Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific:Publisher-ccebook-Valuable English Books

Taku Akatauira =: My dawning star : poems

Author: K Kauraka
Publisher: Mana Publications, South Pacific Creative Arts Society, Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific
Keywords: poems, star, dawning, akatauira, taku
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 1999
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ISBN-10: 9820201527
ISBN-13: 9789820201521

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Melanesian politics: Stael blong Vanuatu

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Publisher: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury and Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific
Keywords: vanuatu, blong, stael, politics, melanesian
Number of Pages: 499
Published: 1995
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ISBN-10: 0958330042
ISBN-13: 9780958330046

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New Politics in the South Pacific

Author: various
Publisher: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific in association with the Pacific Islands Political Studies Association
Keywords: pacific, south, politics, new
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 1994-12-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 9820201152
ISBN-13: 9789820201156

This book focuses on the newer forces that are reshaping the political scene within the Pacific Islands. It examines the evolving impact of women in politics, of NGOs, of electronic media, of sovereignty movements on the one hand and, on the other, the search for forms of political and constitutional association between small countries and large metropolitan powers that yield both the dignity of independence and the security and diversity of belonging to large systems. Written almost entirely by Pacific Islanders - many of them people active in the political process - this and a pa

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Nation and Destination Creating Cook Islands Identity

Author: Jeffrey Sissons
Publisher: Institute of Pacific Studies and the University of the South Pacific Centre in the Cook Islands
Keywords: islands, identity, cook, creating, destination, nation
Number of Pages: 139
Published: 1999-10-10
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ISBN-10: 982020142X
ISBN-13: 9789820201422

Nationalists everywhere call for the sacrifice of hearts, minds and bodies to apparently greater cause than the well-being of individuals and their local communities. What makes the Cook Islands so fascinating is the unusually close relationship between nationalists and the tourist industry. In this engaging work, Jeffrey Sissons draws on interviews with many prominent Cook Islanders and written records to describe the creation of a succession of different Cook Islands identities over the past thirty years. Workers in a young, progressive nation have, more recently, come to see themselves a