Pacific Realities : : Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance / / ed. by Mélissa Nayral, Laurent Dousset.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Burton, John,; Dousset, Laurent,; Emde, Sina,; Ghasarian, Christian,; Macintyre, Martha,; Musharbash, Yasmine,; Nayral, Mélissa,
• HerausgeberIn: Dousset, Laurent,; Nayral, Mélissa,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)

Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of “glocalization”; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities. Consequently, new forms of resistance and resilience – the processes by which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement – emerge. Through case studies from across the Pacific which transcend the conventional “local-global” dichotomy, this volume aims to explore these complex and interwoven phenomena from a new perspective.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. A Story in and on Signs -- 2. Global Models and Local Management of Land Ownership in Rapa (French Polynesia) -- 3. Between Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance -- 4. Resisting UN Ideals to Make Men and Women Equal in Politics -- 5. Independence from Independence -- 6. The Reasonableness of Leaders and the Gaming of Mining Incomes in Papua New Guinea -- Afterword -- Index