Pacific Realities

Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance
Herausgeber: Dousset, Laurent; Nayral, Mélissa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The reconsideration of the notions of resilience and resistance in the light of social change Tackling resilience and resistance as complementary processes Relocating social change in terms of resilience from a system perspective back to the actor-perspective

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781789200409
• ISBN-10: 1789200407
• Artikelnr.: 52524631

Autorenporträt

Laurent Dousset is Professor at the EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) and member of the CREDO (Centre for Research and Documentation on Oceania, Marseilles). His publications include Assimilating Identities: Social Networks and the Diffusion of Sections (Oceania Monographs, 2005), The Scope of Anthropology (with S. Tcherkézoff, Berghahn 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Introduction: Resistance and Resilience
Laurent Dousset and Mélissa Nayral
Chapter 1. A Story in and on Signs: Making Resistance and Acquiescence
Legible as Forms of Resilience
Yasmine Musharbash
Chapter 2. Global Models and Local Management of Land Ownership in Rapa
(French Polynesia)
Christian Ghasarian
Chapter 3. Between Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance: Fiji Islander
Women Activists and the Ethno-Nationalist Political Crises in 2000
Sina Emde
Chapter 4. Resisting UN Ideals to Make Men and Women Equal in Politics:
When a Humanist Concern Turns into Arithmetic in Ouvea (New Caledonia)
Mélissa Nayral
Chapter 5. Independence from Independence: History, Landownership and
Politics in South Malekula, Vanuatu
Laurent Dousset
Chapter 6. The Reasonableness of Leaders and the Gaming of Mining Incomes
in Papua New Guinea
John Burton
Afterword: Values in Flux - Reflections on Resilience and Change in
Melanesia
Martha Macintyre
Index