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11%OFFEben Kirksey - Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power - 9780822351344 - V9780822351344
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Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power

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Description for Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power Paperback. West Papua has been occupied by the Indonesian military for forty years. The author, an anthropologist, went there planning to study the resistance movements working for independence. This title narrates the complexities of West Papuan attitudes, including their unfulfilled expectations of freedom following the fall of Suharto. Num Pages: 328 pages, 52 photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1MKLP; JHM; JPW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
Eben Kirksey first went to West Papua, the Indonesian-controlled half of New Guinea, as an exchange student in 1998. His later study of West Papua's resistance to the Indonesian occupiers and the forces of globalization morphed as he discovered that collaboration, rather than resistance, was the primary strategy of this dynamic social movement. Accompanying indigenous activists to Washington, London, and the offices of the oil giant BP, Kirksey saw the revolutionaries' knack for getting inside institutions of power and building coalitions with unlikely allies, including many Indonesians. He discovered that the West Papuans' pragmatic activism was based on visions of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822351344
SKU
V9780822351344
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About Eben Kirksey
Eben Kirksey is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

Reviews for Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power
“Here at last is the account I can unreservedly recommend to anyone interested in the courageous people and fragile geography of West Papua. Eben Kirksey makes accessible the unique imagery of West Papuans long subject to racism, corporate exploitation, and a brutal military. Marshaling impeccable scholarship, he transcends conventional political ideology to define a form of conflict resolution relevant to ... Read more

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