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Assistant Professor
Jess Marinaccio received her doctorate in Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 2019 and was most recently employed in Tuvalu’s Department of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Marinaccio also holds a Master’s in Chinese literature from National Taiwan University and has worked as a Mandarin–English interpreter for the Tuvalu Embassy in Taiwan. Dr. Marinaccio’s research focuses on Tuvalu–Taiwan cultural diplomacy as well as understandings of diplomacy and indigeneity in Taiwan and its Pacific allies.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Disputes at Port, Disputes at Sea: How Fishing Rights and Practices Shaped Taiwan-Pacific Relations from the 1950s to the 1980s,” Journal of Global History, in press (in English).
“The Cultural, Social and Political Contexts of Diplomacy: Taiwan and Its Pacific Island Allies,” Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12433 (in English).
“ ‘Pity the Fishing People’: Taiwan’s Legal and Illegal Fishing in the 20th-century Pacific,” The Journal of Pacific History, 2024, pp. 1-23 (in English).
“Oceanic diplomacy and foreign-policy making in Tuvalu: a values-based approach,” Third World Quarterly, 45(3), 2023, pp. 548-566, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2275675 (in English).
“ ‘Taiwan’s ally Tuvalu to soon become a water world’: Language, Place, and Taiwan’s Popular Discourse on Tuvalu,” Pacific Studies, 43(2), 2020, pp. 162-183 (in English).
“Domestic and Bilateral Challenges to Building Relationality in Cultural Diplomacy: Tuvalu’s Performative Cultural Diplomacy in Taiwan,” International Journal of Cultural Policy, 26(7), 2020, pp. 913-928 (in English).
“Rearticulating Diplomatic Relationships: Contextualizing Tuvalu-Taiwan Relations,” The Contemporary Pacific, 31(2), 2019, pp. 448-475 (in English).
Second author with D. Zhang (First Author). “Chinese and Taiwanese Scholarships for Pacific Island Countries,” ANU In Brief 2019/10 (in English).
“James Clifford’s ‘Indigenous Articulations’ as Traveling Theory?: The Search for Sustainability in Theorizing Taiwan’s Indigenous and Han Populations,” The International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 2(1), January 2019, pp. 32-56 (in English).
“Soft Power in a Hard Shell: The Fleet of Friendship of the ROC Navy and Taiwan’s Performative Cultural Diplomacy in the Pacific,” Issues & Studies: A Social Science Quarterly on China, Taiwan, and East Asian Affairs, 53(2), June 2017, pp. 1-23 (in English).
Book Chapters
“‘We’re not indigenous. We’re just, we’re us’: Pacific Perspectives on Taiwan’s Austronesian Diplomacy.” In G. Smith & T. Wesley-Smith (Eds.), The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands. Acton: ANU Press, 2021, pp. 349-374 (in English).
Other Publications
“The risks of Taiwan’s ‘Austronesian’ diplomacy,” DevPolicy Blog, 17th December 2024 (in English).
“The promise of a return to Taiwan in recent election campaigns: Federated States of Micronesia, Solomon Islands, and Honduras,” Taiwan Insight, 15th November 2024 (in English).
“Is it the end for Taiwan and Pacific regionalism? Controversy at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting in Tonga,” Taiwan Insight, 13th September 2024 (in English).
“Tuvalu’s 2024 general election: a new political landscape,” DevPolicy Blog, 30th January 2024 (in English).
First author with G. Smith (Second Author). “Tuvalu’s Taiwan question,” Inside Story, 26th January 2024 (in English).
“Tuvalu’s parliament debates the Falepili Union,” DevPolicy Blog, 29th November 2023 (in English).
“The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union: Tuvaluan values or Australian interests?,” DevPolicy Blog, 15th November 2023 (in English).
Second author with S. Kofe (First Author). “Tuvalu Constitution updated: culture, climate change and decolonisation,” DevPolicy Blog, 21st September 2023 (in English).
“How Pacific climate diplomacy is changing: Negotiating from a position of strength,” Asia & The Pacific Policy Society: Policy Forum, 27th January 2022 (in English).
Second author with T. Simeti (First Author). “ ‘How is Tuvalu securing against COVID-19?’: a response from Funafuti,” DevPolicy Blog, 22nd April 2020 (in English).