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Teresa Teaiwa has been teaching in the Pacific Studies programme at Victoria University of Wellington since 2000, and prior to this taught in the History/Politics department at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. She has published on a variety of issues confronting the Pacific and Pacific people, in a wide range of academic and literary venues. At the moment she is working on a book manuscript which explores the experiences of Fiji women who have served in the Fiji Military and British Army. She is currently a co-editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.
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Teaiwa, T. Modern Life, Primitive Thoughts. Development 54, 177–179 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.24
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