Tahiti Beyond the Postcard Power, Place, and Everyday Life

Name: Tahiti Beyond the Postcard Power, Place, and Everyday Life
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ISBN: 9780295991023

ISBN-10: 029599102X

ISBN-13: 9780295991023

Edition: 2011

Authors: Miriam Kahn

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The "Tahiti" that most people imagine-white-sand beaches, turquoise lagoons, and beautiful women-is a product of 18th century European romanticism and persists today to serve as the bedrock of Tahiti's tourism industry. This postcard image, however, masks a different, less known reality. French Polynesia remains a colony of France in the 21st century and was the site of France's nuclear testing program for nearly thirty years. The dreams and desires, which the tourism industry promotes, distract from the medical nightmares and environmental destruction caused by nuclear testing. Tahitians see the burying of a bomb in their land as deeply offensive. For them, the land abounds with ancestral…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 2/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Note to the Reader


Introduction



New Geographies in the Wake of Colonialism



Placentas in the Land, Bombs in the Bedrock



Keeping the Myth Alive



In the Cocoon



From Our Place to Their Place



Everyday Spaces of Resistance



E Aha Atu Ra? What Will Happen?


Notes


References


Index