey to Aotearoa to grow kumara, gifted to him by Ruakapenga, a tohunga and learned scientist. Lent two pet albatrosses, Harongarangi and Tiungarangi, by Ruakapenga, Pourangahua is given strict instructions on which hazards to avoid, the care of the birds, and a karakia to give thanksgiving for their safe return. In his hurriedness to see his wife Kaniowai, Pourangahua takes a shortcut, runs into a taniwha (a denotation of hazards), and forgets the karakia and fails to care for the birds,
leading to their grief and eventual demise. Realising he has dishonoured Ruakapenga, Pourangahua tries to cover his mistake, by belatedly doing the karakia, but it is too late. The damage was done...

Voice of the Voiceless

David Robie — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

'The Pacific Islands have long been a refuge,’ wrote celebrated Vanuatu-based investigative photojournalist Ben Bohane in the introduction to his extraordinary 2013 collection The Black Islands, ‘for eccentric
foreigners and castaways too, who often fell into one (or several) of these categories: mercenary, missionary or misfit.’...