Framing the islands: Knowledge and power in changing Australian images of "the South Pacific"

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 305-344

  Fry, Greg ^a  

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Author keywords

Colonialism; Doomsdayism; Economic development; Identity; Image making; Policy formation; Power structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031215293     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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