Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Introduction: Pacific Futures, Methodological Challenges 1
5. 1 Imagining the Future: An Existential and Practical Activity 28
6. 2 The Hanging of Buliga: A History of the Future in the Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea 48
7. 3 Why the Future is Selfish and Could Kill: Contraception and the Future of Paama 71
8. 4 Gambling Futures: Playing the Imminent in Highland Papua New Guinea 96
9. 5 The Future of Christian Critique: Lost Tribes Discourses in Papua New Guinean Publics 114
10. 6 A Cursed Past and a Prosperous Future in Vanuatu: A Comparison of Different Conceptions of Self and Healing 133
11. 7 Chiefs for the Future? Roles of Traditional Titleholders in the Cook Islands 152
12. 8 A Coup-less Future for Fiji? Between Rhetoric and Political Reality 172
13. 9 The Devouring of the Placenta: The Criss-crossing and Confluence of Cosmological, Geomorphological, Ecological and Economic Cycles of Destruction and Repair in Ruatoria, Aotearoa/New Zealand 196
14. 10 The Human Face of Climate Change: Notes from Rotuma and Tuvalu 226
15. Notes on Contributors 237
16. Index 241