Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Statebuilding and State Formation in the Western Pacific: Solomon Islands in Transition? book cover

1st Edition

Statebuilding and State Formation in the Western Pacific Solomon Islands in Transition?

Edited By Matthew Allen, Sinclair Dinnen Copyright 2017
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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... Read more

1. Solomon Islands in Transition?
Matthew G. Allen and Sinclair Dinnen

2. The Teleology and Romance of State-building in Solomon Islands
Jon Fraenkel

3. Honiara: Arrival City and Pacific Hybrid Living Space
Clive Moore

4. From Taovia to Trustee: Urbanisation, Land Disputes and Social Differentiation in Kakabona
Rebecca Monson

5. Customary Authority and State Withdrawal in Solomon Islands: Resilience or Tenacity?
Debra Mcdougall

6. Big Money in the Rural: Wealth and Dispossession in Western Solomons Political Economy
Edvard Hviding

7. Maasina Rule beyond Recognition
David Akin

8. Urban Land in Honiara: Strategies and Rights to the City
Joseph Foukona

Biography

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.

Add to Cart