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The Mauritian Paradox : Fifty years of Development, Diversity and Democracy /

Speaking of Mauritius as an economic miracle has become a cliche, and with good reason: Its development since Independence in 1968 can easily be narrated as a rags-to-riches story. In addition, it is a stable democracy capable of containing the conflict potential inherent in its complex ethnic and r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Editor ), Ramtohul, Ramola (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018.
Reduit, Mauritius : University of Mauritius Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Ramola Ramtohul
  • The Constitution at 50 / Milan J.N. Meetarbhan
  • Stability and dilemmas : the Mauritian electoral system / Tania Diolle
  • Political leadership in Mauritius : the trappings of the poster child syndrome / Roukaya Kasenally
  • The media as agents of democracy in Mauritius : issues and challenges since independence / Christina Chan-Meetoo
  • Mauritius' economic success uncovered / Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur and Harshana Kasseeah
  • Genealogies of a miracle : a historical anthropology of the Mauritian Export Processing Zone / Patrick Neveling
  • Small is beautiful, but is it viable? Scale and Mauritian options for the next 50 years / Thomas Hylland Eriksen
  • Transcending Intersectional Identities : the establishment of the women's movement in postcolonial Mauritius / Ramola Ramtohul
  • The materiality of multiculturalism : an archaeological perspective / Krish Seetah, Diego Calaon, SaŠa Čaval, Alessandra Cianciosi and Aleksander Pluskowski
  • Young people living multiculturalism in contemporary Mauritius / Caroline Ng Tseung-Wong
  • From language to religion in Mauritian nation-building / Patrick Eisenlohr
  • Performative historiography of the mothertongue : reading 'kreol' outside a colonial and nationalist approach / Gitanjali Pyndiah
  • Deconstructing Mauritian literature / Julie Peghini
  • "For Mauritians, joy; for Chagossians, sadness" : Mauritian independence, the sacrifice of the Chagos Archipelago, and the suffering of the Chagos islanders / Laura Jeffery
  • 'Being 'Mauritian' : Indo-Mauritians in the UK / Sean F. Carey.