‘Failed’ or resilient subaltern communities? Pacific indigenous social protection systems in a neoliberal world

The notion of failed state is based on culturally, historically and ideologically slanted lenses and tends to rank post-colonial societies at the lower end of the Failed State Index (FSI). Likewise, the Social Protection Index (SPI) uses neoliberal and Western-based variables and tends to disadvanta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steven Ratuva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pacific Media Centre 2014-12-01
Series:Pacific Journalism Review
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Online Access:https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/165