Languages of Governance in Conflict

Name: Languages of Governance in Conflict | Negotiating democracy in Tokelau
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Negotiating democracy in Tokelau

Ingjerd Hoëm(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 20. März 2015

XXII, 152 Seiten

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Languages of Governance in Conflict
Editorial page
Title page
Lcc data
"Goldilocks Zone"
A note on names and anonymity
Table of contents
Note on linguistic conventions
Preface
Conflict
Presentation of the argument and structure of the book
The case as presented throughout
Historical transformations and theoretical perspectives
Tokelau in the world, Tokelau i te lalolagi
The approach
The subject matter
Acknowledgements
Languages of governance
Tokelau: a political background
Na aho anamua - the days before
Early contacts
Changes in leadership institutions
The "neo-traditional order", migration and transnational relations
Contemporary politics and the emergence of national institutions
The political situation from the 1990s to the present: The relationship between Tokelau and New Zealand
Language games
A semiotic approach to values
Languages of governance in conflict
A conversation with the pastor
Some underlying principles
Gender issues: Pastor and wife as role models
Leadership and forms of sociality*
Forms of sociality
Sides and kin
The brother: Sister relationship
Kinship, principles and practice
The dynamics of kaiga: Connecting (fau) through land, and separating by untying (tatala) land
Kinds of kin: Different types of power and responsibilities
Generational cohorts and relationships of command and responsibility
Relationships (va), avoidance and shame (ma)
Ha (tapu, sacred, forbidden) and va in schoolchildren's conceptions
Sides and the village
Ritual moieties
Making sides, making wholes: Separation and unity
Conflict management
Morality, gender and governance
The case, continued
Transformations in leadership and political institutions: Effects on conflict management
Voluntary service abroad and the women's committee (fatupaepae)
Communicative practice and contested values
Communicative practice: Underlying values and basic orientations
Ways of speaking: Expressions of leadership and legitimate authority
The Tokelauan language situation and intertextuality
The Tokelauan language
Use of ergative construction (written report, formal)
Use of absolutive construction (written report, formal)
Linguistic skill and exchange of semiotic resources
Intertextuality
Information flow, media and scale
Intertext one
A news report - and its reception
Intertext two
Traces of a missing concept, alofa
Intertext three
Learning the principle of "sides" on Facebook
Intertext four
On the relationship between people of the land and visitors from overseas
Disentangling concepts
Spatial orientations and temporality
Temporal regimes and the Tokelau life world
Exploring semantic field s-comparing concepts
The semantic fields of "growth" and "tupu"
Traces of polynesian ontology
"Tupu" in contemporary social context
Growth and translated/transposed concepts
The semantic fields of "transparency" and "social visibility"
The semantic fields of "accountability" and of "keeping inati records"
Qualitative differences: Genealogical time and audit culture in comparison
What is at stake - a lesson from material semiotics
Political Consequences
"What would happen if I stood up and did the haka?"
A conflation of spiritual and secular power, and a merging of administrative and political institutions
How gender came to be a critical factor
Consequences for the referendum
One conflict - different approaches to governance
On the significance of the different conceptions of governance
Common ground and gaps in communication
Transformations of governance in the light of conflict management
How conflicts were handled in the mid-1980s to 1990s
Governance, concepts of power and legitimate authority
Local political dynamics viewed as an impediment to progress
Speeding up
And slowing down
Changing media and instruments of communication
Language games: Two different approaches to conflict management
Consensus, democracy, containment of conflict and the transnational context
Future perspectives
Transformations of leadership institutions and principles of representation
Main challenges posed by the current political and administrative institutions
Tokelau in the Pacific and beyond
Language games: ethnicity versus intertextuality
Abbreviations
Tokelauan kinship terms
Tokelauan words with English glosses
References
Index

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