Morning star rising : the politics of decolonization in West Papua / Camellia Webb-Gannon.
Morning star rising : the politics of decolonization in West Papua / Camellia Webb-Gannon.
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Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2021]
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G 2021/1083
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English
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xi, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Wish upon a star : Merdeka as West Papuans' decolonization hope -- Dreams : what does the future hold? -- Constellations : cultural performance as resistance at home and abroad -- Wrestling in the dark : three generations of factions -- Stars aligning : West Papua in the black Pacific and beyond.
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Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2021]
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Hawaii
Date Published
[2021]
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"That Indonesia's ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long night of Indonesian colonization. However, united in their pursuit of merdeka (freedom) in its many...
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Morning star rising : the politics of decolonization in West Papua / Camellia Webb-Gannon.
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Indigenous pacifics
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-207) and index.
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©2021
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G 2021/1083
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74VKazLPQX8b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKazLPQX8b
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ISBN
0824887875
9780824887872
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325.309951
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991024399815602626