Rakuita, T. (2025, September). From an ideology of place to an ontology of presence: Embedding global development in a new framework for Oceania. Verbal presentation at the Global Development in Flux Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Rakuita, T., & Plange, N. K. (2025). Who is a Vulagi? Unsettling settler imaginaries of ‘place’ and ‘indigeneity’ in Fiji's post-colonial context. Pacific Dynamics, 9(2), 1267-1284. doi: 10.26021/16128
Journal - Research Article
Tuimaleali'ifano, M., Sakai, S., Rakuita, E., & Rakuita, N. T. (2024). Bridging the divides and healing the Vanua: The role of the tukutuku raraba in the history of Fijians and the importance of critical review in modern Fiji. The example from the succession to the Vunivalu title of the yavusa Sovatabua, Natewa. (pp. 1-214). Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific. Retrieved from https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/14686/
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Gibbs, A., Wei, J., Gilmour, F., Dougherty, J., Bond, P., Bohn, S., Silver, E., Biggs, L., & Rakuita, T. (Eds.). (2024). Proceedings of the Te Taura Takata Sociology, Gender Studies & Criminology Postgraduate Symposium VIII. Dunedin, New Zealand: Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology Programme, University of Otago. 42p.
Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings
Vakaoti, P., & Rakuita, T. (2024). A sociology of ‘our sea of islands’. Proceedings of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Conference: The Sociology to Come. Retrieved from https://www.saanz.net/saanz2024/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
2025
Journal - Research Article
Rakuita, T., & Plange, N. K. (2025). Who is a Vulagi? Unsettling settler imaginaries of ‘place’ and ‘indigeneity’ in Fiji's post-colonial context. Pacific Dynamics, 9(2), 1267-1284. doi: 10.26021/16128
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Rakuita, T. (2025, September). From an ideology of place to an ontology of presence: Embedding global development in a new framework for Oceania. Verbal presentation at the Global Development in Flux Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2024
Journal - Research Article
Rakuita, T. (2024). From an ideology of 'place' to an ontology of 'presence': Towards a new constellation in Pacific thought. Pacific Dynamics, 8(1), 551-564. doi: 10.26021/15182
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Vakaoti, P., & Rakuita, T. (2024). A sociology of ‘our sea of islands’. Proceedings of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Conference: The Sociology to Come. Retrieved from https://www.saanz.net/saanz2024/
Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings
Gibbs, A., Wei, J., Gilmour, F., Dougherty, J., Bond, P., Bohn, S., Silver, E., Biggs, L., & Rakuita, T. (Eds.). (2024). Proceedings of the Te Taura Takata Sociology, Gender Studies & Criminology Postgraduate Symposium VIII. Dunedin, New Zealand: Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology Programme, University of Otago. 42p.
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Tuimaleali'ifano, M., Sakai, S., Rakuita, E., & Rakuita, N. T. (2024). Bridging the divides and healing the Vanua: The role of the tukutuku raraba in the history of Fijians and the importance of critical review in modern Fiji. The example from the succession to the Vunivalu title of the yavusa Sovatabua, Natewa. (pp. 1-214). Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific. Retrieved from https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/14686/
2023
Conference Contribution - Edited volume of conference proceedings
Gibbs, A., Wei, J., Gilmour, F., Dougherty, J., Bond, P., Bohn, S., Biggs, L., & Rakuita, T. (Eds.). (2023). Proceedings of the Sociology, Gender Studies & Criminology and Social & Community Work Postgraduate Symposium VII. Dunedin, New Zealand: Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology Programme, University of Otago. 44p.
2021
Journal - Research Article
Kanemasu, Y., Rakuita, N. T., & Kopf, A. (2021). Foregrounding Pacific epistemologies in curriculum review: Exercising educator agency in a process of institutional change. Directions, 35(1), 18-28. Retrieved from http://www.usp.ac.fj/school-of-education/wp-content/uploads/sites/126/2021/08/Directions_2021_Special_Issue_Final.pdf#page=24
2017
Journal - Research Article
Rakuita, T. (2017). The notion of 'constellative thinking' in Pacific thought: Expanding Oceania. Pacific Dynamics, 1(1), 21-32. doi: 10.26021/15182
2014
Awarded Doctoral Degree
Rakuita, R. N. (2014). 'Radicalising' the public sphere: From Habermas to Adorno (PhD). Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. 202p. doi: 10.25911/5d5153380cf4e
2002
Journal - Research Article
Rakuita, T. (2002). Taukei-Vulagi philosophy and the coup of 19 May 2000. Pacific Studies, 25(4), 93-108.
PhD (ANU)