Peace Action: Struggles for a Decolonised and Demilitarised Oceania and East Asia – Edited by Valerie Morse

Description

This book is about activists, their organising and their causes, and the interconnections between social struggles separated by the vast expanse of Te Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa. It includes chapters on the Doctrine of Discovery, on Ihumātao, on anti-militarist organising in South Korea, on campaigning against US military training in Hawai’i and Japan, on French colonialism in Tahiti and Kanaky, about Korean peace movements in Aotearoa and Australia, about Indonesia’s occupation of West Papua, on feminist resistance to war, on NZ’s history of Chinese-Māori solidarity, and on peace gardening at Parihaka