Tracey Banivanua Mar

Decolonisation and the Pacific

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Produktbeschreibung

This book charts the previously untold story of the mobility of Indigenous peoples across vast distances, vividly reshaping what is known about decolonisation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 407g
• ISBN-13: 9781108705783
• ISBN-10: 1108705782
• Artikelnr.: 54783369

Autorenporträt

Tracey Banivanua Mar is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Principal Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Victoria. She specialises in the interconnections linking histories of Indigenous peoples and colonialism in the Pacific and Pacific Rim nations of Australia and New Zealand. Her award-winning research, published in Violence and Colonial Dialogue (2007), explored the Australian Pacific labour trade, and was shortlisted for numerous prestigious prizes, including the New South Wales Premiers Prize in Australian History (2007) and the Australian Historical Society's W. H. Hancock Prize (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: sailing the winds of change: decolonisation and the Pacific
1. Borders: the colonisation of mobile worlds
2. Currents: the well springs of decolonisation
3. Churn: restlessness and world government between the wars
4. Saltwater: the separation of people and territory
5. Flight: territorial integrity and dependent decolonisation
6. Black: internalising decolonisation and networks of solidarity
Conclusion: procedural decolonisation and indigenous philosophies of un-colonising
Bibliography
Index.