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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813196303321

Titolo

Pacific realities : changing perspectives on resilience and resistance / / edited by Laurent Dousset and Melissa Nayral

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2019

ISBN

1-78920-041-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Pacific perspectives : studies of the European society for oceanists ; ; 6

Disciplina

303.48/21823

Soggetti

Glocalization - Pacific Area

Globalization - Social aspects - Pacific Area

Pacific Area Social conditions 21st century Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. A Story in and on Signs -- 2. Global Models and Local Management of Land Ownership in Rapa (French Polynesia) -- 3. Between Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance -- 4. Resisting UN Ideals to Make Men and Women Equal in Politics -- 5. Independence from Independence -- 6. The Reasonableness of Leaders and the Gaming of Mining Incomes in Papua New Guinea -- Afterword -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 specificities. Consequently, new forms of resistance and resilience – the processes by which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement – emerge. Through case studies from across the Pacific which transcend the conventional “local-global” dichotomy, this volume aims to explore these complex and interwoven phenomena from a new perspective.