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Disturbing History : Resistance in Early Colonial Fiji / Robert Nicole.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) : 22 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824832919
  • 9780824860981
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 996.11
LOC classification:
  • DU600 ǂb N534 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Colo War of 1876 -- Chapter Two. Navosavakadua and the Tuka Movement -- Chapter Three. The Movement for Federation and the Viti Kabani -- Chapter Four. Organised Plantation Protest -- Chapter Five. Everyday Resistance in the Villages -- Chapter Six. Everyday Resistance on the Plantations -- Chapter Seven. Women's Resistance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About The Author
Summary: Disturbing History focuses on Fiji's people and their agency in responding to and engaging the multifarious forms of authority and power that were manifest in the colony from 1874 to 1914. By concentrating on the lives of ordinary Fijians, the book presents alternate ways of reconstructing the island's past. Couched in the traditions of social, subaltern, and people's histories, the study is an excavation of a large mass of material that tells the often moving stories of lives that have largely been overlooked by historians. These challenge conventional historical accounts that tend to celebrate the nation, represent Fiji's colonial experience as ordered and peaceful, or British tutelage as benevolent. In its contribution to postcolonial theory, Disturbing History reveals resistance as a constant but partial and untidy mix of other constituents such as collaboration, consent, appropriation, and opportunism, which together form the colonial landscape. In turn, colonialism in Fiji is shown as a force shaped in struggle, fractured and often fragile, with a presence and application in the daily lives of people that was often chaotic, imperfect, and susceptible to subversion.The book divides the period of study into two broad categories: organized resistance and everyday forms of resistance. The first examines the Colo War (1876), the Tuka Movement (1878-1891), the Seaqaqa War (1894), the Movement for Federation with New Zealand (1901-1903), the Viti Kabani Movement (1913-1917), and the various organized labor protests. The second half of the book addresses resistance manifested in the villages and plantations, including tax and land boycotts, violence and retributive justice, avoidance protest, petitioning, and women's resistance. In their entirety these forms reveal a complex web of relationships between powerful and subordinate groups and among subordinate groups themselves. The author concludes that resistance cannot be framed as a totality but as a multilayered and multidimensional reality. In the wake of Fiji's present volatile climate, this book will aid readers in understanding the continuities and disjunctures in Fiji's interethnic and intraethnic relations.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Colo War of 1876 -- Chapter Two. Navosavakadua and the Tuka Movement -- Chapter Three. The Movement for Federation and the Viti Kabani -- Chapter Four. Organised Plantation Protest -- Chapter Five. Everyday Resistance in the Villages -- Chapter Six. Everyday Resistance on the Plantations -- Chapter Seven. Women's Resistance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About The Author

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Disturbing History focuses on Fiji's people and their agency in responding to and engaging the multifarious forms of authority and power that were manifest in the colony from 1874 to 1914. By concentrating on the lives of ordinary Fijians, the book presents alternate ways of reconstructing the island's past. Couched in the traditions of social, subaltern, and people's histories, the study is an excavation of a large mass of material that tells the often moving stories of lives that have largely been overlooked by historians. These challenge conventional historical accounts that tend to celebrate the nation, represent Fiji's colonial experience as ordered and peaceful, or British tutelage as benevolent. In its contribution to postcolonial theory, Disturbing History reveals resistance as a constant but partial and untidy mix of other constituents such as collaboration, consent, appropriation, and opportunism, which together form the colonial landscape. In turn, colonialism in Fiji is shown as a force shaped in struggle, fractured and often fragile, with a presence and application in the daily lives of people that was often chaotic, imperfect, and susceptible to subversion.The book divides the period of study into two broad categories: organized resistance and everyday forms of resistance. The first examines the Colo War (1876), the Tuka Movement (1878-1891), the Seaqaqa War (1894), the Movement for Federation with New Zealand (1901-1903), the Viti Kabani Movement (1913-1917), and the various organized labor protests. The second half of the book addresses resistance manifested in the villages and plantations, including tax and land boycotts, violence and retributive justice, avoidance protest, petitioning, and women's resistance. In their entirety these forms reveal a complex web of relationships between powerful and subordinate groups and among subordinate groups themselves. The author concludes that resistance cannot be framed as a totality but as a multilayered and multidimensional reality. In the wake of Fiji's present volatile climate, this book will aid readers in understanding the continuities and disjunctures in Fiji's interethnic and intraethnic relations.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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