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The Millennium Declaration was adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly in 2000 and explicit targets were set to eradicate
key problems in human development by 2015. This collection focuses
specifically on the goals relating to gender issues that are
problematic for women. The most relevant and contentious is that of
promoting gender equality and empowering women. The book provides
an overview of this and investigates literature that considers how
gender is central to achieving the other goals. The contributors
distinctively consider gender in the context of human security (or
insecurity); the reduction and elimination of conflict would seem
to be central to achieving targets. One of the major themes of this
collection is whether gender insecurity has been exacerbated in an
increasingly insecure world. The book considers not only military
and civilian conflict in the contemporary era but also security in
the broader sense of human development, such as environmental,
reproductive and economic security.
In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which
focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and
'settlers' or 'sojourners', this book is concerned with migrant
aspects of this phenomenon - whether migrant-migrant or
migrant-host encounters - bringing together studies from a variety
of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their
resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised
thematically into sections focusing on 'imperial encounters' of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 'identities' in the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries, and 'contemporary citizenship' and the
ways in which this is complicated by mobility and cross-cultural
encounters, the volume presents studies of New Zealand, Singapore,
Australia, Vanuatu, Mauritius and China to highlight key themes of
mobility, intimacies, ethnicity and 'race', heritage and diaspora,
through rich evidence such as photographs, census data, the arts
and interviews. Demonstrating the importance of multidisciplinary
ways of looking at migrant cross-cultural encounters through
blending historical and social science methodologies from a range
of disciplinary backgrounds, Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in
Asia and the Pacific will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists,
cultural geographers and historians with interests in migration,
mobility and cross-cultural encounters.
The Millennium Declaration was adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly in 2000 and explicit targets were set to eradicate
key problems in human development by 2015. This collection focuses
specifically on the goals relating to gender issues that are
problematic for women. The most relevant and contentious is that of
promoting gender equality and empowering women. The book provides
an overview of this and investigates literature that considers how
gender is central to achieving the other goals. The contributors
distinctively consider gender in the context of human security (or
insecurity); the reduction and elimination of conflict would seem
to be central to achieving targets. One of the major themes of this
collection is whether gender insecurity has been exacerbated in an
increasingly insecure world. The book considers not only military
and civilian conflict in the contemporary era but also security in
the broader sense of human development, such as environmental,
reproductive and economic security.
In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which
focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and
'settlers' or 'sojourners', this book is concerned with migrant
aspects of this phenomenon - whether migrant-migrant or
migrant-host encounters - bringing together studies from a variety
of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their
resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised
thematically into sections focusing on 'imperial encounters' of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 'identities' in the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries, and 'contemporary citizenship' and the
ways in which this is complicated by mobility and cross-cultural
encounters, the volume presents studies of New Zealand, Singapore,
Australia, Vanuatu, Mauritius and China to highlight key themes of
mobility, intimacies, ethnicity and 'race', heritage and diaspora,
through rich evidence such as photographs, census data, the arts
and interviews. Demonstrating the importance of multidisciplinary
ways of looking at migrant cross-cultural encounters through
blending historical and social science methodologies from a range
of disciplinary backgrounds, Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in
Asia and the Pacific will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists,
cultural geographers and historians with interests in migration,
mobility and cross-cultural encounters.
Despite the mythology of benign race relations, Aotearoa New
Zealand has experienced a very long history of underlying prejudice
and racism. Little has been written about the experiences of Indian
migrants, either historically or today, and most writing has
focussed on celebration and integration. Invisible speaks of
survival and the real impacts racism has on the lives of Indian New
Zealanders. It uncovers a story of exclusion that has rendered
Kiwi-Indians invisible in the historical narratives of the nation.
Over the course of World War II, two million American military
personnel occupied bases throughout the South Pacific, leaving
behind a human legacy of at least 4,000 children born to indigenous
mothers. Based on interviews conducted with many of these
American-indigenous children and several of the surviving mothers,
Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific explores the intimate
relationships that existed between untold numbers of U.S.
servicemen and indigenous women during the war and considers the
fate of their mixed-race children. These relationships developed in
the major U.S. bases of the South Pacific Command, from Bora Bora
in the east across to Solomon Islands in the west, and from the
Gilbert Islands in the north to New Zealand, in the southernmost
region of the Pacific. The American military command carefully
managed interpersonal encounters between the sexes, applying
race-based U.S. immigration law on Pacific peoples to prevent
marriage "across the color line." For indigenous women and their
American servicemen sweethearts, legal marriage was impossible;
giving rise to a generation of fatherless children, most of whom
grew up wanting to know more about their American lineage.
Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific traces these children’s
stories of loss, emotion, longing, and identity—and of lives
lived in the shadow of global war. Each chapter discusses the
context of the particular island societies and shows how this often
determined the ways intimate relationships developed and were
accommodated during the war years and beyond. Oral histories reveal
what the records of colonial governments and the military have
largely ignored, providing a perspective on the effects of the U.S.
occupation that until now has been disregarded by Pacific war
historians. The richness of this book will appeal to those
interested the Pacific, World War II, as well as intimacy, family,
race relations, colonialism, identity, and the legal structures of
U.S. immigration.
Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand
presents thought-provoking new research on New Zealand’s
fastest-growing demographic: the geographically, nationally, and
historically diverse Asian communities. This collection examines
the unresolved tensions between a dynamic biculturalism and the
recognition of other ethnic minorities by looking at such questions
as What kind of multicultural framework best suits New Zealand’s
rapidly expanding ethnic diversity? Can the Treaty of Waitangi,
initially set up to accommodate British settlers and to recognize
the tangata whenua, serve as the basis for New Zealand’s
immigration policy in the new millennium? And Can all citizens
embrace multiculturalism? Multiculturalism and Asian-ness are
addressed together for the first time in this articulate addition
to the ongoing debate about the population diversity of Aotearoa
New Zealand.
In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of
silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It
offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific
Islands' most enduring psychiatric institution-St Giles Psychiatric
Hospital-established as Fiji's Public Lunatic Asylum in 1884. Her
nuanced study reveals a microcosm of Fiji's indigenous, migrant,
and colonial communities and examines how individuals and
communities lived with the label of madness in an ethnically
complex island society. Tracking longitudinal change from the 1880s
to the present in the construction and treatment of mental disorder
in Fiji, the book emphasizes the colonization of madness across and
within the divides of culture, ethnicity, religion, gender,
economics, and power. Colonization of madness in Fiji was forged by
the entanglement of colonial institutions and cultures that
reflected tensions and prejudices within homes, villages,
workplaces, and churches. Mental despair was equally an outcome of
the destruction and displacement wrought by migration and
colonialism. Madness was further cast within the wider world of
colonial psychiatry, Western biomedicine, and asylum building. One
of the chapters explores medical discourse and diagnoses within
colonial worlds and practices. The "community within" the asylum is
a feature in Leckie's study, with attention to patient agency to
show how those labeled insane resisted diagnoses of their minds,
confinement, and constraints-ranging from straitjackets to electric
shock treatments to drug therapies. She argues that madness in
colonial Fiji reflects dynamics between the asylum and the
community, and that "reading" asylum archives sheds new light on
race/ethnicity, gender, and power in colonial Fiji. Exploring the
meaning of madness in Fiji, the author does not shy away from
asking controversial questions about how Pacific cultures define
normality and abnormality and also how communities respond.
Carefully researched and clearly written, Colonizing Madness offers
an engaging narrative, a superb example of an intersectional
history with a broad appeal to understanding global developments in
mental health. Her theses address the contradictions of current
efforts to discard the asylum model and to make mental health a
reality for all in postcolonial societies.
In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of
silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It
offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific
Islands' most enduring psychiatric institution-St Giles Psychiatric
Hospital-established as Fiji's Public Lunatic Asylum in 1884. Her
nuanced study reveals a microcosm of Fiji's indigenous, migrant,
and colonial communities and examines how individuals and
communities lived with the label of madness in an ethnically
complex island society. Tracking longitudinal change from the 1880s
to the present in the construction and treatment of mental disorder
in Fiji, the book emphasizes the colonization of madness across and
within the divides of culture, ethnicity, religion, gender,
economics, and power. Colonization of madness in Fiji was forged by
the entanglement of colonial institutions and cultures that
reflected tensions and prejudices within homes, villages,
workplaces, and churches. Mental despair was equally an outcome of
the destruction and displacement wrought by migration and
colonialism. Madness was further cast within the wider world of
colonial psychiatry, Western biomedicine, and asylum building. One
of the chapters explores medical discourse and diagnoses within
colonial worlds and practices. The "community within" the asylum is
a feature in Leckie's study, with attention to patient agency to
show how those labeled insane resisted diagnoses of their minds,
confinement, and constraints-ranging from straitjackets to electric
shock treatments to drug therapies. She argues that madness in
colonial Fiji reflects dynamics between the asylum and the
community, and that "reading" asylum archives sheds new light on
race/ethnicity, gender, and power in colonial Fiji. Exploring the
meaning of madness in Fiji, the author does not shy away from
asking controversial questions about how Pacific cultures define
normality and abnormality and also how communities respond.
Carefully researched and clearly written, Colonizing Madness offers
an engaging narrative, a superb example of an intersectional
history with a broad appeal to understanding global developments in
mental health. Her theses address the contradictions of current
efforts to discard the asylum model and to make mental health a
reality for all in postcolonial societies.
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