Statebuilding and State Formation in the Western Pacific

Solomon Islands in Transition?

Matthew Allen, Sinclair Dinnen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

142 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-02837-4 (ISBN)

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This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars of Solomon Islands. The notion of ‘transition’ as used to describe the recent drawdown of the decade-long Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) provides a departure point for considering other transformations – social, political and economic –under way in the archipelagic nation. Organised around a central tension between change and continuity, two of the book’s key themes are the contested narratives of changing state–society relations and the changing social relations around land and natural resources engendered by ongoing processes of globalisation and urbanisation. Drawing heuristically on RAMSI’s genesis in the ‘state- building moment’ that dominated international relations during the first decade of this century, the book also examines the critical distinction between ‘state-building’ and ‘state formation’ in the Solomon Islands context. It engages with global scholarly and policy debates on issues such as peacebuilding, state-building, legal pluralism, hybrid governance, globalisation, urbanisation and the governance of natural resources. These themes resonate well beyond Solomon Islands and Melanesia, and the book will be of interest to a wide range of students, scholars and development practitioners. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Pacific History.

Matthew Allen is a Fellow at The Australian National University. A human geographer who has worked extensively across post-colonial Melanesia, he is the author of Greed and Grievance: Ex-militants’ perspectives on the Conflict in Solomon Islands (2013). Sinclair Dinnen is a Senior Fellow at The Australian National University and a socio-legal scholar with longstanding experience as a researcher and policy adviser in the Melanesia region.

1. Solomon Islands in Transition? 2. The Teleology and Romance of State-building in Solomon Islands 3. Honiara: Arrival City and Pacific Hybrid Living Space 4. From Taovia to Trustee: Urbanisation, Land Disputes and Social Differentiation in Kakabona 5. Customary Authority and State Withdrawal in Solomon Islands: Resilience or Tenacity? 6. Big Money in the Rural: Wealth and Dispossession in Western Solomons Political Economy 7. Maasina Rule beyond Recognition 8. Urban Land in Honiara: Strategies and Rights to the City

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-367-02837-9 / 0367028379
ISBN-13	978-0-367-02837-4 / 9780367028374
Zustand	Neuware