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New perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific prehistory
‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neo…
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- 9781760460952
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- xx, 384p. : ill.
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- Terra australis 45
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- 959.01 NEW n
Framing the islands: power and diplomatic agency in Pacific regionalism
Since its origins in late eighteenth-century European thought, the idea of placing a regional frame around the Pacific islands has never been just an exercise in geographical mapping. This framing has always been a political exercise. Contending regional projects and visions have been part of a political struggle concerning how Pacific islanders should live their lives. Framing the Islands tell…
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- 9781760463151
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- xv, 399 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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- ANU Press Pacific Series
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- 327.2 FRY p
Political parties in the Pacific Islands
While political parties remain an indispensable institutional framework for representation and governance in a democracy, the democracies of many Pacific Islands nations are undermined by the weakness and inefficacy of their local political parties. Addressing the implications of the lack of established party systems across the Pacific, this collection seeks to illuminate the underlying assumpt…
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- 9781921313769
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- xiv, 229 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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- 324.291823 RIC p
New Pacific diplomacy
Since 2009 there has been a fundamental shift in the way that the Pacific Island states engage with regional and world politics. The region has experienced, what Kiribati President Anote Tong has aptly called, a ‘paradigm shift’ in ideas about how Pacific diplomacy should be organised, and on what principles it should operate. Many leaders have called for a heightened Pacific voice in globa…
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- 9781925022810
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- xx, 305 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
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- 327.2 FRY n
Culture and sustainable development in the Pacific
Sustainable development; Social life; Customs; Civilazation; Pacific area
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- 192094222X
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- xv, 227 p. ; 22 cm.
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- Pacific policy papers
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- 909.09823 HOO c
People and place: The West Coast of New Zealand's South Island in history and…
"This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut of…
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- 9781760463458
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- ix, 205p.: ill.
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- 993 RIC p
Migration and transnationalism: Pacific perspectives
edited by Helen Lee and Steve Tupai Francis.
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- 9781921536908 (pbk.)
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- xi, 230 p. : ill., charts ; 25 cm.
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Fish, fishing and community in North Korea and neighbours : vibrant matter(s)
This open access book explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations. With the ideological and environmental history of North Korea in mind, the book examines the complex interactions between local communities, fish themselves, wider ecosystems and the politics of Pyongyang through the lens of critical geography, fisheries statistics and management …
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- 9789811500428
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- xii, 202p. : ill.
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- 639.2095193 WIN f
Contested Terrain: reconceptualising security in the Pacific contested terrain
Contested Terrain provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive and innovative approach to critically analysing the multidimensional and contested nature of security narratives, justified by different ideological, political, cultural and economic rationales. This is important in a complex and ever-changing situation involving a dynamic interplay between local, regional and global factors. Security nar…
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- 9781760463199
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- viii, 295p.
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- 355.03305 RAT c
Transcending the culture: nature divide in culture heritage
While considerable research and on-ground project work focuses on the interface between Indigenous/local people and nature conservation in the Asia-Pacific region, the interface between these people and cultural heritage conservation has not received the same attention. This collection brings together papers on the current mechanisms in place in the region to conserve cultural heritage values. …
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- 9781922144058
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- xii, 242p.: ill.
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- 363.69091823 BRO t
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