Decolonisation and the Pacific - Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire

This book charts the previously untold story of the mobility of Indigenous peoples across vast distances, vividly reshaping what is known about decolonisation.

List of contents

Introduction: sailing the winds of change: decolonisation and the Pacific; 1. Borders: the colonisation of mobile worlds; 2. Currents: the well springs of decolonisation; 3. Churn: restlessness and world government between the wars; 4. Saltwater: the separation of people and territory; 5. Flight: territorial integrity and dependent decolonisation; 6. Black: internalising decolonisation and networks of solidarity; Conclusion: procedural decolonisation and indigenous philosophies of un-colonising; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Tracey Banivanua Mar is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Principal Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Victoria. She specialises in the interconnections linking histories of Indigenous peoples and colonialism in the Pacific and Pacific Rim nations of Australia and New Zealand. Her award-winning research, published in Violence and Colonial Dialogue (2007), explored the Australian Pacific labour trade, and was shortlisted for numerous prestigious prizes, including the New South Wales Premiers Prize in Australian History (2007) and the Australian Historical Society's W. H. Hancock Prize (2008).

Summary

An account charting the winds of decolonisation as they blew into the oceanic world of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. Tracey Banivanua Mar examines how Indigenous peoples responded to the overlooked limits of decolonisation in the region, shedding new light on the shaping forces of twentieth-century global history.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Tracey (La Trobe University Banivanua Mar, Tracey Banivanua Mar, Tracey (La Trobe University Banivanua Mar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108705783
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70578-3
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Critical Perspectives on Empire; Critical Perspectives on Empir
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, HISTORY / Oceania, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Archaeology, Australasian & Pacific history, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history, History and Archaeology, Australasian and Pacific history