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  • Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific

    Edición de Mary Patterson, Martha Macintyre ...
    Series series Pacific Studies series
    Fast money schemes in Papua New Guinea, collectivities in rural Solomon Islands, gambling in the Cook Islands, and the Vanuatu tax haven—all feature in the interface between Pacific and global economies. Since the 1970s, Melanesian countries and their peoples have been beguiled by the prospect of economic development that would enable them to participate in a world market economic system. Access ... Leer más

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  • Women Miners in Developing Countries

    Pit Women and Others

    Series series Voices in Development Management
    Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed women in valuable and productive roles. Yet, pit life continues to be represented as a masculine world of work, legitimizing men as the only mineworkers and large, mechanized, and capitalized operations as the only form of mining. Bringing together a range of case studies of women miners from past and present in Asia, the Pacific ... Leer más

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  • Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific

    Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific focuses on the plasticity and contingent nature of Pacific Island masculinities over the course of colonial and postcolonial histories. The several case histories concern the use of sports to recuperate but also refashion past masculinities in the name of contemporary masculine pride; the effects of market participation on younger males; how urbanisation and ... Leer más

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  • Human Rights and Gender Politics

    Asia-Pacific Perspectives

    Series series Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
    In recent years, the slogan "women's rights are human rights" has become a central claim of the of the global women's movement. Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives examines the critical issues raised by this embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists worldwide.This volume challenges the conventional, ungendered and male-centred analysis of the ... Leer más

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  • Home and Native Land

    Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada

    Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light–shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain.The book’s articles, by some of the foremost critical thinkers and activists on issues of difference, diversity, and Canadian policy, challenge sedimented thinking on the subject of multiculturalism. Not merely “another ... Leer más

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  • Order and Security in Southeast Asia

    Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer

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  • Exalted Subjects

    Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada

    Questions of national identity, indigenous rights, citizenship, and migration have acquired unprecedented relevance in this age of globalization. In Exalted Subjects, noted feminist scholar Sunera Thobani examines the meanings and complexities of these questions in a Canadian context. Based in the theoretical traditions of political economy and cultural / post-colonial studies, this book examines ... Leer más

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  • Ethnicity

    de Steve Fenton ...
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    In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new published work and recent social and historical changes. Discussing an extended range of theorists and illustrations from around the world, Fenton explores and clarifies the core meanings and the shifting ground of this contested concept. More space is given to ideas of ... Leer más

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  • Key Concepts in Political Geography

    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
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