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Format: 416 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.

ISBN: 0824831462 , 9780824831462

Note: Literaturverz. S. 402 - 409 , The context. The Indian context -- The age of merchants -- The age of colonial capital -- The age of globalisation -- India leadership and the diaspora -- Life in the diaspora -- Voices from the diaspora-- The communities. Regions and communities

Language: English

Subjects: History , Sociology

Keywords: Inder ; Diaspora ; Auswanderung ; Enzyklopädie

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Format: 407 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 1-74076-117-0

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Inder ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 1 online resource (200 p.) : , 8 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780824882792

Series Statement: Topics in the Contemporary Pacific

Content: 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 literature on cities in the “Global South” as sites of oppression, but also resistance, aspiration, and activism. Taking an intersectional feminist approach, the book draws on a decade of research conducted among the educated professional women of Port Moresby, offering unique insight into class transitions and the perspectives of this small but significant cohort. The New Port Moresby expands the scope of research and writing about gendered experiences in Port Moresby, moving beyond the idea that the city is an exclusively hostile place for women. Without discounting the problems of uneven development, the author argues that the city’s new places offer women a degree of freedom and autonomy in a city predominantly characterized by fear and restriction. In doing so, it offers an ethnographically rich perspective on the interaction between the “global” and the “local” and what this might mean for feminism and the advancement of equity in the Pacific and beyond. The New Port Moresby will find an audience among anthropologists, particularly those interested in the urban Pacific, feminist geographers committed to expanding research to include cities in the Global South and development theorists interested in understanding the roles played by educated elites in less economically developed contexts. There have been few ethnographic monographs about Port Moresby and those that do exist have tended to marginalize or ignore gender. Yet as feminist geographers make clear, women and men are positioned differently in the world and their relationship to the places in which they live is also different. The book has no predecessors and stands alone in the Pacific as an account of this kind. As such, The New Port Moresby should be read by scholars and students of diverse disciplines interested in urbanization, gender, and the Pacific.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , From the General Editors -- , Acknowledgments -- , Prologue -- , Introduction: Women in the City -- , 1. Representations of Port Moresby: Gender, Class, and Culture in Films about the City -- , 2. At Home in the City: Educated Women, Housing, and Belonging in Port Moresby -- , 3. Getting Comfortable in the “New” Port Moresby -- , 4. From Mosbi to “POM City”: Gender, Transnationalism, and Development in Port Moresby -- , 5. “The Heat of the PNG Sun”: Women in Development -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824882792

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Format: 1 online resource (332 p.)

ISBN: 9780824897161

Content: The second generation of Pacific historians, who began their careers in the 1970s and 1980s, is gradually fading from the academic scene. They have made fundamental contributions to the field of Pacific history, enduring in their impact, and the identity of the discipline is now firmly established. This volume is not so much about their individual research but, rather, their improbable journeys into Pacific history—why and how they came to it in the first place. Almost without exception, they did not choose Pacific history but rather stumbled into the field through serendipity. They came from forays into African, Indian, East Asian, French, British imperial, and other fields, and were enticed into Pacific history through chance or the efforts of kindly mentors. All this is evident in the values and understandings they bring to the subject. The one commonality that binds them is a love of the islands that have been the center of their lifetime work. Many distinguished Pacific historians of the last four to five decades are represented in this collection. Serendipity presents fourteen autobiographical chapters in which the contributors trace their paths as Pacific historians. They offer their sources of inspiration, supporters, and publications that shaped them as historians. With a significant focus on the importance of teaching and mentoring that they both received and provided, their writing not only illuminates their lives, but the state of Pacific history as an academic field. The experiences of the contributors are moving, replete with sorrows and regrets, as well as of achievements and satisfactions. Part of these careers were spent working in areas other than scholarship, such as high school teaching, consultancies, volunteering, teaching English as a second language, or doing menial jobs just to keep going. Serendipity is a pathbreaking form of historiography and essential to the Pacific history field.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Dad -- , Contents -- , Foreword -- , Preface and Acknowledgments -- , Serendipity: An Introduction -- , PART I THE AMERICAN CONNECTION -- , CHAPTER 1 Papaya Archives Tin Roofs and Marble Arches -- , CHAPTER 2 Doing What I Could -- , CHAPTER 3 Voyaging through History -- , CHAPTER 4 The Long Way Home Voyages of Discovery through Pacific History -- , PART II THE AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION -- , CHAPTER 5 Capable and Enthusiastic -- , CHAPTER 6 Crossing Boundaries and History -- , CHAPTER 7 Long Winding Road from Tabia -- , CHAPTER 8 Pacific Historian Manqué -- , CHAPTER 9 Pacific Pentimento: The Journey of a Pakeha Scholar -- , CHAPTER 10 Why Not Pacific History? Chance and the Making of an Ethnohistorian -- , PART III THE USP CONNECTION -- , CHAPTER 11 A Long and Winding Road -- , CHAPTER 12 Negotiating and Reconciling Old and New Ancestry -- , CHAPTER 13 Serendipity or Working with Circumstances? -- , CHAPTER 14 Of Choice, Chance, and Contingency -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824897161

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Format: XXII, 404 S. , Ill.

ISBN: 0824814185

Series Statement: Pacific islands monograph series 11

Note: Center for Pacific Islands Studies; School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii , Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-395) and index

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Fidschi ; Geschichte 1900-1990

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (594 p.)

ISBN: 9781760462666

Content: ‘What I have sought to do in my work is to give voiceless people a voice, place and purpose, the sense of dignity and inner strength that comes from never giving up no matter how difficult the circumstances. History belongs as much to the vanquished as to the victors.’ — Brij V. Lal. ‘Professor Brij Lal is the finest historian of the Indian indentured experience and the Indian diaspora. His Girmitiyas is a classic.’ — Emeritus Professor Clem Seecharan, London Metropolitan University. ‘Brij Lal is a highly respected, versatile and imaginative scholar who has made a lasting contribution to the historiography of the Pacific.’ — Dr Rod Alley, Victoria University of Wellington. ‘Professor Brij Lal’s life is a remarkable journey of a scholar and an intellectual whose writings are truly transformative; a man of moral clarity and courage who also has deep pain at being cut off from his homeland.’ — Professor Michael Wesley, Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. ‘Brij Lal is a singular scholar, whose work has spanned disciplines – from history, political commentary, encyclopedia, biography and “faction”. Brij is without doubt the most eminent scholar in the humanities and social sciences Fiji has ever produced. He also remains one of the most significant public intellectuals of his country, despite having been banned from entering it in 2009.’ — Emeritus Professor Clive Moore, University of Queensland. ‘Brij Lal is an accomplished and versatile historian and true son of Fiji. Above all, there is affirmation here of the enduring worth of good literature and the value of good education that Lal received and wants others to experience. The world needs more Lals who speak out against ruling opinions and dare to stray into the pastures of independent thought.’ — Professor Doug Munro, historian and biographer, Wellington, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland

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Language: English

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Format: X, 186 S , Kt

ISBN: 1740760034

Language: English

Keywords: Fidschi ; Putsch ; Geschichte 2000 ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 264 S

ISBN: 9780824829421 , 0824829425

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Ozeanien ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (186 p.)

Content: May 19, 2000. Fiji’s democratically elected multiracial government is hijacked by a group of armed gunmen led by George Speight, and held hostage for fifty days. Suva, the capital, is torched and looted as Speight’s supporters gather on the lawns of the parliamentary complex, dancing, cooking food, celebrating the purported abrogation of the constitution that brought the People’s Coalition government to power. The country is plunged into darkness yet again, enduring the pain of three coups in a period of just thirteen years. The process of healing and reconciliation, symbolised by the enactment of a new Constitution, unanimously approved by Parliament and blessed by the powerful Great Council of Chiefs, lies discarded, as winds of ethnic chauvinism sweep through the countryside, damaging the fragile fabric of multiculturalism that was carefully constructed by so many over many years. The economy is on the brink of collapse, investor confidence has vanished, and the best and the brightest are seeking succour on other shores. Fiji falls victim, yet again, to the prejudice and greed of a section of its people. This book gathers together a handful of memoirs of those tragic events in Fiji. They were written while the gun was still smoking; personal, anguished reactions of people from all walks of life, concerned about a country they all love but deeply distressed by the developments there. They are first reactions. They will in time become essential building blocks for a larger interpretive framework of academic analysis about origins, processes and impacts. Straight from the heart, these memoirs will be remembered as the people of Fiji and their friends elsewhere contemplate the wreckage and ruin brought about by that act of madness in the month of May 2000

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Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (287 pages)

ISBN: 9781921666599

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Preliminary; Preface to this Edition; Prologue; Chapter 1: Retrospect; Chapter 2: Child of Gujarat; Chapter 3: Into the Fray; Chapter 4: Company and Kisan; Chapter 5: Flesh on the Skeleton; Chapter 6: Interregnum; Chapter 7: Fire in the Cane Fields; Chapter 8: Towards Freedom; Chapter 9: Shaking the Foundatio; Chapter 10: Independence Now; Chapter 11: The End in Harness; References; Appendix: Telling the Life of A.D. Patel; Index , Also available in print form. , English

Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781921666582

Language: English