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Transnational Migrations - The Indian Diaspora (Paperback): William Safran, Ajaya Sahoo, Brij V. Lal Transnational Migrations - The Indian Diaspora (Paperback)
William Safran, Ajaya Sahoo, Brij V. Lal
R1,288 Discovery Miles 12 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book studies Indian diaspora, currenlty 20 million across the world, from various perspectives. It looks at the 'transnational' nature of the middle class worker. Other aspects include: post 9/11 challenges; ethnicity in USA; cultural identity versus national identity; gender issues amongst the diaspora communities. It argues that Indian middl

Transnational Migrations - The Indian Diaspora (Hardcover, New): William Safran, Ajaya Sahoo, Brij V. Lal Transnational Migrations - The Indian Diaspora (Hardcover, New)
William Safran, Ajaya Sahoo, Brij V. Lal
R4,125 Discovery Miles 41 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book studies Indian diaspora, currenlty 20 million across the world, from various perspectives. It looks at the 'transnational' nature of the middle class worker. Other aspects include: post 9/11 challenges; ethnicity in USA; cultural identity versus national identity; gender issues amongst the diaspora communities. It argues that Indian middle classes have the unique advantages of skills, mobility, cultural rootedness and ethics of hard-work.

Levelling Wind - Remembering Fiji (Paperback): Brij V. Lal Levelling Wind - Remembering Fiji (Paperback)
Brij V. Lal
R1,381 Discovery Miles 13 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pacific Women in Politics - Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands (Hardcover): Kerryn Baker Pacific Women in Politics - Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands (Hardcover)
Kerryn Baker; Series edited by Brij V. Lal, Jack Corbett
R1,965 Discovery Miles 19 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Women are significantly underrepresented in politics in the Pacific Islands, given that only one in twenty Pacific parliamentarians are female, compared to one in five globally. A common, but controversial, method of increasing the number of women in politics is the use of gender quotas, or measures designed to ensure a minimum level of women's representation. In those cases where quotas have been effective, they have managed to change the face of power in previously male-dominated political spheres. How do political actors in the Pacific islands region make sense of the success (or failure) of parliamentary gender quota campaigns? To answer the question, Kerryn Baker explores the workings of four campaigns in the region. In Samoa, the campaign culminated in a "safety net" quota to guarantee a minimum level of representation, set at five female members of Parliament. In Papua New Guinea, between 2007 and 2012 there were successive campaigns for nominated and reserved seats in parliament, without success, although the constitution was amended in 2011 to allow for the possibility of reserved seats for women. In post-conflict Bougainville, women campaigned for reserved seats during the constitution-making process and eventually won three reserved seats in the House of Representatives, as well as one reserved ministerial position. Finally, in the French Pacific territories of New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna, Baker finds that there were campaigns both for and against the implementation of the so-called "parity laws." Baker argues that the meanings of success in quota campaigns, and related notions of gender and representation, are interpreted by actors through drawing on different traditions, and renegotiating and redefining them according to their goals, pressures, and dilemmas. Broadening the definition of success thus is a key to an understanding of realities of quota campaigns. Pacific Women in Politics is a pathbreaking work that offers an original contribution to gender relations within the Pacific and to contemporary Pacific politics.

Political Life Writing in the Pacific - Reflections on Practice (Paperback): Jack Corbett, Brij V. Lal Political Life Writing in the Pacific - Reflections on Practice (Paperback)
Jack Corbett, Brij V. Lal
R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Turnings - Fiji Factions (Paperback): Brij V. Lal Turnings - Fiji Factions (Paperback)
Brij V. Lal
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chalo Jahaji - On a Journey through Indenture in Fiji (Paperback): Brij V. Lal Chalo Jahaji - On a Journey through Indenture in Fiji (Paperback)
Brij V. Lal
R1,591 R1,507 Discovery Miles 15 070 Save R84 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fiji Before the Storm - Elections and the Politics of Development (Paperback): Brij V. Lal Fiji Before the Storm - Elections and the Politics of Development (Paperback)
Brij V. Lal
R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Intersections - History, Memory, Discipline (Paperback): Brij V. Lal Intersections - History, Memory, Discipline (Paperback)
Brij V. Lal
R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Vision for Change - AD Patel and the Politics of Fiji (Paperback): Brij V. Lal A Vision for Change - AD Patel and the Politics of Fiji (Paperback)
Brij V. Lal
R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In the Eye of the Storm - Jai Ram Reddy and the Politics of Postcolonial Fiji (Paperback): Brij V. Lal In the Eye of the Storm - Jai Ram Reddy and the Politics of Postcolonial Fiji (Paperback)
Brij V. Lal
R1,749 R1,650 Discovery Miles 16 500 Save R99 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji - A Coup to End All Coups? (Paperback): Stewart Firth, Jon Fraenkel, Brij V. Lal The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji - A Coup to End All Coups? (Paperback)
Stewart Firth, Jon Fraenkel, Brij V. Lal
R1,645 R1,554 Discovery Miles 15 540 Save R91 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Coup - Reflection on the Political Crisis in Fiji (Paperback, 2nd edition): Brij V. Lal, Michael Pretes Coup - Reflection on the Political Crisis in Fiji (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Brij V. Lal, Michael Pretes
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Time Bomb Lies Buried - Fiji's Road to Independence, 1960-1970 (Paperback): Brij V. Lal A Time Bomb Lies Buried - Fiji's Road to Independence, 1960-1970 (Paperback)
Brij V. Lal
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Telling Pacific Lives - Prisms of Process (Paperback): Brij V. Lal, Vicki Luker Telling Pacific Lives - Prisms of Process (Paperback)
Brij V. Lal, Vicki Luker
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Islands of Turmoil - Elections and Politics in Fiji (Paperback): Brij V. Lal Islands of Turmoil - Elections and Politics in Fiji (Paperback)
Brij V. Lal
R813 Discovery Miles 8 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pacific Women in Politics - Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands (Paperback): Kerryn Baker Pacific Women in Politics - Gender Quota Campaigns in the Pacific Islands (Paperback)
Kerryn Baker; Series edited by Brij V. Lal, Jack Corbett
R919 Discovery Miles 9 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Women are significantly underrepresented in politics in the Pacific Islands, given that only one in twenty Pacific parliamentarians are female, compared to one in five globally. A common, but controversial, method of increasing the number of women in politics is the use of gender quotas, or measures designed to ensure a minimum level of women's representation. In those cases where quotas have been effective, they have managed to change the face of power in previously male-dominated political spheres. How do political actors in the Pacific islands region make sense of the success (or failure) of parliamentary gender quota campaigns? To answer the question, Kerryn Baker explores the workings of four campaigns in the region. In Samoa, the campaign culminated in a ""safety net"" quota to guarantee a minimum level of representation, set at five female members of Parliament. In Papua New Guinea, between 2007 and 2012 there were successive campaigns for nominated and reserved seats in parliament, without success, although the constitution was amended in 2011 to allow for the possibility of reserved seats for women. In post-conflict Bougainville, women campaigned for reserved seats during the constitution-making process and eventually won three reserved seats in the House of Representatives, as well as one reserved ministerial position. Finally, in the French Pacific territories of New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna, Baker finds that there were campaigns both for and against the implementation of the so-called ""parity laws."" Baker argues that the meanings of success in quota campaigns, and related notions of gender and representation, are interpreted by actors through drawing on different traditions, and renegotiating and redefining them according to their goals, pressures, and dilemmas. Broadening the definition of success thus is a key to an understanding of realities of quota campaigns. Pacific Women in Politics is a pathbreaking work that offers an original contribution to gender relations within the Pacific and to contemporary Pacific politics.

Becoming Landowners - Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste (Paperback): Victoria C. Stead,... Becoming Landowners - Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste (Paperback)
Victoria C. Stead, Brij V. Lal
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Across Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed by processes of modernization—globalization, the building of states and nations, practices and imaginaries of development, the legacies of colonialism, and the complexities of postcolonial encounters. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, Stead argues, both in the sense that these processes of change compel forms of property relations, and in the sense that "landowner" and "custom landowner" become identities to be wielded against the encroachment of both state and capital. In places where customary forms of land tenure have long been dominant, deeply intertwined with senses of self and relationships with others, land now becomes a crucible upon which social relations, power, and culture are reconfigured and reimagined. Employing a multi-sited ethnographic approach, Becoming Landowners explores these transformations to land and life as they unfold across two Melanesian countries. The chapters move between coasts and inland mountain ranges, between urban centers and rural villages, telling the stories of people and places who are always situated and particular but who also share powerful commonalities of experience. These include a subsistence-based community shaped by the legacies of colonialism and occupation in remote Timor-Leste, villagers in Papua New Guinea resisting a mining operation and the government agents supporting it, an urban East Timorese settlement resisting eviction by the nation-state its residents hoped would represent them in the post-independence era, and people and groups in both countries who are struggling for, with, and sometimes against the formal codification of their claims to land and place. In each of these instances, customary and modern forms of connection to land are propelled into complex and dynamic configurations, theorized here in an innovative way as entanglements of custom and modernity. Moving between multiple sites, scales, and forms of collectivity, Becoming Landowners reveals entanglements as spaces of deep ambivalence. Here, structures of power are destabilized in ways that can lend themselves to the diminishing of local autonomy in the face of the state and capital. At the same time, the destabilization of power also creates new possibilities for the reassertion of that autonomy, and of the customary forms of connection to land in which it is grounded.

Historical Dictionary of Fiji (Hardcover): Brij V. Lal Historical Dictionary of Fiji (Hardcover)
Brij V. Lal
R3,846 Discovery Miles 38 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first concise account of the history of the Fiji islands from the beginning of human settlement to the early years of the 21st century. Its primary focus is on the period since the advent of colonial rule in the late 19th century to the present, benefiting from the author's internationally acknowledged expertise as a scholar and writer on the Fijian past. Besides factual information, the book also offers a scholarly assessment of the people and events which have shaped Fiji's history. The Historical Dictionary of Fiji contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Fiji.

The New Port Moresby - Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea (Paperback): Ceridwen Spark The New Port Moresby - Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea (Paperback)
Ceridwen Spark; Series edited by Brij V. Lal, Jack Corbett
R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The New Port Moresby: Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship, the book adds to an emerging literature on cities in the ""Global South"" as sites of oppression, but also resistance, aspiration, and activism. Taking an intersectional feminist approach, the book draws on a decade of research conducted among the educated professional women of Port Moresby, offering unique insight into class transitions and the perspectives of this small but significant cohort. The New Port Moresby expands the scope of research and writing about gendered experiences in Port Moresby, moving beyond the idea that the city is an exclusively hostile place for women. Without discounting the problems of uneven development, the author argues that the city's new places offer women a degree of freedom and autonomy in a city predominantly characterized by fear and restriction. In doing so, it offers an ethnographically rich perspective on the interaction between the ""global"" and the ""local"" and what this might mean for feminism and the advancement of equity in the Pacific and beyond. The New Port Moresby will find an audience among anthropologists, particularly those interested in the urban Pacific, feminist geographers committed to expanding research to include cities in the Global South and development theorists interested in understanding the roles played by educated elites in less economically developed contexts. There have been few ethnographic monographs about Port Moresby and those that do exist have tended to marginalize or ignore gender. Yet as feminist geographers make clear, women and men are positioned differently in the world and their relationship to the places in which they live is also different. The book has no predecessors and stands alone in the Pacific as an account of this kind. As such, The New Port Moresby should be read by scholars and students of diverse disciplines interested in urbanization, gender, and the Pacific.

Stopover (Hardcover, New): Bruce Connew Stopover (Hardcover, New)
Bruce Connew; Bruce Connew, Brij V. Lal
R705 Discovery Miles 7 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Indians first arrived in Fiji as indentured laborers in 1879. Since the Rabuka coup d'etat in 1987, and three subsequent Fiji coups, Indian-Fijians have been emigrating from the country in earnest. ""Stopover"" is a haunting suite of photographs by New Zealand artist Bruce Connew from the tiny Indian-Fijian sugar cane settlement of Vatiyaka, taken during seven visits between June 2000 and November 2003, placing an extended family inside the story of migration. Connew's narrative captions and a story by Brij V. Lal take the reader to the heart of an embattled life.

Texts and Contexts - Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography (Hardcover): Doug Munro, Brij V. Lal Texts and Contexts - Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography (Hardcover)
Doug Munro, Brij V. Lal
R1,612 R1,462 Discovery Miles 14 620 Save R150 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Texts and Contexts is concerned with the development of Pacific Islands history as a specialization in its own right. Specifically, this volume examines the foundational texts that pioneered and consolidated the new subdiscipline and served as the building blocks and stepping-stone for further developments in the field. Thirty-five texts, all of which represent defining points in the development of Pacific Islands historiography, are examined. Much more than retrospective appraisals of the foundational texts, the individual chapters consider a text or complimentary texts within the context of the time of writing and gauge what ongoing influence they exerted. In some cases they suggest how a particular text has been superseded by subsequent work that breaks new conceptual ground in the ongoing process of revisionism.

Pacific Places, Pacific Histories (Hardcover, New): Brij V. Lal Pacific Places, Pacific Histories (Hardcover, New)
Brij V. Lal
R1,942 R1,749 Discovery Miles 17 490 Save R193 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Places matter. We are shaped by them, and in turn we shape them physically and imaginatively. They connect us to time and locality, perhaps even to life and death itself. This is a book about places and how our engagement with them-complex, changing, and varied-forms and transforms our understanding of them, of ourselves, of the human condition itself. Pacific Places, Pacific History brings together leading Pacific Islands studies scholars and invites them to talk about the places they have inhabited and to contemplate the meaning of that experience. The result is a veritable collage of reflections, distinct and different from each other but moving in their collective impact. Our engagement with places becomes daily more complicated with the transnational movement of peoples, ideas, technologies, and cultures. Global capitalism relentlessly alters established ethnographic assumptions about the meaning and importance of where we are and have been. The essays presented here are about letting go, learning and un-learning, transgressing physical, emotional, and intellectual boundaries. They are about personal quests, narrated in distinctive voices, raising particular concerns. Together they contribute significantly to our understanding of how small islands in a vast ocean enable us to see ourselves and the world around us.

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