National University of Samoa: Recent submissions

  • The Geology of the Samoan Islands 
    Keating, Barbara H. (Springer New York, 1992)
    The Samoan chain consists of high volcanic islands, atolls, and submerged reef banks near the southwest margin of the Pacific plate. The chain is unusual, particularly when compared with the Hawaiian chain, because the ...
  • Blocking Coronavirus 19 Infection via the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein: Initial Steps 
    Whisenant, Jonathan; Burgess, Kevin (ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2020-05-18)
    Recent crystal structure data for protein−protein interactions featuring the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein will inevitably trigger a new wave of research in this area that was not possible before. This Viewpoint outlines a few ...
  • Radiocarbon determinations from the Mulifanua Lapita site, Upolu, Western Samoa 
    Petchey, Fiona J (The Arizona Board of Regents, 2001)
    The Mulifanua ferry berth has the distinction of being the only site in Samoa with dentate-stamped Lapita wares, and is the most easterly Lapita site in the Pacific. Two new radiocarbon determinations of material associated ...
  • Civic Engagement Through Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies. 
    A. Yee, Jennifer (Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education., 2020)
    This autoethnographic case study analyzes how “ASAM 230 – Civic Engagement Through Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies,” an ethnic studies course created at a public, comprehensive university in partnership ...
  • The Brazen Daylight Police Murder of George Floyd and The Racist Origin of American Policing 
    Al-Hashimi, Muhammad (Fourth World Journal, 2021)
    George Floyd, a 42-year-old African American man, and resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was apprehended on 25 May 2020 by four uniformed Minneapolis police for allegedly trying to make a purchase in a local store with a ...
  • Racist and Sexist Termination at a Pacific Northwest University. 
    Free Calvan, Robert (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)
    This case is just one of many across the country that exposes practices that reduce efforts to provide the best care possible for communities. Termination for strong advocacy and dedication is often contrived and buried ...
  • Confronting the lies that protect racist hate speech. 
    Asafo, Dylan (Pacific Basin Law Journal, 2020)
    This Article provides a comparative critique of hate speech jurisprudence in New Zealand and the United States by building on insights from Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholars. My main argument is that neither of these ...
  • The Potential Impact of Trump’s Presidency on Security in the Pacific Islands Region. 
    Ratuva, Steven (Routledge, 2017)
    The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the US has caused much international consternation and anxiety. Reactions have been based on distrust and rejection of Trump’s political ideology, behavioral disposition ...
  • Doctoral women of color coping with racism and sexism in the academy. 
    Ramos, Delma; Yi, Varaxy (International of Doctoral Studies, 2020)
    Aim/Purpose This qualitative study examined the racist and sexist experiences of doctoral women of color in the academy. Background Doctoral women of color (e.g., Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, African Americans, ...
  • Mapping the Pacific. 
    O’Dwyer, Carolyn (Agency Limited, 1995)
    This paper considers the history of the arbitrary colonial division of the Pacific region into the areas of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. While the terms have acquired significance attached to cultural and national ...
  • Economic imperialisms in Early Childhood Education. 
    STUART, MARGARET (Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2016)
    New Zealand has received world-wide accolades for its Early Childhood Education (ECE) curriculum, Te Whariki. This paper explores the tension between economic imperialism, and a curriculum acknowledged as visionary. The ...
  • Engaging the Struggle for Decolonial Approaches to Teaching Community Psychology. 
    Watkins, Mary; Ciofalo, Nuria; James, Susan (Am J Community Psychol, 2018)
    Community psychology’s history has traditionally been described within the context of U.S. history, silencing contributions from people of color from the Americas, Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Africa. In a MA/ PhD ...
  • ‘High Standard of Efficiency and Steadiness’: Papua New Guinea Native Police Guards and Japanese War Criminals, 1945–53 
    BOYD, JAMES; MORRIS, NARRELLE (The Journal of Pacific History, 2015)
    Drawing largely on archival records, this paper examines the Australian use of a detachment from the Native police force to guard the Australian war criminals’ compounds for Japanese war criminals established at Ribault ...
  • Student Teachers’ Resistance to Exploring Racism. 
    AVELING, NADO (Carfax Publishing Company, 2002)
    While teachers have a responsibility to teach in a way that is anti-discriminatory and inclusive of all students irrespective of students’ gender, ‘race’/ethnicity, social class, disability or sexual orientation, in this ...
  • Thinking ‘differently’ about a feminist critical geography of development. 
    Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala (Geographical Research, 2017-08-07)
    This paper makes a case for grounding the global in feminist, anti-racist, and post-colonial scholarship in order to foreground questions of race, colonialism, and history in critical geographies of development. I argue ...
  • Our Extractive Age. 
    Shapiro, Judith; McNeish, John-Andrew (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2021)
    Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of ...
  • Asian Geopolitics and the US-China rivalry. 
    Heiduk, Felix. ed. (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2022)
    This book analyses the ways in which foreign policy actors in Asia have responded to the emerging great power conflict between the US and the People’s Republic of China focusing on medium and small states across the ...
  • Age and Evolution of the Volcanoes of Tutuila, American Samoa 
    McDougall, Ian (University of Hawai'i Press, 1985)
    Tutuila is a basaltic volcanic island within the east southeasterly trending Samoa Island chain in the Pacific Ocean. Potassium-argon ages on 38 whole rock samples of lavas and intrusives demonstrate that the main period ...
  • The Chronology of mountain settlements of Tutuila, American Samoa 
    Pearl, Frederic B (The Univerity of Auckland, 2004-12)
    The mountain ridgetop settlements in Tutuila, American Samoa, attributed by Samoans to a legendary period of warfare with the Tongans that is said to date between the 10th and 13th centuries is investigated. An analysis ...
  • Wandering the Wards. 
    Featherstone, Katie; Northcott, Andy (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2021)
    Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of ...

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