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Pacific Women In Politics - Gender Quota Campaigns In The Pacific Islands

by Kerryn Baker

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 How do political actors in the Pacific islands region make sense of the success (or failure) of parliamentary gender quota campaigns? To answer the question, Kerryn Baker explores the workings of four campaigns in the region.
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Two-World Literature - Kazuo Ishiguro'S Early Novels

by Rebecca Suter

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 Aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the deployment of cultural stereotypes in the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. Aamir Mufti has described â€˜world literatureâ€™ as the legacy of an imperial system of cultural mapping from a unified perspective. Rebecca Suter views Ishiguro's fiction as an alternative to this paradigm.
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The New Port Moresby - Gender, Space, And Belonging In Urban Papua New Guinea

by Ceridwen Spark

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 Explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship, the book adds to an emerging literature on cities in the "Global South" as sites of oppression, but also resistance, aspiration, and activism.
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Jewels, Jewelry, And Other Shiny Things In The Buddhist Imaginary

by Andy Rotman, Casey Collins, Christoph Emmrich, Ellen Huang, Maria Heim, Nancy G. Lin, Richard K. Payne, Vanessa R. Sasson e Wendy Doniger

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 Following an introduction that relates the colourful story of the Emerald Buddha, this book explores the function of jewels as personal identifiers in Buddhist tradition; Buddhaghosa's commentary on the Jewel Sutta; the paradox of the Buddha's bejeweled status; and the connection in early Buddhism between jewels, magnificence, and virtue.
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Becoming Landowners - Entanglements Of Custom And Modernity In Papua New Guinea And Timor-Leste

by Brij V. Lal e Victoria C. Stead

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 Across Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, this book argues, in the sense that these processes of change compel forms of property relations, and that 'landowner' and 'custom landowner' become identities to be wielded against both state and capital.
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Myanmar'S Buddhist-Muslim Crisis - Rohingya, Arakanese, And Burmese Narratives Of Siege And Fear

by John Clifford Holt

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 Examines the reasons and rationalizations behind the violence occurring in Myanmar, especially the oppressive military campaigns waged against Rohingya Muslims by the army in 2016 and 2017. Over more than three years John Holt traveled around Myanmar engaging in sustained conversations with prominent and articulate participants and observers.
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Light Of Day

by Webb Hubbell

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Tanna Times - Islanders In The World

by Lamont Lindstrom

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 Introduces the vibrant living culture and fascinating history of Tanna, an island in Vanuatu, Melanesia, through the stories of a dozen interconnected Tanna Islanders. Tracing the past 250 years of island experiences that cross the globe, each of these distinctly extraordinary lives tells larger human narratives of cultural continuity and change.
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One Corner Of The Square - Essays On The Philosophy Of Roger T. Ames

by Sullivan Mason Adr

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 Taking note of the present global philosophical situation, this collection of essays critically engages the scholarship of Roger Ames, who for decades has had a central role in the evolution of comparative and nonwestern philosophy.
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Citizen Designs - City-Making And Democracy In Northeastern Thailand

by Eli Elinoff

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 What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designsaddresses this question by exploring the ways that democratic urban planning projects intersect with emerging political aspirations among squatters living in the Thai city of Khon Kaen.
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Moments Of Silence - The Unforgetting Of The October 6, 1976, Massacre In Bangkok

by Thongchai Winichakul

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 The massacre on October 6, 1976, in Bangkok was brutal, its savagery unprecedented in modern Thai history. Thai society still refuses to confront this dark page in its history. This book focuses on the silence that surrounds the massacre. Silence, it argues, is an inability to forget or remember - or to articulate a socially meaningful memory.
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Moments Of Silence - The Unforgetting Of The October 6, 1976, Massacre In Bangkok

by Thongchai Winichakul

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 The massacre on October 6, 1976, in Bangkok was brutal, its savagery unprecedented in modern Thai history. Thai society still refuses to confront this dark page in its history. This book focuses on the silence that surrounds the massacre. Silence, it argues, is an inability to forget or remember - or to articulate a socially meaningful memory.
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The New Port Moresby - Gender, Space, And Belonging In Urban Papua New Guinea

by Ceridwen Spark

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 Explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship, the book adds to an emerging literature on cities in the ""Global South"" as sites of oppression, but also resistance, aspiration, and activism.
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Community Music In Oceania - Many Voices, One Horizon

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 Makes a distinctive contribution to the field of community music through the experiences of music education, ethnomusicology, music therapy, and music performance of the volume editors and contributors. Covering a wide range of perspectives the essays raise common themes in terms of the pedagogies and practices used, pointing collectively toward one horizon of approach.
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The International Minimum - Creativity And Contradiction In Japanaes Global Engagement, 1933-1964

by Jessamyn R. Abel

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 A history of internationalism, imperialism, and the performance of diplomacy in Japan at a time when new global norms required a minimum level of international engagement. Jessamyn Abel illuminates deep and nuanced connections between modes of diplomacy across periods of aggressive imperial expansion and times of peace from the 1930s to 1960s.
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Being Political - Leadership And Democracy In The Pacific Islands

by Jack Corbett

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 Drawing on more than 110 interviews and other published sources, including autobiographies and biographies, Being Political provides a collective portrait of the Pacific regionâ€™s political elite. This is an insider account of political life in the Pacific as seen through the eyes of those who have done the job.

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