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UNINA9910142121703321 |
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Ratuva Steven |
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Titolo |
Politics of preferential development : trans-global study of affirmative action and ethnic conflict in Fiji, Malaysia and South Africa / / Steven Ratuva |
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Canberra : , : Australian National University, E Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Minorities - Political aspects |
Race relations - Political aspects |
Ethnic relations - Political aspects |
Malaysia |
South Africa |
Fiji |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Acknowledgements; 1. Affirmative action and trans-global study; 2. Proto-affirmative action: Indigenous Fijian development from cession to independence; 3. Politicized affirmative action: Independence in 1970 to the 1987 military coup; 4. The 1987 military coup: Affirmative action by the gun; 5. Social engineering: Attempts to create an indigenous entrepreneurial class; 6. Appeasement, scams and tension: Affirmative action programs, 1999 to 2006; 7. Post-2006 coup affirmative action: Development at gunpoint; 8. Ethnicity, reform and affirmative action in Malaysia |
9. "Black empowerment" policies: Dilemmas of affirmative action in South Africa10. Trans-global affirmative action: Some critical lessons; References; Index |
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The book is a critical examination of affirmative action, a form of preferential development often used to address the situation of disadvantaged groups. |
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UNINA9910794051303321 |
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Berger Jason <1976-> |
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Xenocitizens : illiberal ontologies in nineteenth-century America / / Jason Berger |
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New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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1 online resource (289 pages) |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Liberalism in literature |
Social change in literature |
Liberalism - United States - History - 19th century |
Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Xenocitizens -- 1. Emerson’s Operative Mood -- 2. Agitating Margaret Fuller -- 3. Thoreau’s Militant Vegetables -- 4. Unadjusted Emancipations -- Epilogue: Care, There and Now -- Notes -- Index |
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In Xenocitizens, Jason Berger returns to the antebellum United States in order to challenge a scholarly tradition based on liberal–humanist perspectives. Through the concept of the xenocitizen, a synthesis of the terms “xeno,” which connotes alien or stranger, and “citizen,” which signals a naturalized subject of a state, Berger uncovers realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant paradigms. Innovatively re-orienting our thinking about traditional nineteenth-century figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as well as formative writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin R. Delany, Margaret Fuller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Xenocitizens glimpses how antebellum thinkers formulated, in response to varying forms of oppression and crisis, startlingly unique ontological and social models as well as unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change. In |
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doing so, Berger offers us a different nineteenth century—pushing our imaginative and critical thinking toward new terrain. |
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