RETHINKING RESISTANCE - DIALOGICS OF DISAFFECTION IN COLONIAL FIJI

In a colonial society of indigenous Fijian Pacific islanders, colonizi ng British, and indentured south Asian ''coolies,'' the terms ''loyalt y'' and ''disaffection'' were a crucial locus of debate. This article examines important moments of dialogue in Fiji's colonial history, not to reveal the unified logic of an enduring British hegemony, nor to f ind the agency of the colonized in ''resistance,'' but to discover the relations of domination actually made and contested. Contests for pow er in postcolonial Fiji continue a dialogue about chiefship and custom , labor and profit, citizenship, and, above all, loyalty and disaffect ion.