scholarly journals Asia Pacific Report: A New Zealand Nonprofit Journalism Model for Campus-Based Social Justice Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Profit Model ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Pacific

For nine years, the Pacific Media Centre research and publication unit at Auckland University of Technology has published journalism with an ‘activist’ edge to its style of reportage raising issues of social justice in New Zealand’s regional backyard. It has achieved this through partnerships with progressive sections of news media and a non-profit model of critical and challenging assignments for postgraduate students in the context of coups, civil war, climate change, human rights, sustainable development and neo-colonialism.  An earlier Pacific Scoop venture (2009-2015) has morphed into an innovative venture for the digital era, Asia Pacific Report (APR) (http://asiapacificreport.nz/), launched in January 2016. Amid the current global climate of controversy over ‘fake news’ and a ‘war on truth’ and declining credibility among some mainstream media, the APR project has demonstrated on many occasions the value of independent niche media questioning and challenging mainstream agendas. In this article, a series of case studies examines how the collective experience of citizen journalism, digital engagement and an innovative public empowerment journalism course can develop a unique online publication. The article traverses some of the region’s thorny political and social issues—including the controversial police shootings of students in Papua New Guinea in June 2016.

scholarly journals Asia Pacific Report: A New Zealand nonprofit journalism model for campus-based social justice media

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Digital Engagement

For nine years, the Pacific Media Centre research and publication unit at Auckland University of Technology has published journalism with an ‘activist’ edge to its style of reportage raising issues of social justice in New Zealand’s regional backyard. It has achieved this through partnerships with progressive sections of news media and a nonprofit model of critical and challenging assignments for postgraduate students in the context of coups, civil war, climate change, human rights, sustainable development and neo-colonialism.  An earlier Pacific Scoop venture (2009-2015) has morphed into an innovative venture for the digital era, Asia Pacific Report (APR) (http://asiapacificreport.nz/), launched in January 2016. Amid the current global climate of controversy over ‘fake news’ and a ‘war on truth’ and declining credibility among some mainstream media, the APR project has demonstrated on many occasions the value of independent niche media questioning and challenging mainstream agendas. In this article, a series of case studies examines how the collective experience of citizen journalism, digital engagement and an innovative public empowerment journalism course can develop a unique online publication. The article traverses some of the region’s thorny political and social issues—including the controversial police shootings of students in Papua New Guinea in June 2016.

scholarly journals Governing resilient cities for planetary flourishing in the Asia-Pacific

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1359-1371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Ann Miller ◽  
Mike Douglass ◽  
Jonathan Rigg
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Water Demands ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Urban Energy

For the first time in 2019, the Asia-Pacific became a majority urban region. The unprecedented pace and magnitude of urbanisation across Asia and the Pacific has exposed tens of millions of urban residents to heightened risks and vulnerabilities associated with the expanding ecological footprint of urban energy, food and water demands and the increasingly severe effects of global climate change. This special issue directs attention toward the challenges, innovations and examples of best practice in environmental governance for urban resilience in the Asia-Pacific region. Our understanding of urban resilience is tied to the concept of planetary flourishing that links the health and well-being of urban populations with sustainability behaviours that promote regeneration of the biosphere while redistributing environmental risks and benefits in more socially inclusive and equitable ways.

scholarly journals Bearing Witness 2017: Year 2 of a Pacific climate change storytelling project

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Regional Environment ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

In 2016, the Pacific Media Centre responded to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston by initiating the Bearing Witness journalism project and dispatching two postgraduate students to Viti Levu to document and report on the impact of climate change (Robie & Chand, 2017). This was followed up in 2017 in a second phase of what was hoped would become a five-year mission and expanded in future years to include other parts of the Asia-Pacific region. This project is timely, given the new 10-year Strategic Plan 2017-2026 launched by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in March and the co-hosting by Fiji of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP23) climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, during November. The students dispatched in 2017 on the  ‘bearing witness’ journalism experiential assignment to work in collaboration with the Pacific Centre for the Environment and Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD) and the Regional Journalism Programme at the University of the South Pacific included a report about the relocation of a remote inland village of Tukuraki. They won the 2017 media and trauma prize of the Asia-Pacific Dart Centre, an agency affiliated with the Columbia School of Journalism. This article is a case study assessing the progress with this second year of the journalism project and exploring the strategic initiatives under way for more nuanced and constructive Asia-Pacific media storytelling in response to climate change.

scholarly journals Commentary: Embracing Culture as Essential to Pacific People

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halaevalu F.O. Vakalahi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Available Information

The existing written literature on Pacific people is generally limited and available information is often incomplete, inaccurate or outdated. In many geographical locations, including the United States, literature focusing specifically on Pacific people is extremely sparse because it is often subsumed within broader coverage of people throughout the Asia-Pacific region. As such, the experiences are often trivialised. The Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology is filling gaps in contemporary psychology. It is exposing the world to the phenomenally rich and diverse cultures and people of the Pacific Rim. This is not only groundbreaking; it is also a form of social justice work. It advocates the use of a cultural lens in viewing the world and human behaviour; in this case a Pacific-culture lens that emphasises inclusivity, collectivity and reciprocity. Helping to promote a social justice movement that celebrates and honours the rich and extraordinarily diverse region of the Pacific will continue to contribute to the betterment of research, services and programming in today's diverse society. Furthermore, it will contribute to the journal's quest to become a preferred forum for the ??First People of the Pacific inside and outside of their Pacific home.

scholarly journals Western media ‘elite’models challenged by PNG research

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-213
Author(s):  
Patrick Craddock
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Communication Culture ◽  
New Britain ◽  
Information Gaps

Reviewed book edited by Evangelia Papoutsaki, Michael McManus and Patrick Matbob Publication date: October, 2011 More than 20 authors have been included in Communication, Culture and Society in Papua New Guinea: Yu Tok Wanem? This should surely be the book of the month on media in the Pacific. The editors have divided the book into four themes focusing on: mainstream media issues; social issues; information gaps and development issues, and the search for solutions. A glance at the mini-profiles of the authors show that many come from a range of PNG backgrounds, including the Highlands, Bougainville, New Ireland, Manus and East New Britain. Also represented in the book are well-known media academics from New Zealand and Australia.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC IN PROMOTING REGIONAL COOPERATION IN PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
E.N. Yakovleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
Basic Content

The article is devoted to the activities of the UN ESCAP in terms of promoting the improvement of life of persons with disabilities in the Asia-Pacific region. In general, the problem of protecting and ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities is acutely on the agenda of most states of the world. But the urgency of this problem is not lost: people with disabilities face many violations of their rights in all spheres of society. The scientific novelty of this work is justified by the lack of research into the activities of the UN regional commissions in addressing pressing economic and social issues. Using comparative legal and formal legal methods, the work analyzes the unique experience of ESCAP in organizing three regional decades of disabled people; the main documents of the commission which provide carrying out of program actions are considered; the basic content of these documents is revealed; their features are allocated. The study concludes that ESCAP has made a significant contribution to promoting international standards on the rights of persons with disabilities in national policies of States in the region.

scholarly journals Commentary: Embracing Culture as Essential to Pacific People

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-89
Author(s):  
Halaevalu F.O. Vakalahi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Available Information

The existing written literature on Pacific people is generally limited and available information is often incomplete, inaccurate or outdated. In many geographical locations, including the United States, literature focusing specifically on Pacific people is extremely sparse because it is often subsumed within broader coverage of people throughout the Asia-Pacific region. As such, the experiences are often trivialised. The Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology is filling gaps in contemporary psychology. It is exposing the world to the phenomenally rich and diverse cultures and people of the Pacific Rim. This is not only groundbreaking; it is also a form of social justice work. It advocates the use of a cultural lens in viewing the world and human behaviour; in this case a Pacific-culture lens that emphasises inclusivity, collectivity and reciprocity. Helping to promote a social justice movement that celebrates and honours the rich and extraordinarily diverse region of the Pacific will continue to contribute to the betterment of research, services and programming in today's diverse society. Furthermore, it will contribute to the journal's quest to become a preferred forum for the ??First People of the Pacific inside and outside of their Pacific home.

scholarly journals Corruption in the Pacific - a threat to cultural identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-92
Author(s):  
Julie Cleaver
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
News Media ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
The South ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World

This is an edited transcript of a panel discussion at a Pacific preconference of the World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC) congress in Auckland in July 2016 that relates to fundamentally crucial issues about development in the region. As the world comes more intensely interested in what is going on in the Pacific. Numerous international treaties have been signed with interest in the Pacific from the European Union, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank in partnership with the South Pacific Forum as well as massive interest from foreign donors. How these resources are being deployed is actually crucial to successful development and many news media are trying to trace where the money goes. This is probably one of the biggest challenges, aside from global climate change and the depleting fishery resources, facing the Pacific and is a threat to cultural identity. ‘Corruption is much like cancer: it’s got to be treated early, otherwise there’s going to be massive expensive interventions, as we see in Africa, as we see in Asia, and as we see in South America,’ says panel convenor Fuimaono Tuiasau of Transparency International New Zealand. Panellists were: Dr Shailendra Singh, coordinator of the University of the South Pacific journalism programme, Alexander Rheeney, editor-in-chief of the PNG Post-Courier, and Kalafi Moala, owner, publisher and editor of Taimi ‘o Tonga.

scholarly journals Māui Street

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Waitoa
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Literary Journal ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
The Guardian

For better or worse, the emergence of social media has created platforms for a range of diverse voices often left out of mainstream media. In particular, Indigenous voices have found amplification through new media channels that allow Indigenous people to tell their own stories rather than being “othered” as a subject in someone else’s. Morgan Godfery’s Māui Street blog was a New Zealand example of this potential to subvert traditional political commentary. Beginning as a university student addressing a variety of Indigenous and other political issues, Godfery has carved a path over three electoral cycles (and counting) as an astute observer and analyst of political and social issues in New Zealand, the Pacific region and beyond. Outside of his blog he has written articles for online and hard copy newspapers and magazines; peer-reviewed academic journals; and book chapters. He has also provided comment on radio and television. Māui Street is now the curation of published pieces from across sources such as The Guardian, E-tangata, Overland Literary Journal and The Spinoff in addition to the original blogsite.

scholarly journals Conflicts challenge the Asian news media

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 230-233
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
News Media ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Special Edition

During the 1980s, I reported extensively on the indigenous Kanak struggle for political and social justice and independence in New Caledonia. Twice I was arrested by French troops in the course of my conflict reporting—once at gunpoint. (This saga was covered at length in my 1989 book Blood on their Banner.) Also, over this period I reported on social justice, human rights and conflicts in the Philippines, coediting a special edition of the journalists' union magazine Diarista. It is agaisnt this background- and also running a postgraduate course in Asia-Pacific Journalism- that i am reviewing these two books. Both are results of special projects in Asian journalism. Both are packed with case studies (13 in Media and Conflict and eight in Blood in thier Hands). 

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