4 Leveraging Vanua: Metaphysics, Nature …
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Ryle J (2005) Roots of land and church: The Christian state debate in Fiji. Int J Study Christ Church
5(1):58–78
Ryle J (2010) My God, my land: Interwoven paths of Christianity and tradition in Fiji. Ashgate,
Aldershot
Scheyvens R, Russell M (2012) Tourism, land tenure and poverty alleviation in Fiji. Tour Geogr
14(1):1–25
Strang V (2017) The Gaia complex: ethical challenges to an anthropocentric ‘common future’.
In: Brightman M, Lewis J (eds) The anthropology of sustainability: beyond development and
progress. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA, pp 207–228
Sutton V (2005) Custom, tradition and science in the South Pacific: Fiji’s new Environmental
Management Act and Vanua. J S Pac Law 9(2)
Taylor B (2015) Religion to the rescue (?) in an age of climate disruption. J Study Relig, Nat Cult,
7–18
Taylor B, Van Wieren G, Zaleha B (2016) Lynn White Jr. and the greening-of-religion hypothesis.
Conserv Biol 30(5):1000–1009
The Fijian Government (2010) Clarification on native lands commission. Retrieved from https://
www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Centre/News/Clarification-on-Native-Lands-Commission
Thornley A (2002) Exodus of the ITaukei: The Weslayan Church in Fiji: 1848–74. Institute of
Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva
Tomlinson M (2009) Efficacy, truth, and silence: language ideologies in Fijian Christian conversions.
Comp Stud Soc Hist 51(1):64–90
Tomlinson M, Bigitibau S (2016) Theology of Mana and Sau in Fiji. In: Tomlinson M, K¯ awika T
(eds) New Mana: transformations of a classic concept in Pacific languages and cultures. ANU
Press, Acton, Australia, pp 237–256
Tucker M (1994) An ecological cosmology. In: Chapple C (ed) Ecological prospects: scientific,
religious, and aesthetic perspectives. State University of New York Press, Albany, USA, pp
105–126
Tuwere I (2002) Vanua: towards a Fijian theology of place. Institute of Pacific Studies, University
of the South Pacific and College of St John the Evangelist, Suva
Unger R, Smolin, L (2015) The singular universe and the reality of time: a proposal in natural
philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
United Nations (2015a) Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
United Nations. (2015b). The Paris agreement
Walter M (1978) Analysis of Fijian traditional social organization: the confusion of local and descent
groupings. Ethnol 17(3):351–366
White L (1967) The historical roots of our ecologic crisis. Science 155:1203–1207
Whitehead AN (1925) Science and the modern world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Williams R (1980) Problems in materialism and culture. Verso, London
Francisco Gelves-Gómez is a PhD (Geography) student and sessional academic at the School of
Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast. He is also a researcher with the Environmental
Social Science Research Group from The University of Melbourne. Francisco’s main academic
work is at the interface between the natural and social sciences, particularly focused on critical aspects of biodiversity conservation and human and more-than-human dimensions of conservation sciences and climate change. He also studies complex socio-ecological systems and the
application of these forms of thinking for management and governance of land and sea.
Shannon Brincat is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University
of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. His most recent project, The Spiral World, traces dialectical
thinking in the Axial Age. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently From
International Relations to World Civilizations: The contributions of Robert W. Cox and Dialectics
and World Politics. He is also a co-editor of Global Discourse.
79
Ryle J (2005) Roots of land and church: The Christian state debate in Fiji. Int J Study Christ Church
5(1):58–78
Ryle J (2010) My God, my land: Interwoven paths of Christianity and tradition in Fiji. Ashgate,
Aldershot
Scheyvens R, Russell M (2012) Tourism, land tenure and poverty alleviation in Fiji. Tour Geogr
14(1):1–25
Strang V (2017) The Gaia complex: ethical challenges to an anthropocentric ‘common future’.
In: Brightman M, Lewis J (eds) The anthropology of sustainability: beyond development and
progress. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA, pp 207–228
Sutton V (2005) Custom, tradition and science in the South Pacific: Fiji’s new Environmental
Management Act and Vanua. J S Pac Law 9(2)
Taylor B (2015) Religion to the rescue (?) in an age of climate disruption. J Study Relig, Nat Cult,
7–18
Taylor B, Van Wieren G, Zaleha B (2016) Lynn White Jr. and the greening-of-religion hypothesis.
Conserv Biol 30(5):1000–1009
The Fijian Government (2010) Clarification on native lands commission. Retrieved from https://
www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Centre/News/Clarification-on-Native-Lands-Commission
Thornley A (2002) Exodus of the ITaukei: The Weslayan Church in Fiji: 1848–74. Institute of
Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva
Tomlinson M (2009) Efficacy, truth, and silence: language ideologies in Fijian Christian conversions.
Comp Stud Soc Hist 51(1):64–90
Tomlinson M, Bigitibau S (2016) Theology of Mana and Sau in Fiji. In: Tomlinson M, K¯ awika T
(eds) New Mana: transformations of a classic concept in Pacific languages and cultures. ANU
Press, Acton, Australia, pp 237–256
Tucker M (1994) An ecological cosmology. In: Chapple C (ed) Ecological prospects: scientific,
religious, and aesthetic perspectives. State University of New York Press, Albany, USA, pp
105–126
Tuwere I (2002) Vanua: towards a Fijian theology of place. Institute of Pacific Studies, University
of the South Pacific and College of St John the Evangelist, Suva
Unger R, Smolin, L (2015) The singular universe and the reality of time: a proposal in natural
philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
United Nations (2015a) Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
United Nations. (2015b). The Paris agreement
Walter M (1978) Analysis of Fijian traditional social organization: the confusion of local and descent
groupings. Ethnol 17(3):351–366
White L (1967) The historical roots of our ecologic crisis. Science 155:1203–1207
Whitehead AN (1925) Science and the modern world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Williams R (1980) Problems in materialism and culture. Verso, London
Francisco Gelves-Gómez is a PhD (Geography) student and sessional academic at the School of
Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast. He is also a researcher with the Environmental
Social Science Research Group from The University of Melbourne. Francisco’s main academic
work is at the interface between the natural and social sciences, particularly focused on critical aspects of biodiversity conservation and human and more-than-human dimensions of conservation sciences and climate change. He also studies complex socio-ecological systems and the
application of these forms of thinking for management and governance of land and sea.
Shannon Brincat is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University
of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. His most recent project, The Spiral World, traces dialectical
thinking in the Axial Age. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently From
International Relations to World Civilizations: The contributions of Robert W. Cox and Dialectics
and World Politics. He is also a co-editor of Global Discourse.