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Pacific Realities : Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance.

Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of "glocalization"; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specif...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dousset, Laurent
Other Authors: Nayral, Mélissa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2018.
Series:Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists Ser.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Pacific Realities; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction. Resistance and Resilience; Chapter 1. A Story in and on Signs; Chapter 2. Global Models and Local Management of Land Ownership in Rapa (French Polynesia); Chapter 3. Between Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance; Chapter 4. Resisting UN Ideals to Make Men and Women Equal in Politics; Chapter 5. Independence from Independence; Chapter 6. The Reasonableness of Leaders and the Gaming of Mining Incomes in Papua New Guinea; Afterword. Values in Flux; Index.