“[THEY] DANCED, AND, THEN, … IT WAS OUR TURN TO DANCE”: PERFORMATIVE CULTURAL DIPLOMACY BETWEEN TUVALU AND TAIWAN BY JESS MARINACCIO A thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Victoria University of Wellington (2019) Declaration I hereby declare that this thesis is my original work and has not been submitted before to any institution for assessment purposes. To the best of my knowledge, this thesis contains no materials that have been written or published by other people. However, I have acknowledged all sources and have cited these in the References section. Any queries should be directed to
[email protected]. This thesis contains five publishable papers for which I was the sole researcher and primary author. At the moment, part of Chapter 3 has been published by The Contemporary Pacific, and part of Chapter 2, part of Chapter 3, and Chapter 4 are currently or will soon be under review by ANU Press, Pacific Studies, Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, and International Journal of Cultural Policy. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ................................................................................................................... vi Abstract ................................................................................................................................. viii Acronyms and Abbreviations ................................................................................................. x Chapter 1: Introduction