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Understanding Oceania : celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with the Australian National University /

This book is inspired by the University of the South Pacific, the leading institution of higher education in the Pacific Islands region. Founded in 1968, USP has expanded the intellectual horizons of generations of students from its 12 member countries - Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Island...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Australian National University Press
Otros Autores: Firth, Stewart, Naidu, Vijay
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, [2019]
Colección:Pacific series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Themes / Stewart Firth
  • 2. A Commentary on the 50-Year History of the University of the South Pacific / Vijay Naidu
  • 3. The Road from Laucala Bay / Brij V. Lal
  • Part 1: Balancing Tradition and Modernity. 4. Change in Land Use and Villages--Fiji: 1958-1983 / R. Gerard Ward
  • 5. Matai Titles and Modern Corruption in Samoa: Costs, Expectations and Consequences for Families and Society / Morgan Tuimalealiʻifano
  • 6. Making Room for Magic in Intellectual Property Policy / Miranda Forsyth
  • Part 2: Politics and Political Economy. 7. Postcolonial Political Institutions in the South Pacific Islands: A Survey / Jon Fraenkel
  • 8. Neo-Liberalism and the Disciplining of Pacific Island States
  • the Dual Challenges of a Global Economic Creed and a Changed Geopolitical Order / Claire Slatter
  • 9. Defending the Inheritance: The SDL and the 2006 Election / Alumita Durutalo
  • Part 3: Reimagining. 10. Re-Presenting Melanesia: Ignoble Savages and Melanesian Alter-Natives / Tarcisius Kabutaulaka
  • 11. Man versus Myth: The Life and Times of Ratu Sukuna / Steven Ratuva
  • 12. All Saints' Primary, Labasa / Christine Weir
  • Part 4: Rethinking Development. 13. Development Assistance Challenges / Vijay Naidu
  • 14. Breaking Fiji's Coup Culture through Effective Rural Development / Joeli Veitayaki
  • 15. Urban Land in Solomon Islands: Powers of Exclusion and Counter-Exclusion / Joseph D. Foukona and Matthew G. Allen
  • Part 5: Into the Future. 16. The Ocean in Us / Epeli Hauʻofa
  • 17. The 'New Pacific Diplomacy': An Introduction / Sandra Tarte and Greg Fry
  • 18. Niu Mana, Sport, Media and the Australian Diaspora / Katerina Martina Teaiwa
  • Afterword / Stewart Firth.