Remaking Micronesia: Discourses Over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944-1982
David L. Hanlon
The Carolina, Mariana and Marshall Islands have experienced world war, atomic weapons testing and varying brands of colonialism in the 20th century. Following the seizure of the islands from Japan, agencies of the US government sought to better possess and control the area through a series of developmental initiatives. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this text goes beyond the liberal discourse surrounding modernity to examine what economic development actually entailed. It explores in ethnographic terms how different groups of island people responded to development programmes in multiple, complex, layered and sometimes conflicting ways that reflected their own historical experiences and cultural understandings.
Anno:
1998
Casa editrice:
University of Hawaii Press
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
305
ISBN 10:
0824818946
ISBN 13:
9780824818944
File:
PDF, 6.17 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1998
Amazon 
Barnes & Noble 
Bookshop.org 
Converti i file
Più risultati di ricerca
Altri vantaggi 
Termini più frequenti
Liste di libri correlati
