Pacific Realities: Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance
Edited by Laurent Dousset and Mélissa Nayral — Oxford: Berghahn ISBN-13: 978-1789200409 — 2018
Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of “glocalization”; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities. Consequently, new forms of resistance and resilience – the processes by which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement – emerge. Through case studies from across the Pacific which transcend the conventional “local-global” dichotomy, this volume aims to explore these complex and interwoven phenomena from a new perspective.Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of “glocalization”; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities. Consequently, new forms of resistance and resilience – the processes by which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement – emerge. Through case studies from across the Pacific which transcend the conventional “local-global” dichotomy, this volume aims to explore these complex and interwoven phenomena from a new perspective.
Contents
Introduction: Resistance and ResilienceLaurent Dousset and Mélissa Nayral
• 1 A Story in and on Signs 23 Making Resistance and Acquiescence Legible as Forms of ResilienceYasmine Musharbash
• 2 Global Models and Local Management of Land Ownership in Rapa (French Polynesia)Christian Ghasarian
• 3 Between Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance Fiji Islander Women Activists and the Ethno-Nationalist Political Crises in 2000Sina Emde
• 4 Resisting UN Ideals to Make Men and Women Equal in Politics: When a Humanist Concern Turns into Arithmetic in Ouvea (New Caledonia)Mélissa Nayral
• 5 Independence from Independence: History, Landownership and Politics in South Malekula, Vanuatu Laurent Dousset
• 6 The Reasonableness of Leaders and the Gaming of Mining Incomes in Papua New GuineaJohn Burton
Afterword: Values in Flux – Reflections on Resilience and Change in Melanesia Martha Macintyre