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eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics Repurposing, Recycling, Revisioning: Pacific Arts and the (Post)colonial Jean Anderson https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3280-3225 Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand Abstract Taking a broad approach to the concept of recycling, I refer to a range of works, from sculpture to film, street art and poetry, which depict issues of importance to Indigenous peoples faced with the (after) effects of colonisation. Does the use of repurposed materials and/or the knowledge that these objects are the work of Indigenous creators change the way we respond to these works, and if so, how? Keywords: Pacific artists, food colonisation, reappropriation, speaking back, culture eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics publishes new research from arts, humanities, social sciences and allied fields on the variety and interrelatedness of nature, culture, and society in the tropics. Published by James Cook University, a leading research institution on critical issues facing the worlds’ Tropics. Free open access, Scopus, Google Scholar, DOAJ, Crossref, Ulrich's, SHERPA/RoMEO, Pandora, ISSN 1448-2940. Creative Commons CC BY 4.0. Articles are free to download, save and reproduce. Citation: to cite this article include Author(s), title, eTropic, volume, issue, year, pages and DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.19.1.2020.3733 eTropic 19.1 (2020) Special Issue: ‘Environmental Artistic Practices and Indigeneity’ 186 Introduction his study takes a broad view of recycling, looking at examples from a range of forms of artistic expression, to explore ways in which Indigenous artists in the T Pacific make use of repurposed materials to criticise some of the profoundly unsettling – and enduring – effects of colonisation.
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