Publications

Selected publications

Recent publications

2024	‘Rugby and Diasporic Fiji Islander Sociality’, in Towards a Pacific Island Sociology of Sport: Current and Emerging Research, edited by Yoko Kanemasu, 185-203. Leeds: Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476-285420240000022010
2024	‘Fijian Migrant Athletes in the World of Professional Rugby’, in Handbook of Sport and Migration, edited by Joseph Maguire, Katie Liston and Mark Falcous, 73-85. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909418.00013
2024	[with Sina Emde and Geir Henning Presterudstuen] ‘(Vaka)Vanua as Weakness, (Vaka)Vanua as Strength: Reflections on Fijian Sociality in Urban and Migrant Environments‘, Anthropological Forum 34(2): 166-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2023.2247177
2024	Review of Jeannette M. Mageo and Bruce M. Knauft (eds.), Authenticity & Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters: New Lives of Old Imaginaries, Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies 12(1): 96-98.

Refereed articles & book chapters

2022	[with Rebecca Hofmann] ‘Explorations into Micronesian mobility: Transforming family and home across borders – an introduction’, Pacific Geographies 58: 4-10. [Note: reviewed by journal editors] https://pacific-geographies.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/PG58_0410.pdf
2021	‘Fiji Islander transborder mobility in the Pacific: The case of Fiji and Japan’, Pacific Geographies 56: 13-22. https://pacific-geographies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/PG56_DOI10.23791_561322_DS.pdf
2017	‘The 1961 British Military Recruitment Campaign in Fiji: Historical Circumstances, Discourses of Fijian Culture and Personal Narratives’, Oceania 87(2): 139-155. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ocea.5158/full
2017	[with Geir Henning Presterudstuen] ‘Bati as Bodily Labour: Rethinking Masculinity and Violence in Fiji’, in Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific, edited by Aletta Biersack and Martha Macintyre. Abingdon: Routledge [initially published in The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 17(3/4) (2016)].
2016	[with Geir Henning Presterudstuen] ‘Bati as Bodily Labour: Rethinking Masculinity and Violence in Fiji’, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 17(3/4): 213-230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2016.1180706
2015	‘Community Life and Discourses among Fiji Islanders in Kantō, Japan’, Anthropological Forum 25(2): 167-186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2014.995153
2015	[with Verena Keck] ‘Contradictions and Complexities: Current Perspectives on Pacific Islander Mobilities’, Anthropological Forum 25(2): 115-130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2014.999644
2014	‘Fiji Islander Rugby Players in Japan: Corporate Rationales and Migration Routes’, Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science 3(3): 250-267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21640599.2014.982339
2014	[with Geir Henning Presterudstuen] ‘Sport Migration and Socio-Cultural Transformation: The Case of Fijian Rugby Union Players in Japan’, International Journal of the History of Sport 31(11): 1359-1373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2014.921907
2014	‘A Coup-Less Future for Fiji? Between Rhetoric and Political Reality’, in Future Selves in the Pacific: Projects, Politics and Interests, edited by William Rollason, 172-195. London: Berghahn.
2012	‘“Fiji has a coup culture!” Discussing Fiji’s ongoing political instability’, Paideuma 58: 45-67.
2012	‘Rugby in Fiji: Unifiying and Dividing a Multi-Cultural Society’, Pacific News 37: 23-28.

Monographs

2012	Das Phänomen der Coup Culture – Politische Konflikte auf den Fidschi-Inseln [Coup Culture: Political Conflicts in the Fiji Islands]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Guest editorships

2022	[with Rebecca Hofmann] Explorations into Micronesian Mobility: Transforming Family and Home across Borders, Special Issue, Pacific Geographies 58. https://pacific-geographies.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/PG58_all.pdf
2015	[with Verena Keck] Current Perspectives on Pacific Islander Mobilities, Special Issue, Anthropological Forum 25(2).

Additional articles and short contributions (non-refereed)

2016	‘Fiji Islanders in the United Kingdom’, in Outrigger: Newsletter of the Pacific Islands Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland, 2 pages.
2013	‘Traditionen und Kulturen in Ozeanien’, in Der Pazifik in Deutschland, edited by Steffi Kornder et al., 11-12. Neuendettelsau: Pazifik Netzwerk.
2011	‘Jenseits der pluralen Gesellschaft: Anmerkungen zur Heterogenität der ‚indischen’ Bevölkerung Fidschis und deren politische Implikationen’, Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien 141: 277-290.

Book reviews

2022	Review of Jacqueline Leckie, Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji, Pacific Affairs 95(1): 190-192.
2021	Review of Anders Emil Rasmussen, In the Absence of the Gift: New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community, Island Studies Journal 16(2): 291-393.
2021	Review of Laurent Dousset und Mélissa Nayral (Hg.), Pacific Realities: Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance, Island Studies Journal 16(1): 388-389.
2018	Review of Niko Besner, Susan Brownell und Thomas F. Carter, The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics, Paideuma 64: 306-308.
2016	Review of Livia Loosen, Deutsche Frauen in den Südsee-Kolonien des Kaiserreichs. Alltag und Beziehungen zur indigenen Bevölkerung, 1884-1919, Anthropos 111(1): 277-278.
2015	Review of  Margret Frenz, Community, Memory, and Migration in a Globalizing World: The Goan Experience, c. 1890 – 1980. Contemporary South Asia 34(4): 490-491.
2014	Review of  Juliane Müller, Migration, Geschlecht und Fußball zwischen Bolivien und Spanien. Paideuma 60: 298-300.
2013	Review of  Ilana Gerson, No Family is an Island: Cultural Expertise Among Samoans in the Diaspora. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19(4): 903-904.

Edited volumes

2014	[with Julika Meinert und Oliver Hasenkamp] Samoa: 50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit. Herausforderungen an einen pazifischen Inselstaat [Samoa: 50 Years of Independence – The Challenges of a Pacific Island State]. Neuendettelsau: Pazifik Netzwerk.

Encyclopaedia entries

2015

Animismus (p. 36), bêche-de-mer (p. 91), Bernatzik, Hugo Adolf (p. 98), Beschneidung (p. 98), Cakobau, Seru (p. 148), Ethnie (p. 250), Fidschi und Rotuma (p. 264), Hamilton-Gordon, Sir Arthur (p. 324), Heyerdahl, Thor (p. 338), indirect rule (p. 362), Malinowski, Bronislaw Kaspar (p. 509), Polyandrie (p. 651), Polygynie (p. 651), Sandelholz (p. 711) and Tätowierung (p. 787), in Hermann Hiery (ed.): Lexikon zur Überseegeschichte. Stuttgart: Steiner.