{"id":612,"date":"2023-05-24T13:29:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T20:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/transpacific-studies\/?page_id=612"},"modified":"2023-10-23T08:58:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:58:17","slug":"the-sea-is-rising-narrating-climate-change-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/the-sea-is-rising-narrating-climate-change-in-the-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sea is Rising: Narrating Climate Change in the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/past-events\/\">&lt; Back to Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>December 11th, 2013 \u2013 The Sea is Rising: Narrating Climate Change in the Pacific, presented by Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA)<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-613 size-full\" src=\"\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/dec_11.png\" alt=\"The Sea is Rising Event poster\" width=\"499\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/dec_11.png 499w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/188\/2023\/05\/dec_11-226x300.png 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/>Twenty years ago, the Tongan anthropologist Epeli Hau`ofa published his deeply influential essay \u201cOur Sea of Islands,\u201d arguing that the legacies of colonial belittlement that render the Pacific as \u201cislands in a far sea\u201d need to be replaced with a more accurate and world-enlarging view. Instead, he argued, we must recognize the primacy of the largest ocean on the planet which facilitated both the legacies of Pacific voyaging as well as contemporary circuits of globalization, rendering the region as \u201ca sea of islands\u201d better known as Oceania. Hau`ofa\u2019s work made a tremendous contribution to the fields of indigenous, cultural and literary studies of the region. While Hau`ofa was concerned with the ecological health of the ocean, he could not have foreseen the ways in which climate change, particularly sea-level rising, has transformed islands that are in fact threatened by the expansion of the sea, faced with a new era of what has increasingly been termed \u201ccarbon colonialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic changes to the geographies of low-lying atolls in the Pacific have generated an unprecedented body of cultural narratives that are translating the urgency of climate change mitigation to a global audience, creating a new oceanic imaginary. This paper will explore the rise in documentaries that are visualizing the challenges faced by island communities such as Tokelau, Tuvalu and Kiribati as they adapt and, increasingly, migrate in response to the erosion and salinization of their lands, and raise questions as to the various narrative methods these texts employ, considering how they contribute to the visual production of climate change discourse in the global North. Produced, in-part, with generous support from the USC Department of American Studies &amp; Ethnicity (ASE) as part of the Hemispheric Graduate Student Initiative (HEMI GSI) Conference.<\/p>\n<p>About the speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/english.ucla.edu\/people-faculty\/elizabeth-deloughrey\/\">Elizabeth DeLoughrey<\/a> is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UCLA. She is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/uhpress.hawaii.edu\/title\/routes-and-roots-navigating-caribbean-and-pacific-island-literatures\/\">Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures<\/a> (2007 U Hawai`i Press) and the co-editor of the volumes &#8220;Postcolonial Ecologies: Literature and the Environment&#8221; (2010 Oxford UP), &#8220;Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture&#8221; (2005 U Virginia Press) as well as the special journal issues New Literatures Review (2011) (on island literatures) and Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment (ISLE) (on postcolonial ecocriticism). She is currently editing a collection called Global Ecologies: Postcolonial Approaches to the Environmental Humanities and writing a manuscript about climate change, empire, and islands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-612","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Sea is Rising: Narrating Climate Change in the Pacific - Center for Transpacific Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/the-sea-is-rising-narrating-climate-change-in-the-pacific\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Sea is Rising: Narrating Climate Change in the Pacific - 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