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Record Nr.

UNINA9910360253603321

Autore

Fry Greg

Titolo

Framing the islands : power and diplomatic agency in Pacific regionalism / / Greg Fry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2019

Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-76046-315-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 399 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Pacific series

Disciplina

338.99

Soggetti

Regionalism - Pacific Area

Pacific Area Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Framing Oceania -- 2. Rethinking the political meaning of Pacific regionalism -- 3. The 'South Seas' in the imperial imagination -- 4. Colonial regionalism -- 5. The South Pacific experiment -- 6. The decolonisation of regional governance -- 7. The postcolonial regional polity -- 8. Regional self-determination -- 9. Negotiating regional security in the Cold War -- 10. Negotiating Pacific island development in the post-independence era -- 11. The neoliberal ascendancy and its critics -- 12. Reframing regional security in the post-Cold War era -- 13. The 'new' Pacific diplomacy and the transformation of regionalism -- 14. Conclusion: Power and diplomatic agency in Pacific regionalism.

Sommario/riassunto

Since its origins in late eighteenth-century European thought, the idea of placing a regional frame around the Pacific islands has never been just an exercise in geographical mapping. This framing has always been a political exercise. Contending regional projects and visions have been part of a political struggle concerning how Pacific islanders should live their lives. Framing the Islands tells the story of this political struggle and its impact on the regional governance of key issues for the Pacific such as regional development, resource management, security, cultural identity, political agency, climate change and nuclear involvement. It tells this story in the context of a changing world order



since the colonial period and of changing politics within the post-colonial states of the Pacific. Framing the Islands argues that Pacific regionalism has been politically significant for Pacific island states and societies. It demonstrates the power associated with the regional arena as a valued site for the negotiation of global ideas and processes around development, security and climate change. It also demonstrates the political significance associated with the role of Pacific regionalism as a diplomatic bloc in global affairs, and as a producer of powerful policy norms attached to funded programs. This study also challenges the expectation that Pacific regionalism largely serves hegemonic powers and that small islands states have little diplomatic agency in these contests. Pacific islanders have successfully promoted their own powerful normative framings of Oceania in the face of the attempted hegemonic impositions from outside the region; seen, for example, in the strong commitment to the ‘Blue Pacific continent’ framing as a guiding ideology for the policy work of the Pacific Islands Forum in the face of pressures to become part of Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910468231803321

Autore

Benton Jared T.

Titolo

The Bread Makers : The Social and Professional Lives of Bakers in the Western Roman Empire / / by Jared T. Benton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030466046

3030466043

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 216 p. 47 illus.)

Disciplina

937.09

Soggetti

Economic history

Europe - History - To 476

Ethnology

Industrial organization

Economic History

History of Ancient Europe

Sociocultural Anthropology

Industrial Organization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Chaînes Opératoires and the Making of Roman Bread -- 2. Baking as Cultural Heritage: Regional Variation in the Roman Production of Bread -- 3. Modes of Production: Bakeries as Factories and Workshops -- 4 Experiencing the Bakery: Training, Status, Labor, and Exploitation -- 5. Voluntary Associations and Collectivity: A View from the East and the West -- 6. Crafting an Image -- 7. Conclusion: The Question of the Roman Middle Class.

Sommario/riassunto

Bread was the staple of the ancient Mediterranean diet. It was present in the meals of emperors and on the tables of the poorest households. In many instances, a loaf of bread probably constituted an entire meal. As such, bread was both something that unified society and a milieu through which social and ethnic divisions played out. Similarly, bakers were not a monolithic demographic. They served both the rich and the poor, but some bakers clearly operated within regional traditions. Some lived in big cities and others lived in small towns. Some bakers made flat breads and others made leavened loaves. Some made coarse brown loaves and others specialized in fancier white breads. This book offers new methods and new ways of framing bread production in the Roman world to reveal the nuances of an industry that fed an empire. Inscriptions, Roman law, and material remains of Roman-period bakeries are combined to expose the cultural context of bread making, the economic context of commercialbaking, the social hierarchy within the workforces of bakeries, and the socio-economic strategies of Roman bakers.