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Situating Women

Author : Nicole George
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1922144150
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Situating Women written by Nicole George and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to the aim of advancing women’s status, their work has been buffeted by national political upheavals and changing global and regional directions in development policy-making. This book documents how women activists have understood and responded to these challenges. It is the first book to write women into Fiji’s postcolonial history, providing a detailed historical account of that country’s gender politics across four tumultuous decades. It is also the first to examine the ‘situated’ nature of gender advocacy in the Pacific Islands more broadly. It does this by analysing trends in activity, from women’s radical and provocative activism of the 1960s to a more self-evaluative and reflexive mood of engagement in later decades, showing how interplaying global and local factors can shape women’s understandings of gender justice and their pursuit of that goal.

Gender Violence & Human Rights

Author : Aletta Biersack
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760460710
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Gender Violence & Human Rights written by Aletta Biersack and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postcolonial states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu operate today in a global arena in which human rights are widely accepted. As ratifiers of UN treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, these Pacific Island countries have committed to promoting women’s and girls’ rights, including the right to a life free of violence. Yet local, national and regional gender values are not always consistent with the principles of gender equality and women’s rights that undergird these globalising conventions. This volume critically interrogates the relation between gender violence and human rights as these three countries and their communities and citizens engage with, appropriate, modify and at times resist human rights principles and their implications for gender violence. Grounded in extensive anthropological, historical and legal research, the volume should prove a crucial resource for the many scholars, policymakers and activists who are concerned about the urgent and ubiquitous problem of gender violence in the western Pacific. ‘This is an important and timely collection that is central to the major and contentious issues in the contemporary Pacific of gender violence and human rights. It builds upon existing literature … but the contributors to this volume interrogate the connection between these two areas deeply and more critically … This book should and must reach a broad audience.’ — Jacqui Leckie, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago ‘The volume addresses the tensions between human and cultural, individual and collective rights, as played out in the domain of gender … Gender is a perfect lens for exploring these tensions because cultural rights are often claimed in defence of gender oppression and because women often have imposed upon them the burden of representing cultural traditions in attire, comportment, restraint or putatively cultural conservatism. And Melanesia is a perfect place to consider these gendered issues because of the long history of ethnocentric representations of the region, because of the extent to which these are played out between states and local cultures and because of the efforts of the vibrant women’s movements in the region to develop locally workable responses to the problems of gender violence in these communities.’ — Christine Dureau, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, University of Auckland

Divine Hunger

Author : Peggy Reeves Sanday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521311144
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Divine Hunger written by Peggy Reeves Sanday and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-07-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to understanding the phenomenon of ritual cannibalism through a detailed examination of selected tribal societies demonstrates that the practice is closely linked to people's orientation to the world, and helps distinguish "cultural self."

This is Not a Grass Skirt

Author : Karen Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789088908132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book This is Not a Grass Skirt written by Karen Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on fibre skirts (liku) and associated tattooing (veiqia) worn by indigenous Fijian women in the nineteenth century, highlighting the link between clothing and the adorned human body and the ongoing relevance of museum collections and archives.

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

Author : Chris Bobel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811506140
Total Pages : 1041 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies written by Chris Bobel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?” The chapters—diverse in content, form and perspective—establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.

Disruptive Voices

Author : Michelle Fine
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472064656
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Disruptive Voices written by Michelle Fine and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative essays on the ways feminist approaches to research can unite research practice and social action

The Violence of Indenture in Fiji

Author : Vijay Naidu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Violence of Indenture in Fiji written by Vijay Naidu and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Body, Self, and Society

Author : Anne E. Becker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812290240
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Body, Self, and Society written by Anne E. Becker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and American society, arguing that the motivation of Americans to work on their bodies' shapes as a personal endeavor is permitted by their notion that the self is individuated and autonomous. On the other hand, because Fijians concern themselves with the cultivation of social relationships largely expressed through nurturing and food exchange, there is a vested interest in cultivating others' bodies rather than one's own.

Law for Pacific Women

Author : Patricia Imrana Jalal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Law for Pacific Women written by Patricia Imrana Jalal and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jalal has been able to collect the inputs of many individuals working within the legal systems of nine jurisdictions (all member states of the University of the South Pacific) in the region. This book represents an important collection of authorities and information in the region. The information is presented as simply as possible with an attempt to explain legal concepts and ideas in non-technical language. Although this is not an academic text and is not aimed at an academic audience, many will find it a useful point of reference for case examples and some legislative provisions. Its main objective, however, is to politicize the position of women in the Pacific. Ms Jalal's work is driven by her "anger at the injustice that is caused to women in the Pacific, because they are women" (Preface ix) and in her introductory chapter she argues that "Pacific Island feminism" will pave the way for equality for women in the region.

Broken Waves

Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824814182
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Broken Waves written by Brij V. Lal and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] magisterial history of twentieth-century Fiji.... The historical research is thorough and scrupulous, and the presentation is lucid. Lal brings together a wealth of information, much of it previously unavailable and the earlier available materials often reframed in thought-provoking ways.... Perhaps its greatest strength is that is presents the history of modern Fiji as very complicated and multifaceted.” —The Contemporary Pacific Pacific Islands Monograph Series No.11 Published in association with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i

State of Suffering

Author : Susanna Trnka
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801474989
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book State of Suffering written by Susanna Trnka and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the Fijian nationalist coup. The overthrow of the elected multiethnic party led to six months of nationalist aggression, much of which was directed toward Indo-Fijians. In State of Suffering, Trnka shows how Indo-Fijians' lives were overturned as waves of turmoil and destruction swept across Fiji. Describing the myriad social processes through which violence is articulated and ascribed meaning-including expressions of incredulity, circulation of rumors, narratives, and exchanges of laughter and jokes-Trnka reveals the ways in which the community engages in these practices as individuals experience, and try to understand, the consequences of the coup. She then considers different kinds of pain caused by political chaos and social turbulence, including pain resulting from bodily harm, shared terror, and the distress precipitated by economic crisis and social dislocation. Throughout this book, Trnka focuses on the collective social process through which violence is embodied, articulated, and silenced by those it targets. Her sensitive ethnography is a valuable addition to the global conversation about the impact of political violence on community life.

Fiji Masi

Author : Catherine Spicer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646437620
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Fiji Masi written by Catherine Spicer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book hopes to present the readers more than just an account of how Masi is made, though this will of course be a large component of the book. The book is divided into two sections. The first section sets Fiji in its geographical and historical context, at the same time showing the reader where Masi was traditionally made. This done, it then continues on to explain every aspect of the process used today to make Masi. The second sction of this book endeavours to describe the place of Masi in the world of the traditional Fijian. Finally, the authors look at Masi in the modern world of Fiji, exploring how many ancient rituals continue, and how others have been modified to cater to the demands of people who no longer live a village lifestyle, but are what one Fijian friend called "Fully Urbanised Natives""--Publisher's description.

The Challenge Of Local Feminisms

Author : Amrita Basu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429972555
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Challenge Of Local Feminisms written by Amrita Basu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must read for feminist activists, scholars, and policymakers. As this book amply demonstrates, women s movements around the world have much to learn from each other. The Challenge of Local Feminisms is the best place to start ... an inspiration and a challenge for us all. —Bella AbzugCochair, Women's Environment and Development Organization

What Happened to the Women?

Author : Ruth Rubio-Marín
Publisher : SSRC
ISBN 13 : 0979077206
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book What Happened to the Women? written by Ruth Rubio-Marín and published by SSRC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to women whose lives are affected by human rights violations? What happens to their testimony in court or in front of a truth commission? Women face a double marginalization under authoritarian regimes and during and after violent conflicts. Yet reparations programs are rarely designed to address the needs of women victims. What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations emphasizes the necessity of a gender dimension in reparations programs to improve their handling of female victims and their families. A joint project of the International Center for Transitional Justice and Canada's International Development Research Centre, What Happened to the Women? includes studies of gender and reparations policies in Guatemala, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Timor-Leste. Contributors represent a wide range of fields related to transitional justice and include international human rights lawyers, members of truth and reconciliation commissions, and NGO representatives.

Disturbing History

Author : Robert Nicole
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860985
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Disturbing History written by Robert Nicole and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disturbing History focuses on Fiji’s people and their agency in responding to and engaging the multifarious forms of authority and power that were manifest in the colony from 1874 to 1914. By concentrating on the lives of ordinary Fijians, the book presents alternate ways of reconstructing the island’s past. Couched in the traditions of social, subaltern, and people’s histories, the study is an excavation of a large mass of material that tells the often moving stories of lives that have largely been overlooked by historians. These challenge conventional historical accounts that tend to celebrate the nation, represent Fiji’s colonial experience as ordered and peaceful, or British tutelage as benevolent. In its contribution to postcolonial theory, Disturbing History reveals resistance as a constant but partial and untidy mix of other constituents such as collaboration, consent, appropriation, and opportunism, which together form the colonial landscape. In turn, colonialism in Fiji is shown as a force shaped in struggle, fractured and often fragile, with a presence and application in the daily lives of people that was often chaotic, imperfect, and susceptible to subversion. The book divides the period of study into two broad categories: organized resistance and everyday forms of resistance. The first examines the Colo War (1876), the Tuka Movement (1878–1891), the Seaqaqa War (1894), the Movement for Federation with New Zealand (1901–1903), the Viti Kabani Movement (1913–1917), and the various organized labor protests. The second half of the book addresses resistance manifested in the villages and plantations, including tax and land boycotts, violence and retributive justice, avoidance protest, petitioning, and women’s resistance. In their entirety these forms reveal a complex web of relationships between powerful and subordinate groups and among subordinate groups themselves. The author concludes that resistance cannot be framed as a totality but as a multilayered and multidimensional reality. In the wake of Fiji’s present volatile climate, this book will aid readers in understanding the continuities and disjunctures in Fiji’s interethnic and intraethnic relations.

Fiji

Author : David Stanley
Publisher : David Stanley
ISBN 13 : 9781566913362
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Fiji written by David Stanley and published by David Stanley. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Fiji handbook provides a thought-provoking introduction to Fiji's turbulent history, diverse population, and cultural riches. Travelers gain from seasoned traveler Stanley's extensive descriptions and evaluations of Fiji's lodgings, from luxury resorts to simple hotels on the beach. His comprehensive reporting of outdoor recreation makes it simple to locate the perfect activities, such as scuba diving, snorkeling, surfing, sailing, kayaking, hiking, camping, and golf.

Tears in Paradise

Author : Rajendra Prasad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473114565
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Tears in Paradise written by Rajendra Prasad and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised Edition. TEARS IN PARADISE, extensively researched and eloquently written, is the history of our forefathers who were brought under the infamous indentured labour system to Fiji by the British Colonial authorities from 1879 to 1916. The saga of these young, mostly illiterate, simple rural folks, lured by false promises of an ever-elusive 'Paradise', needs to be read and remembered. The author has done a remarkable task of compiling the story of this Indian Diaspora, people defenceless under an alien and systematically inhumane system, yet preserving their culture while creating the wealth and beauty of the land they made their home.