Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power

by Eben Kirksey

Book Overview

Eben Kirksey first went to West Papua, the Indonesian-controlled half of New Guinea, as an exchange student in 1998. His later study of West Papua's resistance to the Indonesian occupiers and the forces of globalization morphed as he discovered that collaboration, rather than resistance, was the primary strategy of this dynamic social movement. Accompanying indigenous activists to Washington, London, and the offices of the oil giant BP, Kirksey saw...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082235134X
• ISBN13: 9780822351344
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"