Open AccessThe Pacific Festivals of Aotearoa New Zealand: Negotiating Place and Identity in a New Homeland
Author(s) -
Fuli Pereira
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of new zealand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2324-3740
pISSN - 1176-306X
DOI - 10.26686/jnzs.v0i23.3993
Subject(s) - aotearoa , homeland , negotiation , identity (music) , identity negotiation , project commissioning , sociology , media studies , biculturalism , ethnology , publishing , anthropology , gender studies , political science , aesthetics , social science , art , law , psychology , politics , neuroscience , neuroscience of multilingualism
The formation of cultural identity within the diasporic Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand is the central concern here. Multi-layered in nature and riddled with incongruities as lived realities, identity negotiation is as complex and dynamic as the fieldwork site selected for the research basis of this publication – that is, the two major Pacific festivals held annually in Aotearoa New Zealand; Wellington’s Positively Pasifika Festival and Auckland’s Pasifika Festival.