Atoll Politics
Author | : Howard Van Trease |
Publisher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Kiribati |
ISBN | : 9780958330008 |
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Author | : Howard Van Trease |
Publisher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Kiribati |
ISBN | : 9780958330008 |
Author | : Jim Philippo |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1499062559 |
Long before the advent of what became known as The Project, Iroijlaplap Imata Jabro Kabua and I discussed this matter and got our minds together to work the details to this writing. It is indeed a great honor and privilege to have worked alongside a man whom I have not only come to admire and respect but also consider as my Iroijlaplap (paramount king) and a man of the people who deserves to be called a king unto his people. Throughout all my interactions and travels with Iroijlaplap Jabro, I have seen this man as one who affects the outcome of destiny through his interaction with many of his people or with just about anyone. He could be reserved if he chooses to be, and he could be so direct in his conversation that at certain times, one could see the blush on his or her face. In his dealing with people, he could be your best friend and your worst enemy. Iroijlaplap Jabro likes telling it this way, I dont write things down, but I keep everything up here, pointing his fingers at his head. Intelligent and witty in his own ways and sharp as a razor blade, in dealing with him you know you are in the presence of a man who has had his walks around the block and walks the walk and talks the talk. Most of all, he is fair in his dealings with people. He is the kindly king, who goes out of his way to those who are in need of his services. He has been known to say, I am only good as a servant to my people.
Author | : D. G. Kermode |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780853237877 |
Offshore Island Politics is a fascinating study of the constitutional and political development of the Isle of Man. The book analyzes three broad aspects of twentieth-century political development: constitutional progress towards self-government, elections and public policy and the changing role of the state in Manx society. One of the most important political changes the study addresses is the gradual ascendancy of the directly elected House of Keys in Manx politics. Offshore Island Politics concludes with a look at the final two decades of the century, a period of population growth and unprecedented prosperity for the small offshore island.
Author | : |
Publisher | : [email protected] |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789820200517 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : East-West Center |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
" ... This book is an introduction to the contemporary Pacific Islands, intended primarily for interested individuals in government, business, and academia, as well as for students. It provides a succinct account of trends, issues, and recent developments affecting the islands in the political, economic, and international relations fields. The book is organized functionally, but also contains sketches of the individual island nations and groups ..."--Back cover.
Author | : Ruth Douglas Currie |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476626324 |
For centuries, the Marshall Islands have been drawn into international politics, primarily because of their central location in Oceania. After World War II they came into the American sphere as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. At the outset of the Cold War, the Marshalls were a site for nuclear tests and later for the U.S. Army's ballistic missile testing as part of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. This book focuses on the islanders' tenacious negotiations for independence and control of their land, accomplished as the Republic of the Marshall Islands in a Compact of Free Association with the U.S. The creation of American policy in the Pacific was a struggle between the U.S. departments of the Interior and State, and the military's goals for strategic national defense, as illustrated by the case of the Army's base at Kwajalein Atoll.
Author | : Barrie Macdonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Kiribati |
ISBN | : |
Paper linking research on 'good governance'in the Third World to a case study of the Republic of Kiribati. It questions the validity of the ideologically driven approach taken by the World Bank and suggests that standard checklists of good governance characteristics do not sufficiently allow for factors such as cultural diversity and local economic circumstances. Includes references. The author is professor of history at Massey University, NZ.
Author | : Niko Besnier |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2009-07-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0824833570 |
Although gossip is disapproved of across the world’s societies, it is a prominent feature of sociality, whose role in the construction of society and culture cannot be overestimated. In particular, gossip is central to the enactment of politics: through it people transform difference into inequality and enact or challenge power structures. Based on the author’s intimate ethnographic knowledge of Nukulaelae Atoll, Tuvalu, this work uses an analysis of gossip as political action to develop a holistic understanding of a number of disparate themes, including conflict, power, agency, morality, emotion, locality, belief, and gender. It brings together two methodological traditions—the microscopic analysis of unelicited interaction and the macroscopic interpretation of social practice—that are rarely wedded successfully. Drawing on a broad range of theoretical resources, Niko Besnier approaches gossip from several angles. A detailed analysis of how Nukulaelae’s people structure their gossip interactions demonstrates that this structure reflects and contributes to the atoll’s political ideology, which wavers between a staunch egalitarianism and a need for hierarchy. His discussion then turns to narratives of specific events in which gossip played an important role in either enacting egalitarianism or reinforcing inequality. Embedding gossip in a broad range of communicative practices enables Besnier to develop a nuanced analysis of how gossip operates, demonstrating how it allows some to gain power while others suffer because of it. Throughout, he is particularly attentive to the ways in which anthropologists themselves are the subject and object of gossip, making his work a notable contribution to reflexive social science. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics will appeal to students and scholars of political, legal, linguistic, and psychological anthropology; social science methodology; communication, conflict, gender, and globalization studies; and Pacific Islands studies.
Author | : Josede Figirliyong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Ulithi (Micronesia) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Keith Chambers |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2000-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478608293 |
Thousands of years ago, Polynesian voyagers discovered and settled Nanumea atoll, a tiny cluster of coral islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The community prospered, first evolving into a traditional culture finely tuned to the atolls limited environment and then weathering new changes imposed by missionaries, colonial officials, and Westernization itself. Now one of eight separate island communities comprising the modern Pacific nation of Tuvalu, Nanumea faces new challenges: rising sea levels, globalization, and massive social and economic changes. Using personal stories that evoke the difficulties and excitement of fieldwork, Keith and Anne Chambers draw on more than twenty-five years of ethnographic research in Nanumea to craft an engaging account of Nanumean culture and social organization. Readers will come to appreciate how the communitys intense sharing obligations, service-oriented chieftainship, and a flexible system of extensive kinship reckoning define a lifestyle that differs fundamentally from modern Western society.