Abstract:
Pacific research methodologies foreground Pacific values, knowledge and ethics in an attempt to decolonize Pacific epistemology in Pasifika studies. The ongoing tensions for Pasifika researchers are the dynamics associated in academia that foreground notions of validity and truth when Pacific knowledge has been contested as fixed or static. Operating in a diaspora, Pasifika research with Pacific epistemology require new and emergent ways to re-imagine methodology, methodology that is open to multiplicity and difference. I question how cultural knowledge nomadic and open to relations of change, deterritorialise and reterritorialise in the context of human and material. Furthermore, how becoming posthuman may produce new alternatives in the conceptualising of the human subject within Pasifika research. Keywords: diaspora, multiplicity, nomad, Pacific epistemology, Pasifika research, posthuman.