Morning Star Rising The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua 1st Edition by Camellia Webb Gannon ISBN 0824888898 9780824888893

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ISBN 10: 0824888898

ISBN 13: 9780824888893 

Author: Camellia Webb-Gannon

That Indonesia’s ongoing occupation of West Papua continues to be largely ignored by world governments is one of the great moral and political failures of our time. West Papuans have struggled for more than fifty years to find a way through the long night of Indonesian colonization. However, united in their pursuit of merdeka (freedom) in its many forms, what holds West Papuans together is greater than what divides them. Today, the Morning Star glimmers on the horizon, the supreme symbol of merdeka and a cherished sign of hope for the imminent arrival of peace and justice to West Papua.

Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua is an ethnographically framed account of the long, bitter fight for freedom that challenges the dominant international narrative that West Papuans’ quest for political independence is fractured and futile. Camellia Webb-Gannon’s extensive interviews with the decolonization movement’s original architects and its more recent champions shed light on complex diasporic and intergenerational politics as well as social and cultural resurgence. In foregrounding West Papuans’ perspectives, the author shows that it is the body politic’s unflagging determination and hope, rather than military might or influential allies, that form the movement’s most unifying and powerful force for independence.

This book examines the many intertwining strands of decolonization in Melanesia. Differences in cultural performance and political diversity throughout the region are generating new, fruitful trajectories. Simultaneously, Black and Indigenous solidarity and a shared Melanesian identity have forged a transnational grassroots power-base from which the movement is gaining momentum. Relevant beyond its West Papua focus, this book is essential reading for those interested in Pacific studies, Native and Indigenous studies, development studies, activism, and decolonization.

Table of contents:

1 Wish Upon a Star: Merdeka as West Papuans’ Decolonization Hope

2 Dreams: What Does the Future Hold?

3 Constellations: Cultural Performance as Resistance at Home and Abroad

4 Wrestling in the Dark: Three Generations of Factions

5 Stars Aligning: West Papua in the Black Pacific and Beyond

Conclusion: A New Day Dawning

Notes

References

Index

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