Reconciling ethnicity and nation: Contending discourses in Fiji's constitutional reform

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 83-122

  Norton, Robert ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Chiefs; Constitutional reform; Ethnicity; Fiji; Nation; Political change; Rabuka

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034402714     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cp.2000.0027     Document Type: Article

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