{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f911a45e769b8178360b4f0/62d0b44d1a035700132862a4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"S2E17: Companionable Silences with Wanda Ieremia-Allan","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5f911a45e769b8178360b4f0/1658854749484-b986fa2bef146673309ae6097bb2af78.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Moana and Oceania greetings to one and all</p><p><br></p><p><strong>DISCLAIMER: </strong>This episode was recorded in December 2021 and we want to be explicit that some views may have evolved since. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we share space with a mother, sister, cousin, granddaughter, Wanda Ieremia-Allan from Sapapali’I, Safotulafai, Saōluafata, Lalomanu,  Samoa. Wanda is a PhD candidate in the Pacific and Indigenous Studies programme at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. </p><p><br></p><p>Wanda’s archival research traces the intergenerational intellectual gafa / lineage of Indigenous Samoan writing of the early twentieth century in the former London Missionary Society newspaper O le Sulu Samoa. A key strand of her work investigates the ideological, cultural and gendered tensions inherent in the writing and employs Samoan epistemological paradigms to the reading of colonial texts. </p><p><br></p><p>We navigate through talanoa topics such as:</p><ul><li>Sacred relational space/s </li><li>Embodying your ancestry</li><li>Feeling of belonging </li><li>Women in literature </li><li>Everyone has power</li><li>Owning your vulnerability  </li></ul><p><br></p><p>Talanoa mai, Kōrero mai</p><p><br></p><p>Reflexive prompts:</p><ul><li>How do you honour the thought that \"being you is enough\"? </li></ul>","author_name":"Kelsy & Maluseu"}