scholarly journals “Keeping an Eye Out for Women”: Implicit Feminism, Political Leadership, and Social Change in the Pacific Islands

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-95
Author(s):  
Ceridwen Spark ◽  
John Cox ◽  
Jack Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The Pacific

Can women dynasty politicians disrupt social norms of political leadership? A proposed typology of normative change

2021 ◽  
pp. 019251212110482
Author(s):  
Kerryn Baker ◽  
Sonia Palmieri
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Women’S Representation ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Normative Change ◽  
Norm Acceptance

Social norms that legitimise men as political leaders, and undervalue women’s leadership, are a tenacious barrier to women’s representation globally. This article explores the circumstances under which women dynasty politicians, whose legacy connections have provided them with an initial pathway into politics, are able to disrupt these norms. We test a proposed typology of normative change – one that progresses from norm acceptance, to norm modification, then norm resistance – among women dynasty politicians in the Pacific Islands. We find that norms of masculinised political leadership are strong, and in many cases the election of wives, widows, daughters and other relatives of male political actors reinforces these norms through their positioning as ‘placeholders’. Yet some women dynasty politicians can, and do, challenge and extend social norms of leadership. This is especially the case when the ‘legacy advantage’ is a springboard from which women demonstrate – and their publics accept – their own articulation of political leadership.

Development and social change in the Pacific Islands

1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-241
Author(s):  
J.J. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The Pacific

Social Change and Micronesian Suicide Mortality: A Test of Competing Hypotheses

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-32
Author(s):  
Edward D. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Suicide Mortality ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Modern Material ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Competing Hypotheses ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

How do modernizing social changes affect suicide risks for youths in small economically developing societies? Since Durkheim, social researchers have hypothesized that processes of social disintegration and processes of normative cultural disequilibrium can increase suicide rates. A lifestyle incongruity hypothesis has also been proposed. This article tests these competing hypotheses for the epidemic of suicide that occurred on culturally diverse communities of the Pacific Islands of Micronesia. The sample includes 74 municipalities of the Federated States of Micronesia. Multiple regression analyses suggest that the best analytic model includes the degree of urbanization, the levels of social integration, and the incongruity between modern economic resources and achieved modern material lifestyle. These results suggest that researchers should attend more to the way communities aspire to and participate in global markets as opposed to shifting adult role structures and occupations as a site for understanding the relationship between rapid social change and suicide.

scholarly journals A plan nobody hopes they will need: New Zealand and climate change migration

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Cass
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Evacuation Plan

At the Second Pacific Climate Change conference in Wellington in February 2018, New Zealand’s Minister for Pacific Peoples, ‘Aupito Tofae Su’a William Sio, said New Zealand must have policies in place to deal with the possibility of climate induced migration from the Pacific Islands. He described having such a policy in place as being akin to a factory preparing an evacuation plan in case of an earthquake: A vital precaution for something everybody hoped would never be needed. But what would that policy look like, how far forward would planners have to think, what issues are involved and who would be responsible for making sure it was effective? This article examines four key areas of concern that will have to be dealt with if an effective policy on climate change-induced migration is to be developed: Public perceptions, the law, maintaining Island culture and identity and changing the existing media narrative on social change. It identifies three groups of key players in the process: Legislators and legal experts, churches and journalists.

Development and social change in the Pacific Islands

1991 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-84
Author(s):  
Martin Ira Glassner
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The Pacific
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