04704nam 2200649 450 991079116470332120230803221617.01-921902-41-81-921902-42-6(CKB)2550000001324365(EBL)1725125(SSID)ssj0001321489(PQKBManifestationID)11886315(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001321489(PQKBWorkID)11371059(PQKB)10690863(MiAaPQ)EBC1725125(Au-PeEL)EBL1725125(CaPaEBR)ebr10890724(CaONFJC)MIL623568(OCoLC)882778447(EXLCZ)99255000000132436520140718h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrManaging modernity in the Western Pacific /edited by Mary Patterson & Martha Macintyre ; cover design, Kate BarryQueensland :UQ ePress,2014.©20141 online resource (335 p.)Pacific Studies SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-921902-40-X Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Managing the Pacific; Development and its dilemmas; Being personally modern?; Land matters; Rationally religious?; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 1; Occultism in cultural modernity; The intellectualisation of magic and religion; Rational illusions of secular modernity; Pandaemonium: mythic modernity's and human religion; Millennial capitalism: occult economies and magical states; Conclusion: modernity as a demon-haunted universe; Notes; Chapter 2; The (not so) Pacific?; Economies of scale?; Desire in the post colony; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3Working for the mine The double shift; Working women and community attitudes; Career women working in towns; Self-interest and modern selves; Bride price; Managing money; Notes; Chapter 4; Welcoming the church; Bringing down the company; Mismanaging modernity; Notes; Chapter 5; Living a biblical life; The true me; The politics of Christian subjectivity; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6; The fast money rush; Greed and gullibility? cargo or investment?; Productive investment?; Nationalism and consumption; A nation of shareholders; Balthasar and Rebecca: banks and the critique of the nationIsaac: the righteous investor Christian citizens of a corrupt and immoral nation; Consumer citizens, corporate citizenship and national development; The moral critique of the possessive individual; Patrons, clients and neoliberalism; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7; Neoliberalism and the age of chance; Gambling, governance and the cook Islands economy; Home and housie; Women, work and gambling; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8; Islands of winmoni; New standards for reasonable accomplishment; PV in the Lihir islands; Lessons in self-mastery; Personal Viability anthem; Self-disciplineInvesting (in)dividuals Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9; Relocating trusts in a Pacific tax haven; The aesthetics of trust management and fictive kinship in the mobility of money; Background: tax havens and offshore capitalisms; Trusts, fiduciaries and the separation of persons and property; Privileged papers, Swiss bank accounts and Hawai'ian credit cards; Fiduciaries, bilateral flows and family relations; Methods for 'ethnographic elicitations'; Letting go; Conclusion; Notes; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Index; CopyrightFast money schemes in Papua New Guinea, collectivities in rural Solomon Islands, gambling in the Cook Islands, and the Vanuatu tax haven-all feature in the interface between Pacific and global economies. Since the 1970's, Melanesian countries and their peoples have been beguiled by the prospect of economic development that would enable them to participate in a world market economic system. Access to global markets would provide the means to improve their standard of living, allowing them to take their places as independent nations in a modern world. Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific...Pacific studies series.CapitalismPacific AreaGlobalizationPacific AreaNeoliberalismPacific AreaCapitalismGlobalizationNeoliberalism330.122Macintyre Martha1945-Barry KateMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791164703321Managing modernity in the Western Pacific3809152UNINA02845nam 2200625 a 450 991097362500332120200520144314.097802680937090268093709(CKB)2560000000052762(OCoLC)694145912(CaPaEBR)ebrary10425448(SSID)ssj0000484376(PQKBManifestationID)11332324(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484376(PQKBWorkID)10594312(PQKB)11477356(MiAaPQ)EBC3441068(MdBmJHUP)muse14831(Au-PeEL)EBL3441068(CaPaEBR)ebr10425448(Perlego)4329988(EXLCZ)99256000000005276220080626d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFinding Ireland a poet's explorations of Irish literature and culture /Richard Tillinghast1st ed.Notre Dame, Ind. University of Notre Dame Pressc20081 online resource (297 p.) Includes index.9780268042325 0268042322 Finding Ireland -- Letter from Galway, 1990 -- Letter from Dublin, 1998 : the Celtic tiger-- Letter from Dublin, 2005 : Wilde, Synge, and Orpen -- Who were the Anglo-Irish? -- The uneasy world of Somerville and Ross -- Travels through Somerville and Ross's Ireland -- The asymmetrical George Moore -- Elizabeth Bowen : the house, the hotel, and the child -- William Trevor : "they were as good as we were" -- Listening to Irish traditional music -- Flann O'Brien : no laughing matter -- Brian Friel : transcending the Irish national pastime -- Seamus Heaney's "middle voice" -- Derek Mahon : exile and stranger -- The future of Irish poetry? -- Mount Stewart : its gardens, house, and family -- W.B. Yeats : the labyrinth of another's being -- Looking for Yeats in Yeats country -- From Venice to Tipperary.Richard Tillinghast writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its culture, its literature, and its long, complex history.Literary landmarksIrelandAuthors, IrishHomes and hauntsIrelandEnglish literatureIrish authorsHistory and criticismIrelandIntellectual lifeIrelandDescription and travelLiterary landmarksAuthors, IrishHomes and hauntsEnglish literatureIrish authorsHistory and criticism.820.9/9415Tillinghast Richard1670224MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973625003321Finding Ireland4366384UNINA