Full title: Understanding Oceania : [electronic resource] : celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with the Australian National University / edited by Stewart Firth and Vijay Naidu.

Author/creator: Firth, Stewart, Naidu, Vijay, ProQuest (Firm), ProQuest Ebook Central.

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Record Identifier: 74VKaDWd23N3

Language: English

Formats: ebooks

Contents: 1 online resource ( xx, 408 pages) : maps, , , , 1. Themes / Stewart Firth -- 2. A Commentary on the 50-Year History of the University of the South Pacific / Vijay Naidu -- 3. The Road from Laucala Bay / Brij V. Lal -- Part 1: Balancing Tradition and Modernity. 4. Change in Land Use and Villages--Fiji: 1958-1983 / R. Gerard Ward -- 5. Matai Titles and Modern Corruption in Samoa: Costs, Expectations and Consequences for Families and Society / Morgan Tuimalealiʻifano -- 6. Making Room for Magic in Intellectual Property Policy / Miranda Forsyth -- Part 2: Politics and Political Economy. 7. Postcolonial Political Institutions in the South Pacific Islands: A Survey / Jon Fraenkel -- 8. Neo-Liberalism and the Disciplining of Pacific Island States -- the Dual Challenges of a Global Economic Creed and a Changed Geopolitical Order / Claire Slatter -- 9. Defending the Inheritance: The SDL and the 2006 Election / Alumita Durutalo -- Part 3: Reimagining. 10. Re-Presenting Melanesia: Ignoble Savages and Melanesian Alter-Natives / Tarcisius Kabutaulaka -- 11. Man versus Myth: The Life and Times of Ratu Sukuna / Steven Ratuva -- 12. All Saints' Primary, Labasa / Christine Weir -- Part 4: Rethinking Development. 13. Development Assistance Challenges / Vijay Naidu -- 14. Breaking Fiji's Coup Culture through Effective Rural Development / Joeli Veitayaki -- 15. Urban Land in Solomon Islands: Powers of Exclusion and Counter-Exclusion / Joseph D. Foukona and Matthew G. Allen -- Part 5: Into the Future. 16. The Ocean in Us / Epeli Hauʻofa -- 17. The 'New Pacific Diplomacy': An Introduction / Sandra Tarte and Greg Fry -- 18. Niu Mana, Sport, Media and the Australian Diaspora / Katerina Martina Teaiwa -- Afterword / Stewart Firth.

Publishers: Acton, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, [2019]

Notes: ANU Press Pacific Series Includes bibliographical references.

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DDC: 378.9611

MMS ID: 991024298887802626