Talanoa : building a Pasifika research culture / edited by Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop & Eve Coxon.

1. Where we can ask the questions we don't ask in class? / Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop -- 2. Theorising advantage in a context of disparity : Pacific peoples who grow up in New Zealand / Karlo Mila -- 3. The Pacific festival space : understanding and contextualising the importance of community / Jared Mackley-Crump -- 4. New Zealand's Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) policy : is it delivering 'wins' to employers, workers and Island communities? / Charlotte Bedford -- 5. Pacific fathers and their influence upon and involvement with their children / El-Shadan Tautolo -- 6. Extending the talanoa : weaving Pacific and performative methods for peace research in contemporary Fiji / Tui Nicola Clery -- 7. Street-frequenting young men in Suva, Fiji : beyond the rhetoric : creating partnerships / Patrick Vakaoti -- 8. Ethics & ethnography as an indigenous researcher : a Fijian perspective / Litea Meo-Sewabu -- 9. Exploring Pacific-Tongan research approaches / Telesia Kalavite -- 10. Ethnic avatars : Pacific artists creating digital homelands / Nina Tonga -- 11. 'Spirit, space and stewardship' : a collective approach to becoming Pacific women in the academe / Tanya Samu -- 12. Seeking an understanding of academic reading and readers in higher education / Dr. Ruth Toumu'a.

"The Talanoa post-graduate discussions ... were established as a joint project across New Zealand universities to help attract Pacific post-graduates into the social sciences and to enhance Pacific social researcher capacity by breaking down feelings of academic and geographical isolation Pacific students might experience." -- Back cover.