ABSTRACT

“The Pacific Rim,” “the Asia Pacific,” “the Pacific community”—these and other newly coined signifiers slide about with shifting images as global attention turns at the end of this century to this oceanic space we call the Pacific. Such a turn of interest leads me to a saying that resonates within me: https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781410611390/c53dfb8c-badb-4990-8185-73cf2a8bf458/content/fig00016_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>