Selected Publications and Presentations

Books 

Gounder, F., Shameem, N., & Khan-Janif, J. (Eds). (2023). Khatta Mittha Bàt. The University of Fiji Press.

Gounder, F., Brereton, B., Egger, J., & Neus, H. (Eds.).  (2021).  Collective Memory, Identity, and the Legacies of Slavery and Indentured LabourManohar; Routledge Press.    

Gounder, F., HiralalK., Pande, A., & Hassankhan, M. (Eds.).  (2020). Women, Gender, and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture. Manohar; Routledge Press.   

Menke, H., Buckingham, J., Gounder, F., Kumar, A., Hassankhan, M. (Eds.).  (2020).  Social Aspects of Health, Medicine, and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial EraManohar; Routledge Press. 

Gounder, F. (Ed.).  (2015).  Narrative practice and identity construction in the Pacific Islands.  The Netherlands: John Benjamins.  https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/sin.21/main

Gounder, F.  (2011).  Indentured identities: Resistance and accommodation in plantation-era Fiji.  The Netherlands: John Benjamins.  http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/sin.15/main

Book chapters

Gounder, F.  (2020).  Gender and resistance in Indian indenture life stories: Oral history and the national stage of memorialization.  In F. Gounder.K. Hiralal., A. Pande., & M. Hassankhan (Eds.).   Women, Gender, and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture.  Manohar; Routledge Press.    

Gounder, F.  (2020).  Motherhood performativity in sub-altern life stories.  In A. Pande (Ed.).  Women in the Indian diaspora: Indentured and Post-indentured Experiences.  Springer. 

Gounder, F. (2015). Introduction. In F. Gounder (Ed.), Narrative practice and identity construction in the Pacific Islands (pp. 1-11).  The Netherlands: John Benjamins.

Gounder, F.  (2014).  Who is ‘we’? Anniversary narrative as collective memory. In E. Stracke (Ed.), Intersections: Applied Linguistics as a Meeting Place (pp. 87-109). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Journal Editor  

Editor-in-Chief (2022).  Indenture Papers: Studies on Girmityas.

Gounder, F. (Ed.).  (2014).  Narrative: State of the art in Aotearoa.  Special Edition of Te Reo: Official Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, volume 57.

Journal articles

Gounder, F. (Forthcoming). Indian Indenture Studies: Understanding the Relevance in Contemporary Societies. UNESCO’s Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund Magazine.

Shameem, N., Gounder, F., & Janif, J. (2023) Developing an orthography for Girmit Hindustani. The case of Fiji Hindi. In Journal of Educational Studies, June 2022. Suva: University of the South Pacific.

Gounder F.  (2022).  Interview in UNESCO’s Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund Magazine, 6, 33.

Gounder F.  (2021).  Power, Position, and Health Outcomes within the Girmit EnvironmentUNESCO’s Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund Magazine, 6, 32-34.

Gounder, F.  (2021).  Cause and Response to Inequalities in the Indentured Labour Diaspora.  A framework for analysis.  Indenture Papers, 1, 149.

Gounder, F.  (2020).  Cause and Response to Inequalities in the Indentured Labour Diaspora. UNESCO’s Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund Magazine, 5, 43-45.

Gounder, F., & Hassankhan, M. S. Cause and Response to Inequities on indenture plantations A framework for analysis. Working Paper.

Gounder, F.  (2020).  Suva residents’ views on Cancer, Diabetes, and HIV in The Fiji Times. Journal of Pacific Studies, 40(1), 81-101.  DOI: 10.33318/jpacs.2020.40(1)-4

Cullum, S., Simpson, R., & Gounder, F. (2020). How is dementia portrayed in New Zealand newsprint media? Causes, effects and moral evaluation. The New Zealand Medical Journal133(1522), 18-29.

Gounder, F., & Ameer, R.  (2018).  Defining diabetes and assigning responsibility: How print media frame diabetes in New ZealandJournal of Applied Communication Research, 46(1), 93-112.  DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2017.1409907

Gounder, F.  (2017).  [Book review].  Chaim Noy. (2015). Thank you for dying for our country: Commemorative texts and performances in Jerusalem. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  Language in Society, 46(4), 602-603.

Gounder, F.  (2017). Restorying Girmit: Commemorative journalism, collective consciousness and the imagined community.  Fijian Studies: A Journal of Contemporary Fiji, 15(1), 47-62.

Gounder, F., Gounder, R., Cornelius, M.  (2016). “Sex like sweet potatoes”: Framing HIV in the South Pacific media.  Journal of Public Health in Developing Countries, 2(1), 109-120.

Gounder, F.  (2014). Narrative perspectives and perspectives on narrative. Te Reo: Official Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, 57, 93-108.

Dean, F. (2000). Precourse needs analysis for a female Rotuman learning a domestic register of Fiji Hindi.  Directions: Journal of Educational Studies, 22 (2), 35-55. [Published under maiden name]

Theses

Gounder, F. (2011). Restorying indenture the first Fiji Hindi speakers narrate Girmit: a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (Doctoral dissertation, Massey University).

2003   Dean, F. (2003). Pan-ethnicity in New Zealand: An investigation into the use of ethnic linguistic markers in resisting Pan-Indian categorization by Indo-Fijian and South Asian tertiary students in Auckland (Masters dissertation, University of Auckland).

Conference presentations

2023. “From Indenture to Empowerment: Tracing the Influence of Fiji’s Indentured Women’s Journey on Contemporary Society.” Global Conference on Slavery, Indentured Labour, Migration, and Their impact on present societies June 6th – 10th. Anton de Kom University of Suriname. Paramaribo, Suriname.

2023. “From Indentured Labour to Inclusive Nationhood: Ensuring Diversity and Equality for the Descendants of Indian Indentured Labourers.” Celebrating Girmitya Lives: Documenting, Researching, Writing, and Communicating Histories & Lives. International Conference 12-13 May. The University of the South Pacific. Suva, Fiji.

2023. Gounder, F.  Opening ceremony of Celebrating Girmitya Lives: Documenting, Researching, Writing, and Communicating Histories & Lives. International Conference 12-13 May. The University of the South Pacific. Suva, Fiji.

2022 Gounder, F. “The future of History”. 2nd ILRP Indian Ocean Committee Webinar. Broadening Horizons: Empowering Young Scholars and Academics, and New Directions of Research on Indentured Labourers. 9th and 10th August 2022. Mauritius. 

2021 Gounder, F.  “Developing strategic pathways to ensure resilience in the post-covid education sector: Challenges and opportunities”.  In the eye of the clouds: Discharging academic responsibilities under COVID-19.  November 25.  Fiji National University.

2021 Gounder, F.  Opening ceremony of the International Conference on Old and New Indenture: Labour Practice and Human RightsOctober 9-11Fiji.  

2021 Gounder, F. and M. Hassankhan.  “Cause and response to inequity in the indentured labour diaspora: A proposed framework for analysis”.  Old and New Indenture: International Conference on Labour and Human Rights.  October 9-11Fiji.  

2021 Gounder, F.  “The CARE framework: Introducing a new framework for indenture studies”.  Aotearoa Fiji Research Collective Symposium.  October 7-8New Zealand.  

2021 Gounder, F. “A profile of indentured labour in the Pacific world”.  “Exploring the Contours of Indentured / Contract Labour Systems & Unfree Labour in
the Greater Indian Ocean World & Beyond: Shared History, Shared Heritage, & New Perspectives” Indian Ocean Committee of the Indentured Labour Route Project.  August 9-11.  Mauritius Film Development Corporation (MFDC), Floréal, Republic of Mauritius: Mauritius.

2020 Gounder, F. and M. Hassankhan.  “Cause and response to inequity in the indentured labour diaspora: A proposed framework for analysis”.  World Indian Diaspora Conference.  August 22-23.  University of the West Indies: Trinidad.

2019 Gounder, F. and M. Hassankhan.  “Cause and response to inequity in the indentured labour diaspora: A proposed framework for analysis”.  International Conference on Forced Labour and Migration.  July 15th-17th.  University of Fiji: Lautoka, Fiji.  

2019 Gounder, F.  “Mothers-before-labourers: Resistance strategies on indentured plantations”.  International Conference on Forced Labour and Migration.  July 15th-17th.  University of Fiji: Lautoka, Fiji. 

2019 Hassankhan, M. and F. Gounder.  “Indentured Labour Route Project: Strategic Plan for Fiji”.  International Conference on Forced Labour and Migration.  July 15th-17th.  University of Fiji: Lautoka, Fiji.  

2018  Gounder, F.  “Gender performativity in Girmit life narratives”.  Conference on Slavery, Indentured Labour, Migration, Diaspora and Identity Formation.  June 19th– 23th, Paramaribo, Suriname.

2017  Gounder, F.  “‘Oh, sugar’: Media framing of diabetes”6th Discourse and Society Conference, 6-9 December.  Auckland University of Technology, Auckland.

2015 Gounder, F.  “Implications of health media framing in the South Pacific“, 8th Pasifika Massey Conference, 24-25 Nov.  Massey University, Palmerston North.

2014  Gounder, F.  “Framing health news stories in the South Pacific”, Linguistic Society of New Zealand Language and Society Conference, 23-25 Nov. University of Waikato, Hamilton.

2011  Gounder, F. “I was slapped but never beaten: A Fiji Indian mother’s construction of agency through her life narrative”, Linguistics Society of New Zealand 19th Biennial Conference, 17-18 Nov. Victoria University, Wellington.

2009  Gounder, F.  “Performing gender: Putting women back into Indian indenture”, Linguistics Society of New Zealand 18th Biennial Conference, 30 Nov-1 Dec.  Massey University, Palmerston North.

2008  Gounder, F. “Kissing cousins: The habitual narrative & the narrative-proper”, Linguistic Society of New Zealand Language and Society Conference, 17-18 Nov.  Otago University, Dunedin.

2008  Gounder, F. The silenced interviewer in the representation of identities”, CLESOL, 2-5 Oct.  King’s College, Auckland.

2007  Gounder, F. Narratives of Indian indenture”, ALANZ, 3rd Nov.  International Pacific College, Palmerston North.

Seminar presentations

2019.  Gounder, F.  “Social determinants of health and inequality during indenture”, Spring Symposium, 28th September.  IPU New Zealand Tertiary Institute, Palmerston North. 

2018.  Gounder, F. “Gender performativity in subaltern life stories”, IPU NZ Tertiary Institute Research Day, August.  IPU New Zealand Tertiary Institute, Palmerston North.

2015  Gounder, F. “HIV in the South Pacific Media”, International Pacific College Research Day, 29 July.  International Pacific College, Palmerston North.

2015  Gounder, F. “‘Sex like sweet potatoes’: HIV in Fiji English media“, Massey University School of Communication Seminar Series, 27 May.  Massey University, Palmerston North.  Invited presentation.

2014  Gounder, F. “Talanoa: The need for culture-specific methodologies“, University of Waikato Narrative Symposium, 17 April.  University of Waikato, Hamilton.

2013  Gounder, F. “The Bad Mothers of Indian indenture: Countering stigma in collective memory”, Waikato Linguistics in Action, 14 Nov.  University of Waikato, Hamilton.

2011  Gounder, F. “Life narratives in Fiji Hindi”, International Pacific College Research Day, 26 July.  International Pacific College, Palmerston North.

Invited presentations

2021.  Gounder, F.  Presenter for joint ICC (Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre) & AGI (Ameena Gafoor Institute) & GGI (Global Girmit Institute).  11th October. 

2021.  Gounder, F.  Keynote Address for Victoria University’s Fijian Language Week. Noqu Vosa, Ai Vakadei ni Noqu Tiko Vinaka: My language, my stability, my wellbeing.  4th October.

2021.  Gounder, F.  Fiji’s History of Indentureship.  Presenter for joint ICC (Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre) & AGI (Ameena Gafoor Institute).  19th September.  

2021.  Gounder, F.  Keynote Address.  Fiji Girmit Foundation New Zealand 142nd Girmit Anniversary. 7th May.  Auckland.

2021.  Gounder, F.  The women in the indentured abolition discourse of C. F. Andrews​​.  Presentation for International web-seminar on International Women’s Day.  8-9 March 2021. Deccan Archaeological and Culture Research Institute, Hyderabad and Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Niyas, Meerut. (Video link: The women in the indentured abolition discourse of CF Andrews )

2021.  Gounder, F. Indian women as cultural gatekeepers in the diaspora.  ARSP International Webinar on Women’s Day, 8th March.  (Video link: Farzana Gounder_ Indian women as cultural gatekeepers in the diaspora)

2021.  Gounder, F.  Research projects on indenture from the South PacificScientific Committee for the Indentured Labour Route Project.  Online meeting held at the University of Mauritius, Le Réduit.  26 January.  Mauritius.

2019.  Gounder, F.  “Cause and response to inequity in the indentured labour diaspora: A proposed framework for analysis”.  Law School Seminar Series.  26th July.  Law School, University of Fiji: Suva, Fiji.  

2016. Gounder, F.  “Media framing of complementary and alternative medicine access in the South Pacific”.  Avondale College of Higher Education: Centre for Advancement of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 6th October.  Avondale College of Higher Education, Sydney, Australia.

2016.  Gounder, F.  “(W)rite of healing: Social determinants of complementary and alternative medicine access in developing & developed worlds“, Massey University School of Development Studies, 27 April.  Massey University, Palmerston North.  Invited presentation.

2015.  Gounder, F.  “‘Sex like sweet potatoes’: HIV in Fiji English media”, Massey University School of Communication Seminar Series, 27th May.  Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.   

2013.  Gounder, F.  Waikato University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Workshop.  University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand 

Conference participation

2019 The UCLA Center for Middle East Development in Cooperation with The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar 14th Annual Conference Enriching the Middle East’s Economic Future.  November 13-14.  Doha, Qatar.  

2019 NZIIA National Conference: Pacific Futures: Connections, Identity and Security.  18 October.  Auckland, New Zealand.  

2018 UNESCO Roundtable Discussions.  Memory of the world: Indenture Labour Routes.  Archives and the legacy of slavery and indentured labour. Their contribution to the indentured labour route project, with special reference to the international indentured labour migration database.  June 24th, Paramaribo, Suriname.  

2022 IPANZ 2022 Public Sector Conference.  Burning issues for the future public sector.  February 22, Wellington, New Zealand.     

Facilitated workshops and roundtables

2021 Gounder, F.  (Chair).  Roundtable on Indian Diaspora.  National Council of Indian Culture Heritage Center.  First International Phagwa Conference 2021.  Phagwa in the Global Village: Traditions, Innovations and Future Developments.  March 13-14.  Trinidad and Tobago.

2020 Gounder, F. (Chair).  Roundtable on Cause and response to inequity in the indentured labour diaspora.  August 23.  World Indian Diaspora Conference, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.  

2020 Gounder, F. (Chair).  Roundtable on the development of a universal orthography for Girmit Hindustani varieties.  August 23.  World Indian Diaspora Conference, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.

2019 Gounder, F. (Chair).  Roundtable on the development of a universal orthography for Girmit Hindustani varieties.  International Conference on Forced Labour and Migration.  July 15th-17th.  University of Fiji: Lautoka, Fiji. 

2018 Gounder, F.  How to get published.  Professional Development Workshop.  7th October.  IPU New Zealand, Palmerston North.

2017 Gounder, F. & Ameer, R. Mixed methods software workshop.  IPU New Zealand Research Half Day, 9th August.  IPU New Zealand, Palmerston North.

2016 Gounder, F. & Ameer, R. Mixed methods software workshop. 1st December.  IPU New Zealand, Palmerston North.

2016 Gounder, F. & Ameer, R. Mixed methods software workshop for International Pacific University of Japan. 8th December. IPU New Zealand, Palmerston North.

2016 Gounder, F. & Ameer, R. MAXQDA proposal and demonstration for IPU Board. 24th September, IPU New Zealand, Palmerston North.

Participated workshops 

2020 AQA’s Academic Integrity Workshop, 4th February.  Auckland University, Auckland.

2018 Workshop on Treaty of Waitangi, 9th August.  IPU New Zealand, Palmerston North.

2018 Workshop on culturally responsive teaching practices for Maori students, 18th    October. IPU New Zealand, Palmerston North.