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The Future Of Tokelau : Decolonising Agendas 1975-2006
Paperback Edition: 1
This book is a sequel toTokelau: A Historical Ethnography and follows the history of the small Pacific nation from the 1970s up to the recent referendum in which the Tokelauans voted to remain a New Zealand dependency. It is an extraordinary story - a dramatic narrative in which officials, politicians and Tokelau elders all play their roles and the repeated clash of cultures leads to comic, bizarre and often disturbing outcomes. This is a superbly researched study of village social and political life in a modernising world, and also a brilliant critique of the United Nations and the way it conducts its affairs.
Featured in the 11 September 2007 Latest New Zealand newsletter.
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Pages : 300
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Publication date : 2007-08-10
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in New Zealand, Pasifika, Tokelau, Pacific History, Tokelauan History