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Pacific Futures
Author | : Warwick Anderson,Miranda Johnson,Barbara Brookes |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824877422 |
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How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that tell us about the distinctiveness or otherwise of this “sea of islands”? Foregrounding the work of leading and emerging scholars of Oceania, Pacific Futures brings together a diverse set of approaches to, and examples of, how futures are being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the past. Individual chapters engage the various and sometimes contested futures yearned for, unrealized, and even lost or forgotten, that are particular to the Pacific as a region, ocean, island network, destination, and home. Contributors recuperate the futures hoped for and dreamed up by a vast array of islanders and outlanders—from Indigenous federalists to Lutheran improvers to Cantonese small business owners—making these histories of the future visible. In so doing, the collection intervenes in debates about globalization in the Pacific—and how the region is acted on by outside forces—and postcolonial debates that emphasize the agency and resistance of Pacific peoples in the context of centuries of colonial endeavor. With a view to the effects of the “slow violence” of climate change, the volume also challenges scholars to think about the conditions of possibility for future-thinking at all in the midst of a global crisis that promises cataclysmic effects for the region. Pacific Futures highlights futures conceived in the context of a modernity coproduced by diverse Pacific peoples, taking resistance to categorization as a starting point rather than a conclusion. With its hospitable approach to thinking about history making and future thinking, one that is open to a wide range of methodological, epistemological, and political interests and commitments, the volume will encourage the writing of new histories of the Pacific and new ways of talking about history in this field, the region, and beyond.
Pacific Futures
Author | : Will Rollason |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-07-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781782383512 |
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The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a cost. Culture, often reconfigured as 'custom', has often served to trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worse-outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization. Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures which Pacific people dream of, predict or struggle to achieve, not the reproduction of cultural tradition. From Christianity to gambling, marriage to cargo cult, military coups to reflections on childhood fishing trips, the contributors to this volume show how Pacific people are actively shaping their lives with the future in mind.
Pacific Futures
Author | : Michael Powles |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015074273494 |
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A timely consideration of the continuing challenges to the economic, political, social and cultural survival of the nations of the Pacific region. The book contains essays addressing issues of governance, human rights and custom, law reform, language and culture loss, the potential for a single currency, labour mobility and development assistance.
Island Time
Author | : Damon Salesa |
Publsiher | : Bridget Williams Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-12-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781988533506 |
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The task of living in modern New Zealand – and especially in modern Auckland – is not just to understand how to live with different peoples, but how to adapt to the future that has already happened. New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot, see itself as a Pacific Island nation. Yet turning to the Pacific, argues Damon Salesa, enables us to grasp a fuller understanding of what life is really like on these shores. After all, Salesa argues, in many ways New Zealand’s Pacific future has already happened. Setting a course through the ‘islands’ of Pacific life in New Zealand – Ōtara, Tokoroa, Porirua, Ōamaru and beyond – he charts a country becoming ‘even more Pacific by the hour’. What would it mean, this far-sighted book asks, for New Zealand to recognise its Pacific talent and finally act like a Pacific nation?
South Pacific Futures
Author | : Anthony B. Van Fossen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Oceania |
ISBN | : 0958672865 |
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This book is the first comprehensive survey of expert views on he South Pacific region as it approaches the uncertain prospects of the next half century.
Frontiers Past and Future
Author | : Carl Abbott |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Alternative histories (Fiction), American |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106018584331 |
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"Abbott offers a fruitful new way to read science fiction, one that also greatly enriches our understanding of western history and its impact on our collective imagination. Detailing the overlap of science fiction and western fiction - especially relating to their mutual interest in and concerns about frontier expansionism - he reveals an unsuspected common ground that informs the writings of both camps." "Reviewing the work of many Hugo and Nebula Award winners, as well as drawing upon popular film and television series (like the Buck Rogers serials), Abbott's study journeys across the far reaches of science fiction's universe."
Pacific Youth
Author | : Helen Lee |
Publsiher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2019-10-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781760463229 |
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Pacific populations are becoming younger and this ‘youth bulge’ is often perceived as a dangerous precursor to civil unrest. Yet young people are also a valuable resource holding exciting potential for the future of island nations. Addressing these conflicting views of youth, this volume presents ethnographic case studies of young people from across the Pacific and the diaspora. Moving beyond the typical focus on ‘youth problems’ in reports by Pacific governments and development agencies, the authors examine the highly diverse lives and perspectives of young people in urban and rural locations. They celebrate the contributions of youth to their communities while examining the challenges they face. The case studies explore the impacts of profound local and global changes and cover a wide sweep of youth experiences across themes of education, employment and economic inequalities, political and civil engagement, and migration and the diaspora. Contributors to this volume bring many decades of experience of research with Pacific people as well as fresh perspectives from early career and graduate researchers. Most are anthropologists and their chapters contribute to the interdisciplinary fields of youth studies and Pacific studies, offering thought-provoking insights into the possibilities for Pacific youth as they face uncertain futures.
South Pacific Futures
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:893975796 |
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