PACS 201 - Islands of Globalization: Home

Provides access to streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork.

Films on Demand provides streaming access to a large variety of educational videos in the humanities, social and natural sciences, business and health. Ability to search for individual clips within films. Transcripts available. Pacific films include, Made in Taiwan, Papuans: Between Two Worlds, Māori Land Protests, and others.

With over 30,000 documentaries, classic and indie films, Kanopy provides streaming access to films on a variety of subjects, including social sciences, the arts, business, global studies & languages, etc.

The Micronesian Seminar video studio has produced over 72 videos on healthcare, migration, history, youth, land, education, economics, business, and social issues. Most videos are available for free viewing online.

NZ On Screen is the online showcase of NZ television, film, music video and web series. All content is free to view – around 4,000 titles from the beginning of the screen industry to the present day.

A collection of black and white and hand-colored photographs of scenic sites and identifiable landmarks in Hawaii, programs, tickets, etc.

Eighteen images documenting the process of making siapo (kapa or tapa) in American Samoa.

Between 1938 and 1939, Oliver conducted research on Bougainville, among the Siwai (a.k.a. Siuai) people. The majority of these images derive from that period, and were donated to UHM's Pacific Collection following Dr. Oliver's death in 2009.

"Photographs in Connection with the Investigation of Working Conditions of Filipino Laborers on Hawaiian Sugar Plantations, 1926," by Lt. Colonel Robert A. Duckworth-Ford, Aide-de-Camp to Governor-General of the Philippines Leonard Wood.

Photos from throughout Melanesia, on a variety of subjects, taken between 1955 and 1956.

These 297 images mostly derive from 18th- through early 20th-century published works that are held in UHM's Hawaiian and Pacific Collections rare vault. A wide variety of images documenting early depictions of Hawaiʻi and Pacific culture and society.

A collection of black and white photographs of scenic sites and identifiable landmarks in Hawaiʻi. Images are from a variety of albums and scrapbooks acquired by or donated to the UHM's Hawaiian Collection.

Documents Dr. Tobin's lifetime of working within the Marshall Islands and Micronesia more generally, beginning in the 1950s and ranging through the 1980s. Includes images relating to nuclear testing and dislocation/relocation of Marshall Islanders. Note: This collection is currently under construction, with more photos to be added over time.

Early post-WWII images of Micronesia, as shot by a civilian employee of the Trust Territory. A good companion to the Trust Territory Photo Archives.

Photographs by Dr. Robert Kiste and Dr. Leonard Mason, documenting the lives of Bikini and Enewetak islanders in the wake of U.S. nuclear testing program. Photos range from late 1940s through 1980s.

The 304 images contained in this online collection are digital reproductions of materials in several distinct art and photograph collections, covering a range of geographic regions and time periods. Taken as a whole, these collections document many facets of life in the Pacific during World War II, from the brutal and the tragic to the mundane.

Photographs of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, during the early 1900s. Documenting a variety of places and subjects.

Unpublished material from the SOS organization - an environmental, social, political, and cultural movement that contributed to the contemporary Hawaiian Sovereignty movement.

Documents life on Satawal and surrounding islands/atolls in the early 1980s. Photos are not limited to navigation, and include a great deal of information on day-to-day life.

Documents the entire Trust Territory period in Micronesia, via more than 8,000 photos.

"Explore, discover and view thousands of items held in museums, libraries, galleries, and collections around the world. Celebrate the rich and diverse cultures of the Pacific." Includes images, objects, videos, audio, texts, and maps.

(links from the Pacific Collection at UHM)

Understand how global living conditions and the earth’s environment are changing through research and interactive data visualizations.

"After more than twenty years, the daily Pacific Islands news service [...] will cease. Founded in 1997 [...and] with an [accessible] archive of well over 100,000 articles."

Redesigned and will replace the PRISM website (https://prism.spc.int/), which will soon be taken offline.

An open-access, digital institutional repository for the intellectual works and unique collections of the UH Mānoa academic community. Publications from the Center for Pacific Island Studies are available here.

Drawn primarily from the Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology, this collection of 14,312 digital objects documents the cultures and peoples of the Pacific Islands through 20th-century photographs, dissertations, and films. The majority of photos are from the Solomon Islands, but collection also includes images from throughout the Pacific, including the Cook Islands, Fiji, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu. Photos date from the 1930s through 1990s.

The Forum brings together the collaborative efforts of multi-stakeholder groups, including industry, government, non-profits, social entrepreneurs, young people, artists, musicians, activists, academics, etc. to talk about the biggest issues facing the world.

“WID aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries” (quoted from About Us page).

“Our mission is to advance the science of climate change communication, help leaders communicate more effectively, and increase the public's understanding of climate risks and opportunities. We conduct scientific research on public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior at the global, national, and local scales. We publish our research in public reports, interactive maps, and scientific articles and provide public presentations and private briefings” (quoted from About the Program page).

"ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies – ICTs."