Politics of preferential development : trans-global study of affirmative action and ethnic conflict in Fiji, Malaysia and South Africa / Steven Ratuva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ratuva, Steven, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Political aspects.

Minorities.

Race relations--Political aspects.

Race relations.

Ethnic relations--Political aspects.

Ethnic relations.

Malaysia.

South Africa.

Fiji.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Place of Publication:

Canberra : Australian National University, E Press, [2013]

Summary:

The book is a critical examination of affirmative action, a form of preferential development often used to address the situation of disadvantaged groups.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; 1. Affirmative action and trans-global study; 2. Proto-affirmative action: Indigenous Fijian development from cession to independence; 3. Politicized affirmative action: Independence in 1970 to the 1987 military coup; 4. The 1987 military coup: Affirmative action by the gun; 5. Social engineering: Attempts to create an indigenous entrepreneurial class; 6. Appeasement, scams and tension: Affirmative action programs, 1999 to 2006; 7. Post-2006 coup affirmative action: Development at gunpoint; 8. Ethnicity, reform and affirmative action in Malaysia

9. "Black empowerment" policies: Dilemmas of affirmative action in South Africa10. Trans-global affirmative action: Some critical lessons; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 13, 2016).

ISBN:

9781925021035

1925021033

OCLC:

849317063

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_459990