The Fiji times and the good citizen: Constructing modernity and nationhood in Fiji

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-109

  Connell, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Fiji; Media; Modernity; Morality; Nationality

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; CULTURAL TRADITION; ETHNICITY; MORALITY; NATIONAL IDENTITY; NATIONALISM; RELIGION;

FIJI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33947197826     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cp.2007.0006     Document Type: Article

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