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Author : Donald R. Shuster,Peter Larmour,Karin von Strokirch
Publisher : National Centre for Development Studies Research S Acific St
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015041792758
Author : Jack Corbett
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780824841027
Politicians everywhere tend to attract cynicism and inspire disillusionment. They are supposed to epitomize the promise of democratic government and yet invariably find themselves cast as the enemy of every virtue that system seeks to uphold. In the Pacific, "politician" has become a byword for corruption, graft, and misconduct. This was not always the case—the independence generation is still remembered as strong leaders—but today's leaders are commonly associated with malaise and despair. Once heroes of self-determination, politicians are now the targets of donor attempts to institute "good governance," while Fiji's 2006 coup was partly justified on the grounds that they needed "cleaning up." But who are these much-maligned figures? How did they come to arrive in politics? What is it like to be a politician? Why do they enter, stay, and leave? Drawing on more than 110 interviews and other published sources, including autobiographies and biographies, Being Political provides a collective portrait of the region's political elite. This is an insider account of political life in the Pacific as seen through the eyes of those who have done the job. We learn that politics is a messy, unpredictable, and, at times, dirty business that nonetheless inspires service and sacrifice. We come to understand how being a politician has changed since independence and consider what this means for how we think about issues of corruption and misconduct. We find that politics is deeply embedded in the lives of individuals, families, and communities; an account that belies the common characterization of democracy in the Pacific as a "façade" or "foreign flower." Ultimately, this is a sympathetic counter-narrative to the populist critique. We come to know politicians as people with hopes and fears, pains and pleasures, vices and virtues. A reminder that politicians are human—neither saints nor sinners—is timely given the wave of cynicism and disaffection. As such, this book is a must read for all those who believe in the promise of representative government.
Author : Jack Corbett (Political scientist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0824869427
Drawing on more than 110 interviews and other published sources, including autobiographies and biographies, Being Political provides a collective portrait of the Pacific region's political elite. This is an insider account of political life in the Pacific as seen through the eyes of those who have done the job.
Author : Jeremy Dorovolomo,Govinda Ishwar Lingam
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811564833
This book explores a range of educational issues in the Pacific Islands, from school leadership in various contexts to the importance of forging cordial school and community partnerships. By presenting perspectives from a wide range of stakeholders, including community leaders, teachers, parents and students, it adds to the ongoing dialogue on educational issues in the Pacific Islands. Moreover, it promotes the forging of healthy school ecosystems that value equality, diversity, community engagement, fruitful citizenship, proactive school leadership, and valuable student learning, to drive an educated Pacific Islands population into the future.
Author : Ian Johnstone,Michael Powles
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781775500605
From 1960 to 1990, islands across the Pacific gained independence or self-government. In the years following this, Ian Johnstone and Michael Powles interviewed the Pacific people in key leadership positions in the lead-up to and achievement of independence, many of whom became well-known in the Pacific and more widely. This book presents a nation-by-nation history of this change from being colonial subjects to citizens of Pacific nations from the point of view of the leaders involved. Accompanied by maps, photographs and background information about the Pacific nations, the book explores the leaders� views on independence and the process of gaining it. The accompanying CD contains excerpts from the interviews.
Author : R. Feinberg,K. A. Watson-Gegeo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000323559
An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.
Author : Kabini Sanga,Keith Douglas Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Leadership
ISBN : UOM:39015077670092
Author : Narsamma Lingam,Govinda Ishwar Lingam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9819949882
This book provides detailed insights on the training and development for Pacific Island school leaders. It draws extensively on original empirical research that explores school leaders’ perceptions of how leadership and management training impacted their professional practices, and how these practices in turn impacted the dynamics of school operations. This book addresses a critical need to understand how to support leadership development for all Pacific schools, but especially in schools that are faced with the increasing challenges of learning and teaching conditions. In small island developing states in the Pacific region, school leaders face a myriad of challenges due to limited human and material resources, and a fragile economic base. Written by Pacific Islander authors, this book provides insights from different countries in the Pacific Islands. It shows how contextual challenges can exert enormous pressure on school leaders who are leading and managing schools without any leadership preparation. Given the importance of effective leadership practices and its impact on student learning outcomes, this book aims to be a source of reference for practitioners and educational authorities who have a vested interest in the provision of quality education in the Pacific region and beyond.
Author : Narsamma Lingam,Govinda Ishwar Lingam
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789819949892
This book provides detailed insights on the training and development for Pacific Island school leaders. It draws extensively on original empirical research that explores school leaders’ perceptions of how leadership and management training impacted their professional practices, and how these practices in turn impacted the dynamics of school operations. This book addresses a critical need to understand how to support leadership development for all Pacific schools, but especially in schools that are faced with the increasing challenges of learning and teaching conditions. In small island developing states in the Pacific region, school leaders face a myriad of challenges due to limited human and material resources, and a fragile economic base. Written by Pacific Islander authors, this book provides insights from different countries in the Pacific Islands. It shows how contextual challenges can exert enormous pressure on school leaders who are leading and managing schools without any leadership preparation. Given the importance of effective leadership practices and its impact on student learning outcomes, this book aims to be a source of reference for practitioners and educational authorities who have a vested interest in the provision of quality education in the Pacific region and beyond.
Author : Brij V. Lal,Kate Fortune
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 082482265X
An encyclopaedia of information on major aspects of Pacific life, including the physical environment, peoples, history, politics, economy, society and culture. The CD-ROM contains hyperlinks between section titles and sections, a library of all the maps in the encyclopaedia, and a photo library.
Author : Raeburn Lange
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000116397195
"Presented in narrative form and moving across the Pacific from east to west, the history follows the chronological movement of Christianity across Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia". ... "The author explores the extent to which the role of minister in this almost universally Christian region is rooted in traditional Pacific culture and society".--BOOKJACKET.
Author : Graham Hassall
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789736151
This book is a comparative study of government and public policy in the twenty small states of the Pacific Islands, examining the often tense societal interactions over competing conceptions of public-sector institutions and authority, rule-making, and policy processes.
Author : Geoffrey Miles White,Lamont Lindstrom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804728496
Explores the relationship between traditional leadership and new forms of government in 13 Pacific societies. In some, traditional perquisites and political authority have overlapped so that the state is a contemporary form of chiefdom; in others chiefs operate as a mechanism of local accommodation to centralized state authority, facilitating state operations in the local community; in still others, local chiefs have risen up against central authority and led their communities in opposition to the state and depredations. The studies illuminate processes of social change. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Greg Fry,Sandra Tarte
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781925022827
Since 2009 there has been a fundamental shift in the way that the Pacific Island states engage with regional and world politics. The region has experienced, what Kiribati President Anote Tong has aptly called, a ‘paradigm shift’ in ideas about how Pacific diplomacy should be organised, and on what principles it should operate. Many leaders have called for a heightened Pacific voice in global affairs and a new commitment to establishing Pacific Island control of this diplomatic process. This change in thinking has been expressed in the establishment of new channels and arenas for Pacific diplomacy at the regional and global levels and new ways of connecting the two levels through active use of intermediate diplomatic associations. The New Pacific Diplomacy brings together a range of analyses and perspectives on these dramatic new developments in Pacific diplomacy at sub-regional, regional and global levels, and in the key sectors of global negotiation for Pacific states – fisheries, climate change, decolonisation, and trade.
Author : Graeme Smith,Terence Wesley-Smith
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781760464172
In this collection, 17 leading scholars based in Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and China analyse key dimensions of the changing relationship between China and the Pacific Islands and explore the strategic, economic and diplomatic implications for regional actors. The China Alternative includes chapters on growing great power competition in the region, as well as the response to China’s rise by the US and its Western allies and the island countries themselves. Other chapters examine key dimensions of China’s Pacific engagement, including Beijing’s programs of aid and diplomacy, as well as the massive investments of the Belt and Road Initiative. The impact of China’s rivalry for recognition with Taiwan is examined, and several chapters analyse Chinese communities in the Pacific, and their relationships with local societies. The China Alternative provides ample material for informed judgements about the ability of island leaders to maintain their agency in the changing regional order, as well as other issues of significance to the peoples of the region. ‘China’s “discovery” of the diverse Pacific islands, intriguingly resonant of the era of European explorers, is impacting on this too-long-overlooked region through multiple currents that this important book guides us through.’ —Rowan Callick, Griffith University ‘The China Alternative is a must-read for all students and practitioners interested in understanding the new geopolitics of the Pacific. It assembles a stellar cast of Pacific scholars to deeply explore the impact of the changing role of China on the Pacific islands region. Significantly, it also puts the Pacific island states at the centre of this analysis by questioning the collective agency they might have in this rapidly evolving strategic context.’ —Greg Fry, The Australian National University