Pacific Realities: Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance

Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of "glocalization"; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specif...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2018]
Series:Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists 6
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Summary:Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of "glocalization"; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities. Consequently, new forms of resistance and resilience - the processes by which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement - emerge. Through case studies from across the Pacific which transcend the conventional "local-global" dichotomy, this volume aims to explore these complex and interwoven phenomena from a new perspective
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (180 Seiten)
ISBN:9781789200416
DOI:10.1515/9781789200416

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