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Fiji is a country whose recent political instability can be directly traced to its distinctive colonial and post-colonial experience. For one particular region of Fiji the authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of this experience, at scales ranging from national and regional to island, village and household. Discussions in Third World geography, regional economics and development planning have been full of rhetoric about 'underdevelopment', 'centre-periphery relations' and 'dependency', but seldom are the actual processes which give rise to these phenomena examined in detail. In this book the authors explore in depth the interrelations between the island landscape, the cultural geography of the islanders and the intrusive values and opportunities of the market economy. Some important lessons are to be learnt from the gap between what might be predicted from abstract theories of development and what is actually happening in the real world of politicians, planners, farmers and fishermen.

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• Full title: Islands, Islanders and the World
• Subtitle: The Colonial and Post-colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji
• Author: Tim Bayliss-SmithRichard BedfordHarold BrookfieldMarc Latham
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• EAN: 9780521030083
• ISBN: 0521030080
• ID: 02018948
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 533 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. November 2006

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