Unfreedom, Voices, Redress – Plantation Cultures of the Western Pacific

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PUBLICATIONS

Coleman, Deirdre, ‘Pleasure and Pain in the Pacific,’ review essay in The Journal of Pacific History (2025) https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JWWSKRKRARJJ5VWGE3WP/full?target=10.1080/00223344.2025.2500500

Coleman, Deirdre,’Robert Louis Stevenson and German Sāmoa,”Atlantic Studies, Global Currents (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2024.2331327

Edmonds, P., ‘The Case of Nie’s Refusal: Gender, Law and Consent in the Shadow of Pacific Slavery‘, Australian Feminist Law Journal (2021)DOI:
10.1080/13200968.2021.1960621

Togo-Brisby, Jasmine, ‘An Umbilical Cord that was Never Cut’, The Pantograph Punch, (2021) https://www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/an-umbilical-cord-that-was-never-cut.

ARC FUNDING
This research was funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council (ARC). Title: ‘Unfreedom, Voices, Redress: Plantation Cultures of the Western Pacific’. July 2025 – July 2029. DP250100584.

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS
Flinders University – lead organisation
The University of Melbourne
Queensland Museum Kurilpa
University of the South Pacific
University of Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
Flinders University acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which its campuses are located. These are the Traditional Lands of the Arrernte, Dagoman, First Nations of the South East, First Peoples of the River Murray & Mallee region, Jawoyn, Kaurna, Larrakia, Ngadjuri, Ngarrindjeri, Ramindjeri, Warumungu, Wardaman and Yolngu people. We honour their Elders and Custodians past, present and emerging.

Queensland Museum Kurilpa acknowledges the First Peoples – the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters and sky where we live and work.

Unfreedom, Voices, Redress – Plantation Cultures of the Western Pacific

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