{"product_id":"acclimatising-to-higher-ground-von-keith-dixon","title":"Acclimatising to higher ground","description":"\u003cp\u003eLife for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern! This book presents a multidisciplinary, retrospective analysis of a Pacific Atoll People living in several countries but held together as a diaspora through notions of kinship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe People have ancestral, cultural, social and continuing residential connections with Nikunau Atoll, at the centre of the Pacific Ocean and once a Cinderella of the British Empire. The analysis explicates their present diasporic circumstances and the pathways through which these arose historically. The intention is to provide a basis for better prospects for succeeding generations from a critical, better-informed standpoint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe analysis relies on the partisan stance of the author, whose kinship ties with I-Nikunau (= people who identify with Nikunau) are affinal, and his 30-year immersion among the People in question. In addition, a large quantity of literature sources and other secondary data are woven into the analysis, as situations and events are grappled with, articulated, interpreted and written into the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe circumstances are analysed under 14 themes, namely, geographical, demographical, economic, environmental, cultural, societal, etc. The analysis should stir the waters of recent research about Nikunau and Kiribati, much of it concerned with environmental changes making uninhabitable Nikunau, Tarawa and other atolls where I-Nikunau reside, and imagining their resettlement on higher ground, for example, New Zealand, where several diasporic communities exist already.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis recent research refers frequently to the social, cultural and economic matters covered in this book, indicating how relevant and important these matters are to the future of I-Nikunau and I-Kiribati. Furthermore, this relevance and importance may apply to the future of other peoples still inhabiting the world¿s atolls and facing whatever challenges this future may bring, climate-related and otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI INTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Research Approach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII I-NIKUNAU IN THE PRESENT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 On Nikunau Atoll\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 On (South) Tarawa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Beyond Kiribati\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF I-NIKUNAU AND INTERPRETATION OF THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Geographical Circumstances (te mauri)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Demographical Circumstances (te mauri)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Economic Circumstances (te tabomoa)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Environmental Circumstances (te mauri)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Biological Circumstances (te mauri)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Nutritional and Corporeal Circumstances (te mauri)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Political Circumstances (te raoi)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 Spiritual Circumstances (te raoi)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 Educational Circumstances (te mauri)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 Social Circumstances (te mauri ao te raoi)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 Organisational Circumstances (te raoi)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16 Distributional Circumstances (te tabomoa)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17 Cultural Circumstances (te raoi)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18 Societal Circumstances (te mauri ao te raoi)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV CONCLUSION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9789464260298\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9789464260298","offer_id":39520246464605,"sku":"9789464260298","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/cc081baa-5f2d-45f3-a26d-c81270abc207.jpg?v=1776058604","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/acclimatising-to-higher-ground-von-keith-dixon","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}