Law and State in Papua New Guinea

By:

"Fitzpatrick, Peter"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York; Academic Press; 1980Description: 290p;: ill.-ISBN:

122578805

Subject(s):

Papua new Guinea economic conditions

DDC classification:

330.9 Fit

Summary: The book appears straightforward enough in structure. It presents, firstly, a Marxist perspective on law and state in the third world, which is then applied and refined in a historical class analysis of the Papua New Guinea case. Matters did not proceed in such a straightforward way, however. The book emerged initially as a reaction against several things - against much academic work in the third world, against theorizing about so-called law and development in particular, against the colonial experience in Papua New Guinea and against the post-colonial. I will outline these reactions and indicate how they led to the perspective offered here. The exercise will be neither rigorous nor lengthy.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	330.9 Fit (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		6331

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The book appears straightforward enough in structure. It presents, firstly, a Marxist perspective on law and state in the third world, which is then applied and refined in a historical class analysis of the Papua New Guinea case. Matters did not proceed in such a straightforward way, however. The book emerged initially as a reaction against several things - against much academic work in the third world, against theorizing about so-called law and development in particular, against the colonial experience in Papua New Guinea and against the post-colonial. I will outline these reactions and indicate how they led to the perspective offered here. The exercise will be neither rigorous nor lengthy.

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