Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire (Critical Perspectives on Empire)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 2/21/2019
EAN 9781108705783, ISBN10: 1108705782
Paperback, 278 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
This book charts the previously untold story of decolonisation in the oceanic world of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, presenting it both as an indigenous and an international phenomenon. Tracey Banivanua Mar reveals how the inherent limits of decolonisation were laid bare by the historical peculiarities of colonialism in the region, and demonstrates the way imperial powers conceived of decolonisation as a new form of imperialism. She shows how Indigenous peoples responded to these limits by developing rich intellectual, political and cultural networks transcending colonial and national borders, with localised traditions of protest and dialogue connected to the global ferment of the twentieth century. The individual stories told here shed new light on the forces that shaped twentieth-century global history, and reconfigure the history of decolonisation, presenting it not as an historic event, but as a fragile, contingent and ongoing process continuing well into the postcolonial era.
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.