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Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific
Hanlon, David; White, Geoffrey M.
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Description for Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific
Hardback. As new nations emerge in the Pacific Islands region, political change is everywhere marked by efforts to reconceptualize identities, histories, and futures. This volume brings together a diverse range of analysis and commentary that aim to challenge simplistic paradigms of "area study". Series: Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian & Pacific Perspectives. Num Pages: 456 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1M; 1QSP; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 705.
Long known for its vast geographic and cultural diversity, the Pacific Islands region today is witness to some of the most dramatic histories of decolonization and postcolonial development anywhere in the world. As new nations emerge_and struggle to emerge_political change is everywhere marked by efforts to reconceptualize identities, histories, and futures. In the midst of these transformations, this volume brings together a diverse range of analysis and commentary that challenge tired and simplistic paradigms of Oarea studyO and urge us to rethink the ways we imagine and represent the Pacific. The essays also challenge the conventions of scholarship itself, offering provocative reflections on the politics and ethics of research and writing across disciplines. The authors examine a range of subjects relevant to formations of cultural and regional identity, including the politics and poetics of history, of tradition, and of cultural expressions in literature, film, and the arts. In doing so, their discussions open up new ways of thinking about the Pacific as well as about relations between tradition and modernity, and about processes of Omodernization O and globalization everywhere.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Series
Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian & Pacific Perspectives
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742500440
SKU
V9780742500440
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99-15
About Hanlon, David; White, Geoffrey M.
David Hanlon is professor of history at the University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa. Geoffrey M. White is senior fellow at the East-West Center and professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i, where he also serves as editor of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs
Reviews for Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific
Voyaging through the Contemporary Pacific navigates the reader through nineteen defining articles published between 1989 and 1999 in the first ten volumes of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs. Cultural critics, historicans, and anthropologists will find the methodological and theoretical concerns addressed in this volume of essential global importance.
Oceana
In this one volume can be found many of the best essays printed over the last ten years in the Journal of the Contemporary Pacific. Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific is a collection of stimulating and provocative essays delving into avariety of political, historical, cultural and social concerns in the experiences of contemporary Pacific Islanders. These concerns relate to issues of identity, representation and decolonisation processes, and should be considered essential reading to anyone interested in contemporary social, political and cultural issues in the Pacific Islands...
Journal Of The Polynesian Society
In this one volume can be found many of the best essays printed over the last ten years in the Journal of the Contemporary Pacific. Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific is a collection of stimulating and provocative essays delving into a variety of political, historical, cultural and social concerns in the experiences of contemporary Pacific Islanders. These concerns relate to issues of identity, representation and decolonisation processes, and should be considered essential reading to anyone interested in contemporary social, political and cultural issues in the Pacific Islands.
Journal Of The Polynesian Society
Oceana
In this one volume can be found many of the best essays printed over the last ten years in the Journal of the Contemporary Pacific. Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific is a collection of stimulating and provocative essays delving into avariety of political, historical, cultural and social concerns in the experiences of contemporary Pacific Islanders. These concerns relate to issues of identity, representation and decolonisation processes, and should be considered essential reading to anyone interested in contemporary social, political and cultural issues in the Pacific Islands...
Journal Of The Polynesian Society
In this one volume can be found many of the best essays printed over the last ten years in the Journal of the Contemporary Pacific. Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific is a collection of stimulating and provocative essays delving into a variety of political, historical, cultural and social concerns in the experiences of contemporary Pacific Islanders. These concerns relate to issues of identity, representation and decolonisation processes, and should be considered essential reading to anyone interested in contemporary social, political and cultural issues in the Pacific Islands.
Journal Of The Polynesian Society