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Autore: |
Ratuva Steven
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Titolo: |
Politics of preferential development : trans-global study of affirmative action and ethnic conflict in Fiji, Malaysia and South Africa / / Steven Ratuva
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Pubblicazione: | Canberra : , : Australian National University, E Press, , [2013] |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
Soggetto topico: | Minorities - Political aspects |
Race relations - Political aspects | |
Ethnic relations - Political aspects | |
Soggetto geografico: | Malaysia |
South Africa | |
Fiji | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Acknowledgements; 1. Affirmative action and trans-global study; 2. Proto-affirmative action: Indigenous Fijian development from cession to independence; 3. Politicized affirmative action: Independence in 1970 to the 1987 military coup; 4. The 1987 military coup: Affirmative action by the gun; 5. Social engineering: Attempts to create an indigenous entrepreneurial class; 6. Appeasement, scams and tension: Affirmative action programs, 1999 to 2006; 7. Post-2006 coup affirmative action: Development at gunpoint; 8. Ethnicity, reform and affirmative action in Malaysia |
9. "Black empowerment" policies: Dilemmas of affirmative action in South Africa10. Trans-global affirmative action: Some critical lessons; References; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | The book is a critical examination of affirmative action, a form of preferential development often used to address the situation of disadvantaged groups. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Politics of preferential development ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-925021-03-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910142121703321 |
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