Scott Hamilton Adelaide University scholar Mandy Treagus will be giving a talk called 'Jack London in the Solomon Islands: race, labour, & Melanesianism' on the 15th of October. Anyone can watch the talk via Zoom using the following link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85211517526 Jack London is one of the subjects of Treagus' new book The Pacific Tale: short fiction from 1890-1950, which has been published by Palgrave Macmillan. London helped create some of the enduring stere

Wouter Veenendal, Third World Quarterly, 2021 Discussed by Scott Hamilton According to the precepts of mainstream political science, Vanuatu should be a violent, intolerant place in the 21st century. Instead it is ranked as one of the freest countries in the world by Chatham House. Vanuatu's political system is profoundly paradoxical. The country has fifty-two MPs, yet they belong to over a dozen parties. Parties form and collapse regularly, MPs frequently change their colour