Trevor Durbin

I am in the early stages of fieldwork that seeks to explore the relationships between various Pacific regional imaginaries and the possibilities for, and plausibilities of, proposed environmental and sustainable development interventions.  As such, my work tends to focus on the grammatical and rhetorical features of the regional environment and its futures.  A key interest is in the duel physical and metaphorical nature of the ocean as a connective and divisive substance. 

A portion of my research is in the form of an internship at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) in Apia, Samoa.