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UNINA9910647379903321 |
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Autore |
Peake Gordon |
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Titolo |
Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation : Journeys in Bougainville / / Gordon Peake |
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Canberra, : ANU Press, 2022 |
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Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2022 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (178 pages) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political participation - Papua New Guinea - Bougainville Province |
Papua New Guinea History |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Abbreviations and other shortened forms -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One -- 1. Aid comes to my aid -- 2. Arrival -- 3. Make-work and workshops -- 4. Bookanville -- 5. Have licence, lack engine -- 6. A trip to Port Moresby -- Part Two -- 7. The road to Arawa -- 8. Town of ghosts -- 9. Buka's bestseller -- 10. Beatrice's Bougainville -- 11. Plan A -- 12. Plan B and whiskey to the rescue -- 13. Institutions new and old, seen and unseen -- Part Three -- 14. Odd jobs, family trips and a friend worth fighting for -- 15. Referendum days -- 16. The stone pillars -- 17. The result of all this -- Epilogue -- Glossary. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In 2016, Gordon Peake answers a job advertisement for a role with the government of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, a collection of islands on the eastern fringe of Papua New Guinea looking to strike out as a country of its own. In his day job he sees at first hand the challenges of trying to stand up new government systems. Away from the office he travels with former rebels, follows an anthropologist's ghost and visits landmarks from the region's conflict. In 2019, he witnesses joy and euphoria as the people of Bougainville vote in a referendum on their future. Out of these encounters emerges an unforgettable portrait of this potential nation-in-waiting. Blending |
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narrative history, travelogue and personal reminiscences, Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation is an engaging memoir as well as an insightful meditation on the realities of nation-making and international development. |
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