Dr. Claire Slatter

Senior Lecturer

Governance Program
School of Government, Development and International Affairs
University of the South Pacific
Laucala Bay Campus
Suva
Fiji Islands

Tel (679) 323 2533
Fax (679) 323 1524
Email: slatter_c@usp.ac.fj

Academic Qualifications

• BA in History and Politics - University of the South Pacific
• MA in Political Science - Australian National University
• PhD in Public Policy - Massey University (New Zealand)

Teaching Responsibilities

• DG407 Institutional Design, Conflict Management and Governance in the Pacific
• DG413 Special Topics in Development Studies - Key Issues in Gender and Development
• PL101 Politics of Development (starting Term 2, 2013)
• PL350 Politics of Human Rights

Research Interests

• The politics of reform in Pacific island countries
• The global influence of neoliberal ideas and impacts of neoliberal economic reforms in PICs
• Constitutional, political and electoral reforms in Fiji and other PICs
• The empowerment/disempowerment of activist NGOs in PICs
• Gender issues in public policy

Recent Publications (including e-books and papers)

Book Chapters:

2011 - ‘Gender and Custom in the South Pacific’, Chapter 8, Yearbook of NZ Jurisprudence, Vol 13, available at:
http://www.waikato.ac.nz/law/research/centre_for_nz_jurisprudence/volume-13,-2010

2009 - (Jointly authored with Yvonne Underhill-Sem) ‘Re-claiming Pacific Island Regionalism: Does Neo-Liberalism Have to Reign?’ in Katrina Lee Koo and Bina D'Costa (eds.), Gender & Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.195-210.

2006 - `Treading Water in Rapids? Non-Governmental Organisations and Resistance to Neoliberalism in Pacific Island States', in Stewart Firth (ed.), Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands, Canberra: Australian National University EPress (December), available at: http://epress.anu.edu.au/ssgm/global_gov/mobile_devices/ch02.html

2006 - `Neoliberalism and the disciplining of Pacific Island States - the dual challenges of a global economic creed and a changed geo-political order', in Michael Powles (ed.), Pacific Futures, Canberra: Pandanus Press (Australia National University), pp. 91-110.

2006 - The Con/Dominion of Vanuatu? Paying the Price of Investment and Land Liberalisation - a case study of Vanuatu's Tourism Industry, Oxfam New Zealand, (August), 24 pp., available at: www.oxfam.org.nz/imgs/whatwedo/mtf/onz_vantourism_final.pdf