At the Edges of Islands.

Teresia Teaiwa died in March 2017, at the age of 48. Born in Honolulu, Hawai'i, and raised in Suva, Fiji, Teaiwa was of I-Kiribati and African American heritage. She was a hugely influential scholar, teacher, poet, and activist, pioneering the Pacific Studies degrees and programme at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington, and developing a global reputation as a theorist of the Pacific. In this conversational piece, two of Teaiwa's former students and colleagues reflect not only on the impact of Teresia's teaching and ideas on their own scholarly and pedagogical practice, but also how her work might help us think more effectively about Aotearoa New Zealand's position within the Pacific today. To do so, the authors focus on Teaiwa's use of the 'edge' as a conceptual device, her insistence on reflective and reflexive thinking, and her employment of the island as a verb. This piece illustrates the enduring legacy of Teaiwa's ideas and how her work continues to speak to the shifting times we live in today and to the future that is yet to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]