Lea Lani Kinikini Kauvaka
Title
Lea Lani Kinikini Kauvaka
Rights
Permission to upload photo by the author. Photo attribution: Caines Jannif Photography Studio, Suva, Fiji
Birthplace
Tonga
Primary Sources
Maumau, K., ‘Ulu‘ave-Hafoka, M., & Kinikini, L. L. (2021). 2. “Raise Your Pen”: A Critical Race Essay on Truth and Justice. In K. Camacho (Ed.), Reppin': Pacific Islander Youth and Native Justice (pp. 55-83). University of Washington Press.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780295748597-004
Kauvaka, L.L.K. (2018). Oceanian pain in the nuclear epoch, or: How I learned to love Epeli Hau’ofa’s Kisses in the Nederends. Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship, 26(1–2), 125–136.
https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.26.1-2.0125
Kauvaka, L.L.K. (2016). Berths and anchorages: Pacific cultural studies from Oceania. The Contemporary Pacific, 28(1), 130–151. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/43715
Kauvaka, L. L. (2016). Book review: Dying from improvement: Inquests and inquiries into Indigenous deaths in custody. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 12(1), 105–106.
https://doi.org/10.20507/AlterNative.2016.12.1.10
Kauvaka, L. L. (2013). Book Review: A chosen people, a promised land: Mormonism and race in Hawai’i. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 9(3), 267–269.
https://doi.org/10.1177/117718011300900307
Kauvaka, L.L.K. (2009). Maui's sons: A genealogy of return [Unpublished PhD Thesis, The University of Auckland]. Accessed Dec 6, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/5783
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780295748597-004
Kauvaka, L.L.K. (2018). Oceanian pain in the nuclear epoch, or: How I learned to love Epeli Hau’ofa’s Kisses in the Nederends. Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship, 26(1–2), 125–136.
https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.26.1-2.0125
Kauvaka, L.L.K. (2016). Berths and anchorages: Pacific cultural studies from Oceania. The Contemporary Pacific, 28(1), 130–151. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/43715
Kauvaka, L. L. (2016). Book review: Dying from improvement: Inquests and inquiries into Indigenous deaths in custody. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 12(1), 105–106.
https://doi.org/10.20507/AlterNative.2016.12.1.10
Lee, S., Nabobo-Baba, U., Kinikini-Kauvaka, L. L., & Rehuher-Marugg, F. K. (2014). Traditional Knowledge and Wisdom: Themes from the Pacific Islands. International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Kauvaka, L. L. (2013). Book Review: A chosen people, a promised land: Mormonism and race in Hawai’i. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 9(3), 267–269.
https://doi.org/10.1177/117718011300900307
Kauvaka, L.L.K. (2009). Maui's sons: A genealogy of return [Unpublished PhD Thesis, The University of Auckland]. Accessed Dec 6, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/5783
Secondary Sources
ho‘omanawanui, k., Warren, J., & Bacchilega, C. (2024). An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific. University of Hawaii Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824897291
Anesi, J., Flores, A. P., Reilly, B. J., Sasaki, C. T., Vaughn, K., & Warren, J. P. (2021). (Re)centering Pacific Islanders in Trans-Pacific Studies: Transdisciplinary Dialogue, Critique, and Reflections from the Diaspora. Journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, 121, 1. https://manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0702-12/section/85160da6-fa3d-4025-b43f-edf8244d4c3c
McNaughton, H., & Newton, J. (2005). Figuring the Pacific : Aotearoa & Pacific cultural studies. University of Canterbury Press.
Anesi, J., Flores, A. P., Reilly, B. J., Sasaki, C. T., Vaughn, K., & Warren, J. P. (2021). (Re)centering Pacific Islanders in Trans-Pacific Studies: Transdisciplinary Dialogue, Critique, and Reflections from the Diaspora. Journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, 121, 1. https://manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0702-12/section/85160da6-fa3d-4025-b43f-edf8244d4c3c
McNaughton, H., & Newton, J. (2005). Figuring the Pacific : Aotearoa & Pacific cultural studies. University of Canterbury Press.
Extra Resources
University of Hawaiʻi. (n.d.). Lea Kinikini. Accessed October 16, 2025. https://westoahu.hawaii.edu/facultyprofiles/user/kinikini/
Collection
Citation
“Lea Lani Kinikini Kauvaka,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/376.