Understanding Oceania : Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and Its Collaboration with the Australian National University.
Firth, Stewart.
Understanding Oceania : Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and Its Collaboration with the Australian National University. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (428 pages) - Pacific Series . - Pacific Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Contributors -- 1. Themes -- 2. A Commentary on the 50-Year History of the University of the South Pacific -- 3. The Road from Laucala Bay -- Part 1: Balancing Tradition and Modernity -- 4. Change in Land Use and Villages-Fiji: 1958-1983 -- 5. Matai Titles and Modern Corruption in Samoa: Costs, Expectations and Consequences for Families and Society -- 6. Making Room for Magic in Intellectual Property Policy -- Part 2: Politics and Political Economy -- 7. Postcolonial Political Institutions in the South Pacific Islands: A Survey -- 8. Neo-Liberalism and the Disciplining of Pacific Island States-the Dual Challenges of a Global Economic Creed and a Changed Geopolitical Order -- 9. Defending the Inheritance: The SDL and the 2006 Election -- Part 3: Reimagining -- 10. Re-Presenting Melanesia: Ignoble Savages and Melanesian Alter-Natives -- 11. Man versus Myth: The Life and Times of Ratu Sukuna -- 12. All Saints' Primary, Labasa -- Part 4: Rethinking Development -- 13. Development Assistance Challenges -- 14. Breaking Fiji's Coup Culture through Effective Rural Development -- 15. Urban Land in Solomon Islands: Powers of Exclusion and Counter‑Exclusion -- Part 5: Into the Future -- 16. The Ocean in Us -- 17. The 'New Pacific Diplomacy': An Introduction -- 18. Niu Mana, Sport, Media and the Australian Diaspora -- Afterword.
This book is inspired by the University of the South Pacific. Founded in 1968, USP has expanded the intellectual horizons of generations of students from its 12 member countries--Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
9781760462895
Oceania-Social conditions.
Electronic books.
HN930.7.A8 .U534 2019
306.0995
Understanding Oceania : Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and Its Collaboration with the Australian National University. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (428 pages) - Pacific Series . - Pacific Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Contributors -- 1. Themes -- 2. A Commentary on the 50-Year History of the University of the South Pacific -- 3. The Road from Laucala Bay -- Part 1: Balancing Tradition and Modernity -- 4. Change in Land Use and Villages-Fiji: 1958-1983 -- 5. Matai Titles and Modern Corruption in Samoa: Costs, Expectations and Consequences for Families and Society -- 6. Making Room for Magic in Intellectual Property Policy -- Part 2: Politics and Political Economy -- 7. Postcolonial Political Institutions in the South Pacific Islands: A Survey -- 8. Neo-Liberalism and the Disciplining of Pacific Island States-the Dual Challenges of a Global Economic Creed and a Changed Geopolitical Order -- 9. Defending the Inheritance: The SDL and the 2006 Election -- Part 3: Reimagining -- 10. Re-Presenting Melanesia: Ignoble Savages and Melanesian Alter-Natives -- 11. Man versus Myth: The Life and Times of Ratu Sukuna -- 12. All Saints' Primary, Labasa -- Part 4: Rethinking Development -- 13. Development Assistance Challenges -- 14. Breaking Fiji's Coup Culture through Effective Rural Development -- 15. Urban Land in Solomon Islands: Powers of Exclusion and Counter‑Exclusion -- Part 5: Into the Future -- 16. The Ocean in Us -- 17. The 'New Pacific Diplomacy': An Introduction -- 18. Niu Mana, Sport, Media and the Australian Diaspora -- Afterword.
This book is inspired by the University of the South Pacific. Founded in 1968, USP has expanded the intellectual horizons of generations of students from its 12 member countries--Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
9781760462895
Oceania-Social conditions.
Electronic books.
HN930.7.A8 .U534 2019
306.0995