Politics of preferential development : trans-global study of affirmative action and ethnic conflict in Fiji, Malaysia and South Africa / / Steven Ratuva

• Autore: Ratuva Steven
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II