ISBN:
0521496381
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 228 S.
,
Kt.
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Cambridge Asia-Pacific studies
DDC:
320.995
Keywords:
Democratie
;
Traditionele samenleving
;
Demokratie
;
Politik
;
Democracy Case studies
;
Tradition
;
Demokratie
;
Demokratisierung
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Fiji Politics and government
;
Samoa Politics and government
;
Tonga Politics and government
;
Ozeanien
;
Westsamoa
;
Fidschi
;
Tonga
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Fidschi
;
Tonga
;
Westsamoa
;
Demokratisierung
;
Ozeanien
;
Tradition
;
Demokratie
;
Politischer Wandel
Abstract:
Much recent literature on non-Western countries celebrates the renaissance of indigenous culture, Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific, however, looks more critically at Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa, showing how current movements to reclaim and celebrate 'tradition' may protect the power and privileges of indigenous elites and promote political conservatism. Stephanie Lawson argues that opposition to 'Western' democracy in the name of 'tradition' is not necessarily representative of indigenous people at the grassroots level, and is often carefully manipulated to benefit an elite
Abstract:
Lawson is critical of cultural relativism, a concept which, she suggests, limits the discussion of democracy in non-Western countries and leads to deterministic stereotypes. Relativism can also reinscribe an essentialist framework, creating an ethical void in which little of critical value can be said. She is equally skeptical, however, of universalist positions which seek to promote a single, fixed conception of democratic politics and which can be as dogmatic in assumption as relativist modes of theorizing
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http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a0q8-aa
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam027/95032415.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam034/95032415.html
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http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a0q8-aa
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam027/95032415.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam034/95032415.html
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http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a0q8-aa
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam027/95032415.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam034/95032415.html
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