Speight Of Violence
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Speight Of Violence
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Author : Michael Field
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2005
Speight Of Violence written by Michael Field 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 2005 with Fiji categories.
"In May 2000 a gang of soldiers and failed politicians, with George Speight at their head, burst into Fiji's Parliament and captured the nation's government led by its first Indo-Fijian prime minister, Mahendra Chaudhry. As the politicians were seized, hundreds of rebels ransacked Fiji's capital Suva." "This was supposed to be a coup by indigenous Fijians angry at their loss of power. But as the drama unfolded and Speight's rebels continued to hold the politicians hostage, the spectacle turned into a power struggle pitting Fijians against each other. This climaxed in a violent military mutiny." "Speight of Violence offers an insiders' view of what happened. Extracts from a secret diary kept by Deputy Prime Minister Tupeni Baba during his 56 days in captivity tell of Speight's behaviour, the conditions inside Parliament, and the beating of Chaudhry; and Red Cross letters between Tupeni and his partner Unaisi Nabobo-Baba reveal the distress and deprivations suffered by the hostages' families. Veteran Pacific reporter Michael Field, who covered the coup and the treason trials which followed, reports the barricade, court and media dramas and offers a powerful analysis of what it all meant."--BOOK JACKET.
State Of Suffering
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Author : Susanna Trnka
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-02
State Of Suffering written by Susanna Trnka and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-02 with Social Science categories.
How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the Fijian nationalist coup. The overthrow of the elected multiethnic party led to six months of nationalist aggression, much of which was directed toward Indo-Fijians. In State of Suffering, Trnka shows how Indo-Fijians' lives were overturned as waves of turmoil and destruction swept across Fiji. Describing the myriad social processes through which violence is articulated and ascribed meaning-including expressions of incredulity, circulation of rumors, narratives, and exchanges of laughter and jokes-Trnka reveals the ways in which the community engages in these practices as individuals experience, and try to understand, the consequences of the coup. She then considers different kinds of pain caused by political chaos and social turbulence, including pain resulting from bodily harm, shared terror, and the distress precipitated by economic crisis and social dislocation. Throughout this book, Trnka focuses on the collective social process through which violence is embodied, articulated, and silenced by those it targets. Her sensitive ethnography is a valuable addition to the global conversation about the impact of political violence on community life.
Youth Violence
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Youth Violence written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Social Science categories.
From Election To Coup In Fiji
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Author : Jonathan Fraenkel
language : en
Publisher: ANU E Press
Release Date : 2007-06-01
From Election To Coup In Fiji written by Jonathan Fraenkel and has been published by ANU E Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-01 with Political Science categories.
Provides an analysis of the lead-up to, the outcome, and the aftermath of Fiji's historic 2006 election - including the December coup. Contributions from ex-Vice President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi; ousted Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase; interim Minister for Finance Mahendra Chaudhry; and an array of leading commentators.
Digital Hinduism
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Author : Murali Balaji
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-11-01
Digital Hinduism written by Murali Balaji and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with Religion categories.
Digital Hinduism examines how Hinduism is being defined, reformed, and rearticulated in the digital era and how these changes are impacting the way Hindus view their own religious identities.
Civilization Violence
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Author : Imbesat Daudi MD, PhD, FACS
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-03-05
Civilization Violence written by Imbesat Daudi MD, PhD, FACS and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-05 with Political Science categories.
Is Islamic civilization violent? Many in the West believe that Islam and Muslims are indeed violent. In the Muslim world, this question itself implies Western prejudice. The answer can only be achieved by comparing various parameters of the violence of “civilizations”. In this book, violent conflicts of various “civilizations” of the last two centuries have been quantified, compared and analyzed through well-established scientific principles and presented in layman's terms.
The Political Uses Of Motherhood In America
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Author : Cynthia Stavrianos
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-13
The Political Uses Of Motherhood In America written by Cynthia Stavrianos and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-13 with Political Science categories.
As various contemporary groups use the language of motherhood to advance their political causes, maternal rhetoric has become very visible in the American political discourse of late. Yet while it has long been recognized that women have invoked their political status as mothers to organize and authorize their political action in the past, scholars have only just begun to examine the recent reemergence of this frame. This book describes the wide variety of political causes that mothers are organizing to address, and analyses whether ideologically conservative organizations are disproportionately represented among groups using motherhood to mobilize women. Stavrianos examines the use of maternal discourses in closer detail through a comparative case study of five groups using motherhood as their primary frame for collective political action: Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Million Mom March, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens, Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust, and Mothers in Charge. Scholars interested in women and politics, interest group politics, social movements, political behavior, women’s studies, motherhood studies, and framing strategies will find this book noteworthy, as it adds to a growing body of literature exploring the use of motherhood as an emerging political frame, and to the interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary discourses of motherhood.
Australian Book Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Australian Book Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Books categories.
Represented Communities
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Author : John D. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-09
Represented Communities written by John D. Kelly and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09 with History categories.
In 1983 Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities revolutionized the anthropology of nationalism. Anderson argued that "print capitalism" fostered nations as imagined communities in a modular form that became the culture of modernity. Now, in Represented Communities, John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan offer an extensive and devastating critique of Anderson's depictions of colonial history, his comparative method, and his political anthropology. The authors build a forceful argument around events in Fiji from World War II to the 2000 coups, showing how focus on "imagined communities" underestimates colonial history and obscures the struggle over legal rights and political representation in postcolonial nation-states. They show that the "self-determining" nation-state actually emerged with the postwar construction of the United Nations, fundamentally changing the politics of representation. Sophisticated and impassioned, this book will further anthropology's contribution to the understanding of contemporary nationalisms.
Conflict And Cooperation In Multi Ethnic States
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Author : Brian Shoup
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-08-08
Conflict And Cooperation In Multi Ethnic States written by Brian Shoup and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-08 with History categories.
Interethnic competition in plural societies is often characterized by a ‘counterbalance’ of political and economic strength between different groups. In such cases, tensions emerge as politically dominant groups fear loss of hegemony to more economically aggressive groups. Likewise, economically successful groups require key public goods and a political atmosphere conducive to investment. These social relations are couched in terms of ethnic mythologies that stress the indigenous role of one group, and consequently its superior political status. This book develops a model that explains how and why interethnic bargains between rival groups can erode given different institutional configurations. It is hypothesized that interethnic conflict is more likely in countries where political institutions fail to insulate the political hegemony of traditionally dominant ethnic communities and redistributive programs fail to improve the economic position of ethnic majorities. In such cases, outbidding strategies by more extreme ethnic leaders are more successful and violence becomes more likely. Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States will be of interest to students of ethnic conflict, Asian politics and security studies.