TY - BOOK AU - Firth,Stewart ED - State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project. ED - Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands Conference TI - Globalisation and governance in the Pacific Islands T2 - Studies in state and society in the Pacific SN - 9781920942977 PY - 2006/// CY - Canberra PB - ANU E Press KW - Globalization KW - Oceania KW - Congresses KW - Politics and government N1 - "State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program Studies in State and Society in the Pacific, No 1."; "The State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project at the Australian National University organised a conference on globalisation and governance in the Pacific Islands in October 2005, and this ... brings together the papers"--Introduction; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Keynote address; From neo-liberalism to the new medievalism; John Rapley --; 2; Treading water in the rapids? Non-governmental organisations and resistance to neo-liberalism in Pacific Island states; Claire Slatter --; 3; Regionalism and cultural identity: putting the Pacific back into the plan; Elise Huffer --; 4; Migration, dependency and inequality in the Pacific: old wine in bigger bottles? (Part 1); John Connell --; 5; Migration, dependency and inequality in the Pacific: old wine in bigger bottles?; John Connell --; 6; Globalisation, new labour migration and development in Fiji; Manoranjan Mohanty --; 7; Tonga only wants our money: the children of Tongan migrants; Helen Lee --; 8; Labour mobility in the Pacific: creating seasonal work programs in Australia; Nic Maclellan and Peter Mares --; 9; Contemporary migration within the Pacific Islands; the case of Fijian skilled workers in Kiribati and Marshall Islands; Avelina Rokoduru --; 10; Fiji: sugar and sweatshirts, migrants and remittances; Kate Hannan --; 11; End of the line? Globalisation and Fiji's garment industry; Donovan Storey --; 12; Global capital and local ownership in Solomon Islands' forestry industry; Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka --; 13; Mining, social change and corporate social responsibility: drawing lines in the Papua New Guinea mud; Glenn Banks --; 14; The resource curse and governance: a Papua New Guinea perspective; Mel Togolo --; 15. Keynote address; Governance in Fiji: the interplay between indigenous tradition, culture and politics; Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi --; 16; The state of the State in Fiji: some failings in the periphery; Vijay Naidu --; 17; Power sharing in Fiji and New Caledonia; Joh Fraenkel --; 18; More than 20 years of political stability in Samoa under the Human Rights Protection Party; Asofou So'o --; 19; Matai titles and modern corruption in Samoa: costs, expectations and consequences for families and society; A. Morgan Tuimaleali' ifano--; 20. Keynote address; Keeping the information flow open: a key condition for good government in Micronesia; Father Francis X. Hezel --; 21; Governance, globalisation and the PNG media: a survival dilemma; Joe R. Kanekane --; 22; Democracy in Papua New Guinea: challenges from a rights-based approach; Orovu Sepoe --; 23; Governance and livelihood realities in Solomon Islands; Morgan Wairiu; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://epress.anu.edu.au UR - hhttps://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/state-society-and-governance-melanesia/globalisation-and-governance-pacific ER -