Pacific Realities

Download or read book Pacific Realities written by Laurent Dousset and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of “glocalization”; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities. Consequently, new forms of resistance and resilience – the processes by which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement – emerge. Through case studies from across the Pacific which transcend the conventional “local-global” dichotomy, this volume aims to explore these complex and interwoven phenomena from a new perspective.