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Family Violence and Social Change in the Pacific Islands The Pacific Islands have some of the highest rates of family violence in the world. Addressing the contemporary mutations of Pacific Island families and the shifting understandings of violence in the context of rapid social change, this book investigates the conflict dynamics generated by these transformations. The contributors draw from detailed case studies in a range of Pacific territories to examine family violence in relation to the social, economic, and political situation of native populations as well as individual, collective, and institutional responses to the development of violence within and upon the family. They focus on vernacular understandings, conflicting social norms, the emergence of different types of violent patterns, the impact of violence on individuals and communities, and local attempts at mitigating or combating it. Combining ethnographic expertise with engaged scholarship, this volume offers a vivid account of ongoing social change in Pacific Island societies and a crucial contribution to the understanding of family violence as a social process, cultural construct, and political issue. This book will appeal to scholars with interests in the sociology of violence and the family, Pacific studies, development studies, and the social and cultural anthropology of Oceania. Loïs Bastide is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of French Polynesia, where he is a member of the Équipe d’accueil Sociétés Traditionnelles Contemporaines en Océanie (EASTCO) research team. He is also Associate Researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme du Pacifique (MSH-P) and at the Institute of Sociological Research at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research interests include transnational migrations in Southeast Asia, the management of pandemics, public health crises, natural disasters, and violence in the family. He is currently coordinating a wide-ranging research programme on social change in French Polynesia at the MSH-P. He is the author of Habiter le transnational: Espace, travail et migration entre Java, Kuala Lumpur et Singapour (ENS, 2015). Denis Regnier is Head of Humanities and Social Sciences and Assistant Professor at the University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda. He holds a PhD in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and has previously taught at the University of French Polynesia, where he is a member of the Équipe d’accueil Sociétés Traditionnelles Contemporaines en Océanie (EASTCO) and Associate Researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme du Pacifique (MSH-P). His research interests include the legacies of slavery in the Indian Ocean, the development of social essentialism in Madagascar, and social and public health issues in Africa and the South Pacific. He is the author of Slavery and Essentialism in Highland Madagascar: Ethnography, History, Cognition (Routledge, 2020). Routledge Studies in Family Sociology This series presents the latest research on the sociology of the family, with particu- lar attention to family dynamics, changing family forms and the impact of events in the life-course and societal transformation on family practices. Titles in the series Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States Contemporary Norms and Barriers Richard J. Petts Family Violence and Social Change in the Pacific Islands Edited by Loïs Bastide & Denis Regnier Family Violence and Social Change in the Pacific Islands Edited by Loïs Bastide & Denis Regnier First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Loïs Bastide & Denis Regnier; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Loïs Bastide & Denis Regnier to be identified as authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-0-367-70506-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-70507-7 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-14666-7 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003146667 Typeset in Times New Roman by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii Introduction: family, violence, and social change in the Pacific Islands 1 LOÏS BASTIDE AND DENIS REGNIER 1 Settler violence, family, and whānau violence in Aotearoa New Zealand 20 TRACEY MCINTOSH 2 Placing the children: fostering native Hawaiian children in an American state 37 JUDITH SCHACHTER 3 Transferred children and the production of family violence in French Polynesia: social change and the adaptations of fa’a’amura’a 52 LOÏS BASTIDE 4 Familialism and gender violence in New Caledonia families 67 CHRISTINE SALOMON 5 Naming violence: forms of economic violence in highland Papua New Guinea 82 RICHARD EVES 6 Culture-based counselling at the domestic violence shelter of the Sisters of the Anglican Church of Melanesia in the Solomon Islands 95 XANDRA MIGUEL-LORENZO viii Contents 7 Women-only households in Port Vila, Vanuatu: sites of social resistance 110 DANIELA KRAEMER 8 From structural violence to family violence: insights into perpetrators’ experiences in French Polynesia today 124 MARIE SALAÜN, MIROSE PAIA, AND JACQUES VERNAUDON 9 ‘This is not Vaelens!’: naming and reacting to physical abuse in a Vanuatu school 138 ALICE SERVY 10 Quarrels, corporal punishment, and magical attacks: what is ‘family violence’ in Kiriwina? 151 LOUISE PROTAR 11 Contexts and levels of community violence in highlands Papua New Guinea 165 PAMELA J. STEWART AND ANDREW J. STRATHERN Postface – analysing violence: lessons from a collective reflection 178 MICHEL WIEVIORKA Index 183 Contributors Loïs Bastide is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of French Poly- nesia, where he is a member of the Équipe d’accueil Sociétés Traditionnelles Contemporaines en Océanie (EASTCO) research team. He is also Associate Researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme du Pacifique (MSH-P) and at the Institute of Sociological Research at the University of Geneva, Switzer- land. His research interests include transnational migrations in Southeast Asia, the management of pandemics, public health crises, natural disasters, and vio- lence in the family. He is currently coordinating a wide-ranging research pro- gramme on social change in French Polynesia at the MSH-P. He is the author of Habiter le transnational: Espace, travail et migration entre Java, Kuala Lumpur et Singapour (ENS, 2015). Richard Eves is Emeritus Professor with the Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University, Australia. His work deals with contempo- rary issues in Melanesia, with a particular focus on gender, violence, and the AIDS epidemic. He recently completed research on the Do No Harm project, which examined the relationship between women’s economic empowerment and violence against women in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea, and the project was funded by the Australian government through the Depart- ment of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Devel- opment Programme. He is currently completing an ethnography of contemporary Christianity in Papua New Guinea with a particular focus on the influence of Pentecostalism in New Ireland. He is a co-editor of Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008) and Talking it Through: Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia (Australian National Univer- sity, 2015). Daniela Kraemer is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology at The Uni- versity of New Mexico, USA, and Instructor in Anthropology at Wilfrid Lau- rier University, Canada. Her research explores urbanity and social transformation, particularly in Port Vila, the rapidly growing capital city of Vanuatu. She is currently working on a monograph examining the reterritorial- izing practices of marginalized unemployed young men in urban Vanuatu.

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