Family Violence and Social Change in the Pacific Islands

ISBN-13: 9780367705060 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Lois Bastide; Denis Regnier

Opis

The Pacific Islands have some of the highest rates of family violence in the world. Addressing the contemporary mutations of Pacific Island families and the shifting understandings of violence in the context of rapid social change, this book investigates the conflict dynamics generated by these transformations.

Spis treści

Introduction - Family violence, and social change in the Pacific Islands  1. Settler violence, family, and whānau violence in Aotearoa, New Zealand  2. Placing the children: fostering Native Hawaiian children in an American state  3. Transferred children and the production of family violence in French Polynesia: social change and the adaptations of fa’a’amura’a  4. Familialism and gender violence in New Caledonian families  5. Naming violence: forms of economic violence in highland Papua New Guinea  6. Culture-based counselling at the domestic violence shelter of the Sisters of the Anglican Church of Melanesia in the Solomon Islands  7. Women-only households in Port Vila, Vanuatu: sites of social resistance  8. From structural violence to family violence: Insights into perpetrators’ experiences in French Polynesia today  9. ‘This is not Vaelens!’: naming and reacting to physical abuse in a Vanuatu school  10. Quarrels, corporal punishment, and magical attacks: What is ‘family violence’ in Kiriwina?  11. Contexts and levels of community violence in highlands Papua New Guinea  Postface - Analysing violence: lessons from a collective reflection