Editorial

Drawing on recent conversations in the broader field of visual studies, this volume highlights the many ways scholars in New Zealand and the Pacific are rethinking visual cultures through Indigenous epistemologies, critical engagements with settler-colonial legacies and struggles for sovereignty. Building on prior issues of this journal, including a recent Special Issue on photography from the Pacific, the three articles included in this collection advance new directions in Pacific visual and material culture studies and museological practice. Taken together, articles by Fanny Vonu Veys, Maggie Wander and Bernida Webb-Binder underscore the importance of locally grounded yet globally connected scholarship, offering methodological, theoretical and ethical insights into the evolving field of Pacific visual studies. The authors speak to the field’s continued vitality in addressing both historical and contemporary challenges.