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On the Edge of the Global - Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation (Hardcover)
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On the Edge of the Global - Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
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Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties.
Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of
stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday
life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of
"progress" and "development"--and the seemingly inevitable wealth
distribution that follows from them--have bypassed the society.
Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which
segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing
anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity
means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it
should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the
day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought
on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in
individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay
lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without
opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective
that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social
concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different
forms that modern uncertainties take.
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