Topics in the Contemporary Pacific – serie
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Greed and Grievance
Ex-Militants' Perspectives on the Conflict in Solomon Islands, 1998-2003
Inbunden, 2013
624 kr
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This work offers important new perspectives on the violence and unrest that gripped Solomon Islands between late 1998 and mid-2003, a period known as the Ethnic Tension. Based on in-depth interviews and documents associated with the “Tension Trials”, it is the first detailed account of the conflict …
Pacific Women in Politics
Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands
Av Kerryn Baker, Brij V. Lal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
940 kr
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Women are significantly underrepresented in politics in the Pacific Islands, given that only one in twenty Pacific parliamentarians are female, compared to one in five globally. A common, but controversial, method of increasing the number of women in politics is the use of gender quotas, or …
New Port Moresby
Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea
Av Ceridwen Spark, Brij V. Lal
Inbunden, 2020
940 kr
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The New Port Moresby: Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship, the book adds to an emerging …
Becoming Landowners
Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste
Av Victoria C. Stead, Brij V. Lal
Häftad, 2022
310 kr
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Across Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by processes of modernization—globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian …
Interpreting Corruption
Culture and Politics in the Pacific Islands
Inbunden, 2012
568 kr
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Being Political
Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands
Av Jack Corbett, Brij V. Lal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
624 kr
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Politicians everywhere tend to attract cynicism and inspire disillusionment. They are supposed to epitomize the promise of democratic government and yet invariably find themselves cast as the enemy of every virtue that system seeks to uphold. In the Pacific, “politician” has become a byword for …
Becoming Landowners
Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste
Av Victoria C. Stead, Brij V. Lal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
801 kr
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Across Melanesia, as across much of the world, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by modernizing processes of change—globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of …
New Port Moresby
Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea
Av Ceridwen Spark, Brij V. Lal m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
339 kr
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The New Port Moresby: Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship, the book adds to an emerging …
Pacific Women in Politics
Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands
Av Kerryn Baker, Brij V. Lal m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
339 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Women are significantly underrepresented in politics in the Pacific Islands, given that only one in twenty Pacific parliamentarians are female, compared to one in five globally. A common, but controversial, method of increasing the number of women in politics is the use of gender quotas, or …
