Overview

In this book, Hunter H. Fine examines traditional seafaring practices in Oceania to establish a fuller understanding of the ways in which our everyday practices can illuminate aspects of power, representation, social advocacy, and truth. Fine considers how circulatory maritime voyages resulted in a shared network of practices and knowledge that have been passed down to the descendants of these seafaring cultures, who still engage in and teach them in present day, most prominently in Micronesia. Positioning the voyages themselves and the practices that enabled them as embodied forms of writing and theory—both in everyday life and as public performances of social advocacy—Fine proposes a critical theory based in both traditional seafaring and poststructuralist rhetorical theory. Through this new framework, the book illustrates how an Indigenous body of knowledge has formed the foundations for contemporary maritime practices, how it has functioned as both domestic and international advocacy and resistance, and how these various practices work together to provide an epistemological alternative to Western modernity/coloniality.

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Author:   Hunter H. Fine
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:  

9781666937671

ISBN 10:   1666937673
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   19 March 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

Introduction: This is Not a Voyage 1. Toward a New Theory of Maritime Resistance and Advocacy 2. Historical Seafaring in Oceania and Western Denial 3. Traditional Seafaring in Oceania Practices and Social Advocacy 4. Traditional Seafaring in Oceania Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy 5. Traditional Seafaring in Oceania, He‘e Nalu, and Surfing 6. The Social Construction of the Beach, Indigeneity, and Maritime Resistance Conclusion: This is a Voyage Works Cited Index

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Author Information

Hunter H. Fine is Associate Professor of Communication in the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Guam, Guam.

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