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Remaking Micronesia: Discourses Over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944-1982

By David L. Hanlon

Book information

Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0824818946, 9780824818944
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6469773 bytes)
Pages
305\323
Time added
2015-08-13 21:54:36

Description

The Carolina, Mariana and Marshall Islands have experienced world war, atomic weapons testing and varying brands of colonialism in the 20th century. Following the seizure of the islands from Japan, agencies of the US government sought to better possess and control the area through a series of developmental initiatives. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this text goes beyond the liberal discourse surrounding modernity to examine what economic development actually entailed. It explores in ethnographic terms how different groups of island people responded to development programmes in multiple, complex, layered and sometimes conflicting ways that reflected their own historical experiences and cultural understandings.

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