Pasifikafuturism

Names

• Pasifikafuturism
• Pasifikafuturisms
• Pasifika Futurism
• Pasifika Futurisms
• Can overlap with Oceania Futurisms and Pacific Futurism, though "Pasifika" refers to the Indigenous peoples, populations and diasporas of certain parts of Oceania, sometimes including or excluding Māori
• Can overlap with Futurisms in Oceania, such as Polynesian Futurism(s), Melanesian Futurism(s), Micronesian Futurism(s), Pacific Islander Futurism(s), Samoan Futurism(s), Tongan Futurism(s), Fiji Futurism(s), Māori Futurism(s), Hawaiian Futurism(s), Aeotearoa Futurism(s) and more
• Can overlap with Indigenous Futurism(s) including Tropical Futurism(s), Island Futurisms, Archipelagic Futurisms, Solarpunk and more

Artists and Creators

• Gina Cole (NZ, Tāmaki Makaurau)
• Solomon Enos (US, Hawai'i)
• Sione Teumohenga aka LonelySpeck
• Celina Tupou-Fulivai aka Heliaki

Curators and Theorists

• Gregory Loui (US|Hawai'i)

Conferences and Symposiums

• "Pacific Futurism", CLASS Annual Research Conference, University of Guam, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, March 2024.

Publications

Books

Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco Literatures, Edited by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava and Craig Santos Perez, 2022

Na Viro by Gina Cole, 2022

• Gina Cole, Na Viro, Huia Publishers, June 27 2022.
• Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, Craig Santos Perez (Eds.), Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures, The New Oceania Literary Series, University of Hawai'i Press, 420pp, August 2022.

Videos, Podcasts, Radio

• Sione Teumohenga aka LonelySpeck (Ed.), "Pasifikafuturism" Playlist, Spotify, 2022-present.
• Yasmine Wright Gittins, Gina Cole, "Pasifikafuturism: The new science fiction genre sending Pacific Islanders to space", ABC Radio Australia, May 30 2023.
• Sione Teumohenga aka LonelySpeck (Ed.), "Liquid Homelands--Pasifikafuturism by Sione Teumohenga", FBi Radio, Soundcloud, January 2024.

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters

• "Pasifikafuturism - embracing Pacific conceptions of the future", Massey News, Massey University, Te Kunenga Ki Pūrihuroa, September 01 2022.
• Gina Cole, "'Pasifikafuturism': The new genre of science fiction invented by author Gina Cole", Stuff.co.nz, October 29 2022.
• Gregory Loui, "Pasifika Futurism and Peacebuilding", Institute for Climate and Peace, Medium.com, July 24 2023.
• Gina Cole, "Wayfinding Pasifikafuturism: An Indigenous Science Fiction Vision of the Ocean in Space", The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, 2023.

Theses

• Gina Cole, Wayfinding Pasifikafuturism : an indigenous science fiction vision of the ocean in space, PhD in Creative Writing Thesis, Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand, 2020.

See Also

Futurisms, Indigenous Futurism, Tropical Futurism, Polynesian Futurism, Māori Futurism, Global South Futurisms, Adivasi Futurism, Chicanafuturism, Aboriginal Futurism, Subaltern Futurism, Amazofuturism, New World, Post Western, Afrofuturism, Decolonization, Queer Futurism, Ethno Futurism