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- Title: Policing the Holy Nation: The State and Righteous Violence in Vanuatu (Report)
- Author : Oceania
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 245 KB
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INTRODUCTION (1) Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, has always been a cross-road for the multiple currents of the international scene (Philibert 1981; Rawlings 1999). Today these include: growing international investment in land and in residential and commercial property; increased poverty and unemployment; new state intervention by Australia, New Zealand and the European Union; and a proliferation of international and indigenous Pentecostal churches. Criss-crossed by these currents this little Melanesian city has become a moral battle-ground over modernity itself (Eriksen 2009a, 2009b; Lattas and Rio, Mitchell this collection; Taylor 2010). The city has become a contested field for realigning and reconstituting the relations and tensions between kastom and church, men and women, person and kinship, master and servant, and nation and state. In opposition to commentators focused on Melanesian instability and 'failed states' (Dinnen and McLeod 2009; McLeod and Morgan 2007), I will argue that state power is being transformed and reinforced to meet new moral understandings of evil.
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