03013nam 2200517 n 450 991064737990332120240419002939.097817604654451760465445(CKB)5580000000492575(NjHacI)995580000000492575(MiAaPQ)EBC30291474(Au-PeEL)EBL30291474(OCoLC)1356978817(Perlego)3802847(oapen)doab97778(EXLCZ)99558000000049257520230429d2022 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUnsung Land, Aspiring Nation Journeys in Bougainville /Gordon Peake1st ed.CanberraANU Press2022Canberra :ANU Press,2022.1 online resource (178 pages)Pacific Series9781760465438 1760465437 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.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 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.Pacific SeriesUnsung Land, Aspiring NationPolitical participationPapua New GuineaBougainville ProvincePapua New GuineaHistoryPolitical participation995.3Peake Gordon1351537NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910647379903321Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation3115373UNINA