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    Pitcairn Island: " Where are we going, Fletcher?"
    Barden, Peter Anthony ( 2011)
    From the Southern Pacific power struggle on the Bounty that produced one of the most famous of all mutinies, to the return of the primal Hobbesian ‘war-of-all-against-all’ that founded the state of Pitcairn Island; and from the paternalism of John Adams and his bible as a puritanical mode of governance as a means of a return to Eden, to the trial of the Pitcairn men and the subsequent appeal for sovereignty, it seems that no generation since the HMAV Bounty mutiny has not been fascinated with the politics of this tiny microstate. This thesis will investigate the dual function of Pitcairn as a functional microstate and as a fantasy space for the Western imagination and seek to determine what this subaltern island and the recent enforced import of Western governmentality reflects back upon the global politics of the past decade. As a supplement to the thesis, a creative work based on the trial in the form of a learning play is a fictional re-telling of the events of the trial.