Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
University of Pisttsburgh
Publication Year:
2015
Publication Place
Fiji
Physical Description:
350 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Relevant Countries
Fiji
Language
English
Record ID:
43811Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Conservation of natural resources - Environmental aspects
Community development--Government policy
Abstract
This dissertation examines the relationship between contemporary development projects and the Fijian idea vanua which is commonly translated as “land” but entails meanings of people, community, and custom. Often treated as a rigid cosmological entity with its own cultural order, in this dissertation I argue that when viewed as an environmental framework in which historical actors and ideas are constantly moving in and out, vanua is actually flexible, open-ended, and has the capacity to interact and collaborate with contemporary development projects such as environmental conservation and commercial farming. This capacity is built from the entanglement of diverse historical forces (e.g. indigenous politics, pre-colonial capitalism, colonial policies) which still resonate in the environment today, and is able to affect the realization of the universal values (e.g. environmentalism, development) intended to be introduced. Here I use a small coastal village called Waitabu located on Taveuni Island as the ethnographic setting to demonstrate how these processes are played out.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
University of Pisttsburgh
Publication Year:
2015
Publication Place
Fiji
Physical Description:
350 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Relevant Countries
Fiji
Language
English
Record ID:
43811 Record Created: 03-Feb-2021
Record Modified: 08-Feb-2021