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    Big bananas in Kiribati
    (Te Ara Poutama, AUT University, 2015) Brown Pulu, T; Pamatatau, R
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    Fieldwork journals on Tonga's 2014 election: what's so funny about that?
    (Te Ara Poutama, AUT University, 2015) Brown Pulu, T
    This essay presents selected passages from the fieldwork journals of Teena Brown Pulu and Richard Pamatatau on Tonga’s 2014 election. Staged on November 27th, here was the second general election under an amended constitution intended to bring about a more democratic system of parliament and government. Woven together are interrelated factors which field researchers like us – academics who craft their written studies on encounters, observations, and conversations gathered from a specific people and place – experience and live through in day-to-day work. Highlighted in this paper are our reflections and recollections as Richard, a journalism academic, and Teena, an anthropologist, researching in the field while fielding a political climate of ordinary folks’ frustration. By this, Tongan people saw the nineteenth century class-system instituted in the 1875 constitution was fixed to the modified political structure introduced in 2010. Therefore, the thread interlacing our journal excerpts to an analysis of what is taking hold in Tongan political life is satire and wit, and how humour is manoeuvred to criticise and critique power and authority.
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    Making a Punjabi Language Documentary Film in New Zealand for Punjabi and Non-Punjabi Audiences
    (Faculty of Maori and Indigenous Development, Auckland University of Technology, ) Brown Pulu, T; Mukhtar Janjua, A
    The second author interviewed three Punjabi Sikhs in South Auckland on camera in the Punjabi language, and two Punjabi Muslims in Lahore via an online video call where one participant responded in Punjabi and the other in the Urdu language. Their discussions were edited and subtitled in English for a thirteen minute documentary film screened at a migration research symposium and also released on the internet via Punjabi, Indian, and Pakistani multimedia outlets. Our paper speaks about the process of making a Punjabi language documentary in New Zealand for different audiences of university researchers and Punjabi communities. We also present the uncut interviews and the internet link to the film in Punjabi with English subtitles.
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    Migrant Women’s Views of Secondary Education in Tonga
    (Te Ara Poutama, Auckland University of Technology, ) Kautai, F; Brown Pulu, T
    This article contextualises interview data selected from Fe’aomoengalu Kautai’s online talanoa with Tongan migrant women in Auckland for her Master of Arts thesis. From the women’s discussions of their secondary education experiences in Tonga, their place of birth, a particular theme emerged. They perceived the structure of Tonga’s secondary education system to be weighted heavily on senior students passing state examinations in the English language. Reflecting on their high school years at Takuilau College in the 1970s and 1980s, participants believed that current students would benefit more from classroom teaching and learning in the Tongan language.
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    Stuck in India: Punjabi Temporary Migrants of New Zealand
    (Te Ara Poutama - the Faculty of Maori and Indigenous Development, Auckland University of Technology, 2022-09-30) Brown Pulu, T; Mukhtar, A
    Our paper reflects on creating a short documentary in 2021 centred around an online discussion, which the second author recorded with three Punjabi migrants. At the time of being interviewed, these migrants had New Zealand temporary work and study visas and were stuck in Punjab, India, for more than a year since the New Zealand government announced on 19 March 2020 the international border would be closed indefinitely due to Covid-19. The documentary research found that Punjabis stranded in their country of origin were imploring Punjabis in New Zealand to lobby to the New Zealand state to let them return. As a result, Auckland migrant groups were advocating for temporary migrants to be allowed back.
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    Tonga's Metaphoric Hangings
    (Te Ara Poutama, AUT University, 2015) Brown Pulu, T
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    Transnational Tongan Life
    (Taylor & Francis, 2016-10) Brown Pulu, T; Pamatatau, R
    As a branch of migration studies, transnational studies explores how migrants stay connected to the old country by keeping up loyalties to the homeland where they were born and still have kinfolk still living. The trans signifies patriotism for more than one country. Migrants are devoted to places of residence where they work, live and raise families, and also to the places and peoples from which they have permanently moved.
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    Who defines the Pacific voice?
    (Te Are Poutama, AUT University, 2015) Brown Pulu, T; Pamatatau, R
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    Who's who in the zoo: Tonga election 2014
    (Te Ara Poutama, AUT University, 2014) Brown Pulu, T
    This paper reflects on fieldwork Teena Brown Pulu and Richard Pamatatau conducted in Tonga on the people’s election and the nobles’ election of November 27th 2014. Who’s who in the zoo? Ethnographically speaking we mean what did voters say of the leadership and government needed, and the country’s priorities for moving forward? Furthermore, how was Tongan “life, liberty and security” made sense of? (United Nations, 1948). With Democratic Party leader ‘Akilisi Pohiva elected prime minister for the 2014 to 2018 term of government, what was different now? Written by Teena Brown Pulu with Richard Pamatatau’s fieldwork notes woven in the text, the essay probes two critical interstices. Why do ethnic Tongans insist the authors can critique Tongan politics and society in ways they cannot for risk they will be rebuked by established canons exerting authority and control over citizens? Who then in Tonga can disrupt the taken for granted categories of class, culture, and politics, and who cannot?
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    Zoo in a sea of poop
    (tonganz.net, 2015-08-31) Brown Pulu, T
    The German physicist Albert Einstein defined insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. He could have been describing ‘Akilisi Pohiva and certain ministers of his hand-picked cabinet who developed a condition of repeatedly exhibiting foolhardiness in politics. (Fonua, 2015a). The zoo was behaving badly. Journalist Pesi Fonua wrote about “a screaming match” in parliament, one whale of a tale framed as a political commentary to inform media consumers. (Fonua, 2015b). What did Fonua’s colourful account reveal about the country’s state of affairs and quality of deliberation in the Tongan Legislative Assembly?
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