LEADER 04738nam 2200661 450 001 9910458717503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-921902-41-8 010 $a1-921902-42-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001324365 035 $a(EBL)1725125 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001321489 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11886315 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001321489 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11371059 035 $a(PQKB)10690863 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1725125 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1725125 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10890724 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL623568 035 $a(OCoLC)882778447 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001324365 100 $a20140718h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aManaging modernity in the Western Pacific /$fedited by Mary Patterson & Martha Macintyre ; cover design, Kate Barry 210 1$aQueensland :$cUQ ePress,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 225 1 $aPacific Studies Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-921902-40-X 327 $aCover; 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 3 327 $aWorking 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 nation 327 $aIsaac: 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-discipline 327 $aInvesting (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; Copyright 330 $aFast money schemes in Papua New Guinea, collectivities in rural Solomon Islands, gambling in the Cook Islands, and the Vanuatu tax haven-all feature in the interface between Pacific and global economies. Since the 1970's, Melanesian countries and their peoples have been beguiled by the prospect of economic development that would enable them to participate in a world market economic system. Access to global markets would provide the means to improve their standard of living, allowing them to take their places as independent nations in a modern world. Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific... 410 0$aPacific studies series. 606 $aCapitalism$zPacific Area 606 $aGlobalization$zPacific Area 606 $aNeoliberalism$zPacific Area 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCapitalism 615 0$aGlobalization 615 0$aNeoliberalism 676 $a330.122 702 $aMacintyre$b Martha$f1945- 702 $aBarry$b Kate 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458717503321 996 $aManaging modernity in the Western Pacific$92250293 997 $aUNINA