3. Inside Us the Unborn: Genealogies, Futures, Metaphors, and the Opposite of Zombies

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Te Declension of History 1
5. Part One: Genealogies of the Future
6. 1. Horizons and Rifts in Conversations about Climate Change in Oceania 17
7. 2. Genetic Drift: Pacific Pasts and Futures 49
8. 3. Inside Us the Unborn: Genealogies, Futures, Metaphors, and the Opposite of Zombies 69
9. 4. A Different Historiography for “A Handful of Chickpeas Flung over the Sea”: Approaching the Federated States of Micronesia’s Deeper Past 81
10. Part Two: Transit Futures
11. 5. “Time Is on Our Side”: Shipping and the Coming of Flight in the Pacific 107
12. 6. Imagined Futures in the Past: Empire, Place, Race, and Nation in the Mapping of Oceania 131
13. Part Tree: Asian Pacifics
14. 7. Imperial Futures and India’s Pacifics: Space, Temporality, and the Textures of Empire 157
15. 8. Unbound Space: Migration, Aspiration, and the Making of Time in the Cantonese Pacific 178
16. Part Four: Weedy Historicities
17. 9. “Return of the Native”: Two Routes Back for a “Dying Race ” 207
18. 10. Education for the Future: University of Hawai‘i Sociology, Assimilationist Historicity, and the Making of Settler Colonial Culture 224
19. 11. “A Lasting Benefit for a New Race”? Rev. J. F. H. Wohlers and Racial Amalgamation in Southern New Zealand 239
20. 12. On the Beach in the Marquesas: Weedy Historicities and Prosthetic Futures 263
21. Afterword: Pacific Futurities 280
22. Contributors 295
23. Index 299