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Pacific Futures

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Author : Michael Powles
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006

Pacific Futures written by Michael Powles and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.

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.

Pacific Futures

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Author : Warwick Anderson
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2018-11-30

Pacific Futures written by Warwick Anderson and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-30 with History categories.

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.

Island Time

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Author : Damon Salesa
language : en
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Release Date : 2017-12-08

Island Time written by Damon Salesa and has been published by Bridget Williams Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-08 with Social Science categories.

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?

Pacific Futures

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Author : Will Rollason
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2014-07-30

Pacific Futures written by Will Rollason and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-30 with Social Science categories.

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.

South Pacific Futures

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Author : Anthony B. Van Fossen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-01-01

South Pacific Futures written by Anthony B. Van Fossen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Oceania categories.

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.

South Pacific Futures

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

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Special Issue From The 15th Annual Asia Pacific Futures Research Symposium

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Author : Asia Pacific Futures Research Symposium. 15, 2005, Singapore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Special Issue From The 15th Annual Asia Pacific Futures Research Symposium written by Asia Pacific Futures Research Symposium. 15, 2005, Singapore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.