Culture-gender-relocation nexus in iTaukei villages, Fiji

This report explains how climate change impacts are resulting in the devastating loss and damage of tangible and intangible cultural assets of our indigenous communities in Fiji and across the Pacific. Communities are forced to move and, in the process, leave behind or lose pieces of their cultural identity.

There are invaluable strengths and lessons to be drawn from the oral history and tradition of the indigenous Fijians. To recognise and relearn these valuable precedents requires the decolonizing of the mind of both implementers of climate relocation and the indigenous iTaukei villages. This approach is not the panacea to the climate relocation conundrum, rather they can begin to provide solutions on what works better for the Indigenous Communities living in Fiji.