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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Fijian"”.
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Cakaudrove : ideology and reality in a Fijian confederation
… the i Sokula's relationships with other powerful Fijian lineages and a Tongan chief illuntrate the complexity of Fijian politics: power positions needed to be achieved and then constantly maintained. The i Sokula managed to withstand pressure from the confederation of Bau, but the Tongan was to …
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Cakaudrove : ideology and reality in a Fijian confederation
… the i Sokula's relationships with other powerful Fijian lineages and a Tongan chief illuntrate the complexity of Fijian politics: power positions needed to be achieved and then constantly maintained. The i Sokula managed to withstand pressure from the confederation of Bau, but the Tongan was to …
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Fijian students’ perceptions of their science learning environment in New Zealand secondary schools
… learning. Little research has been done on Fijian students to address this. The purpose of this study is to examine Fijian students' perceptions of their current and preferred learning environment and how it can be improved to suit the learning needs of Fijian students. Talanoa, a Pacific …
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Policy options for climate change loss and damage: A case study from Fijian agriculture
… change L&D from cyclones and droughts in the Fijian sugar industry. In-depth semi-structured interviews (n=68) were conducted with farmers from two Indo-Fijian sugarcane communities, Barotu and Toko settlements in Western Viti Levu, Fiji, and with key stakeholders from government ministries, …
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Gender, survival and self-respect: dimensions for agency for women within a poor rural Indo-Fijian community
… The second part ofthe thesis is about Indo-Fijian women's lived experiences of poverty and the ways in which these experiences denote gendered dynamics of survival, forming the basis on which to test my central concerns. The premise of my argument is that while women may experience gendered …
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Gender, survival and self-respect: dimensions for agency for women within a poor rural Indo-Fijian community
… The second part ofthe thesis is about Indo-Fijian women's lived experiences of poverty and the ways in which these experiences denote gendered dynamics of survival, forming the basis on which to test my central concerns. The premise of my argument is that while women may experience gendered …
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It Takes the Love of the Living and the Dead: Indo-Fijian Craft as Embodied Knowledge and Anarchism
… I seek to develop a decolonial framework of Indo-Fijian anarchism and self-determination at the intersections of craft, cultural knowledge, critical theory, and Girmit history and scholarship. Fiji Girmit (indentured labour) scholarship predominantly revolves around my community’s trauma, pain, …
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Spiritual beliefs, practices, and shadows of the Ahmadiyya Jama’at in Fiji
… the self-perceptions and lived experiences of Fijian Ahmadis - members of a transnational religious minority who self-identify as Muslims under the spiritual leadership of the Khalifa based in London, UK. The global Ahmadiyya Jama’at positions its adherents as divinely appointed bearers of the …
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“It is a strange thing for us to see water being sold”: Local Perceptions of the Fijian Bottled Water Industry
… project examines discourses that residents of Fijian communities in close proximity to the bottled water plant and representatives of the FIJI Water Company use to make sense of the global bottled water market and how these perceptions relate to larger questions about globalization, …
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“It is a strange thing for us to see water being sold”: Local Perceptions of the Fijian Bottled Water Industry
… project examines discourses that residents of Fijian communities in close proximity to the bottled water plant and representatives of the FIJI Water Company use to make sense of the global bottled water market and how these perceptions relate to larger questions about globalization, …
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Balancing Two Worlds: Female Indo-Fijian Immigrant Youth in Their Public and Private Domains and the Emergence of the New Hybridity
… identity. Using a case study of female Indo-Fijian immigrant youth in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, I discuss the concept of hybridity through investigating the way in which the public and school life and the private and home life influence the expression of ethnicity, nationality, and identity. …
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Ecological role and conservation status of the endangered, native Fijian free-tailed bat (Mops bregullae, Felten 1964) in fragmented forest habitats
… forest ecosystems. The ecology of the endangered Fijian freetailed bat (Mops bregullae), like other endangered bats in the Pacific, is virtually unknown and research is considered to be a priority requirement to inform current management planning and conservation efforts (Waldien et al., 2019, …
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Exploring Volunteer Tourism for Happiness in Fiji: A Decolonising Methodology Perspective
… (VT) in shaping the happiness of Indigenous Fijians in rural communities. It examines how happiness is represented in tourism marketing and how it is conceptualised and experienced by iTaukei(Indigenous Fijian) communities. The study generates an Indigenous Fijian understanding of happiness, …
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Culture and entrepreneurship in Fiji's small tourism business sector
… groupings. The question of whether successful Fijian entrepreneurship could develop by a fusion of collectivism and entrepreneurial principles was also explored. Ninety-nine respondents from the private, public and semi-public organisations participated in the qualitative survey and a further …
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Cassava, Coconut and Curry: Food and National Identity in Post-Colonial Fiji
… food, nationalism and national identity in the Fijian Islands. I argue that food provides an area in which an inclusive national identity has developed against a backdrop of division. By utilising the framework of imagined communities (Anderson 1991), I hope to demonstrate how food, as a part of …
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Itaukei (Indigenous Fijian) oral narratives on climate change building adaptability and mitigation - a case study on University of the South Pacific students from the province of Nadroga, Viti Levu
Pacific Island societies, although highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate and other environmental changes, have managed to adapt and survive for thousands of years. Embedded in the cultures of Pacific communities is indigenous knowledge, including oral narratives, that provide alternative …
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Fiji and the franchise : a history of political representation, 1900-1937
… in Chapters VII, VIII and IX. Since the Fijians were not the proponents cf constitutional change they receive considerably less attention. But they cannot be ignored,as their presence and rights were the crucial determinants in the process of political change in their native land. Hence …
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Fiji and the franchise : a history of political representation, 1900-1937
… in Chapters VII, VIII and IX. Since the Fijians were not the proponents cf constitutional change they receive considerably less attention. But they cannot be ignored,as their presence and rights were the crucial determinants in the process of political change in their native land. Hence …
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What makes constitutions legitimate? A legal analysis of constitutions and legitimacy: The example of Fiji.
… The application of these concepts to the Fijian context reveals that in most Fijian constitutional instruments from 1865 to date both fair and independent delivery of justice and access to the mechanisms of justice were assured. The two exceptions were the 1990 Constitution and the 2013 …
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