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Languages of Governance in Conflict

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Languages of Governance in Conflict

By Ingjerd Hoëm

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Through an ethnographically based study of local communicative practices in the Pacific atoll society of Tokelau, the book adds to our understanding of how systems of governance are constituted by minute acts of social interaction, and are informed by our conceptions of the nature of sociality. It combines a social anthropological approach to postcolonial studies in which local and trans-national communicative practices related to governance and conflict management are analysed as different lang...Show more

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9789027202963

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John Benjamins Publishing Co

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2015

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1

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Languages of Governance in Conflict

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Hardcover

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