ISLAND SOVEREIGNTY

So rarely are Polynesian, Micronesian, or Melanesian news items featured in the US media, that the image of dreamy tropic islands persists in the western imagination. A tacit conspiracy by the media's advertisers and proponents of the tourism industry? The dawning of the new millennium at Kirib...

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Published inWhole earth (San Rafael, Calif.) no. 102; p. 78
Main Author McIntosh, Ian S
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sausalito New Whole Earth, LLC 01.10.2000
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Summary:So rarely are Polynesian, Micronesian, or Melanesian news items featured in the US media, that the image of dreamy tropic islands persists in the western imagination. A tacit conspiracy by the media's advertisers and proponents of the tourism industry? The dawning of the new millennium at Kiribati and Fiji received blanket television coverage, but the rise of the Guadalcanal Indigenous Revolutionary Party in the Solomon Islands, civil unrest in Samoa, the movements for independence from France in Kanaky (New Caledonia) and Tahiti, and continued battles for justice and reparations in the Marshall Islands, Bougainville, and elsewhere-- received little or no press.
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ISSN:1097-5268