Morning star rising the politics of decolonization in West Papua
"That Indonesia's ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long night of Indonesian colonization. Howev...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu
University of Hawaiʻi Press
2021, ©2021
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| Series: | Indigenous pacifics
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of West Papuan Political Factions
- Introduction
- The Morning Star
- 1
- Wish upon a Star
- Merdeka as West Papuans' Decolonization Hope
- 2
- Dreams
- What Does the Future Hold?
- 3
- Constellations
- Cultural Performance as Resistance at Home and Abroad
- 4
- Wrestling in the Dark
- Three Generations of Factions
- 5
- Stars Aligning
- West Papua in the Black Pacific and Beyond
- Conclusion
- A New Day Dawning
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author