Islands, Islanders and the World: The Colonial and Post-colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji - Couverture rigide

Bayliss-Smith, Tim; Bedford, Richard; Brookfield, Harold; Latham, Marc

 
9780521268776: Islands, Islanders and the World: The Colonial and Post-colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 052126877X ISBN 13 : 9780521268776
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Fiji is a country whose recent political instability can be directly traced to its distinctive colonial and post-colonial experience. For one particular region of Fiji the authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of this experience, at scales ranging from national and regional to island, village and household. Discussions in Third World geography, regional economics and development planning have been full of rhetoric about 'underdevelopment', 'centre-periphery relations' and 'dependency', but seldom are the actual processes which give rise to these phenomena examined in detail. In this book the authors explore in depth the interrelations between the island landscape, the cultural geography of the islanders and the intrusive values and opportunities of the market economy. Some important lessons are to be learnt from the gap between what might be predicted from abstract theories of development and what is actually happening in the real world of politicians, planners, farmers and fishermen.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Fiji is a country whose recent political instability can be directly traced to its distinctive colonial and post-colonial experience. For one particular region of Fiji the authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of this experience, at scales ranging from national and regional to island, village and household. Discussions in Third World geography, regional economics and development planning have been full of rhetoric about 'underdevelopment', 'centre-periphery relations' and 'dependency', but seldom are the actual processes which give rise to these phenomena examined in detail. In this book the authors explore in depth the interrelations between the island landscape, the cultural geography of the islanders and the intrusive values and opportunities of the market economy. Some important lessons are to be learnt from the gap between what might be predicted from abstract theories of development and what is actually happening in the real world of politicians, planners, farmers and fishermen.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052126877X
ISBN 13 
9780521268776
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
344
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Personne responsable
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9780521030083: Islands, Islanders & the World:Fiji: The Colonial and Post-colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521030080 ISBN 13 :  9780521030083
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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