Ralph R Premdas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 733036 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ralph R Premdas |
| NOMBRES | Ralph R |
| APELLIDO | Premdas |
| FIRMA | PREMDAS R R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the West Indies |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Social justice and affirmative action
While the concept 'justice' undergirds every discourse on affirmative action, its meaning is feverishly contested with contradictory definitions wielded as battling swords in a zero sum struggle over the distribution of scarce material resources and symbolic goods. In part, the issues have become even more important since the number of states that have now embarked on affirmative action policies have been growing and the results have been diverse…
Coolie woman
After the abolition of slavery in 1831, plantation owners in the British colonies of the Caribbean, facing bankruptcy, sought a replacement for their abundant and cheap African labour in the form o
Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict
Introduction: Affirmative Action, Horizontal Inequalities, and Equitable Development Edmund Terence Gomez and Ralph Premdas 1. Poverty, Equality, and Affirmative Action in India Sunita Parikh 2. The Struggle for Equality and Justice: Affirmative Action in the United States of America Ralph Premdas 3. Ethnicity, Economy, and Affirmative Action in Malaysia Lee Hock Aun, Edmund Terence Gomez, and Shakila Yacob 4. Coerced Preferences: Affirmative Act…
Exceptional Violence
Deborah A. Thomas, EXCEPTIONAL VIOLENCE: EMBODIED CITIZENSHIP IN TRANSNATIONAL JAMAICA, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011, 298 pp., £15.99 (pbk) This book is about violent mainly drug-related
Identity, ethnicity, and the Caribbean homeland in an era of globalization
The paper looks at Caribbean territorial identity at the crossroads of the new forces of globalization. It offers a topology of Caribbean identities along an ethno-cultural axis. It looks at identity as an area of change and contestation. In developing the ideas of Caribbean identity the paper looks at the concept of the Caribbean homeland as a constituent element in defining regional and territorial arena of identity formation. It attempts to sh…
Trinidad and Tobago
Foreword Preface Ethnicity, Inequality and Conflict: An Introduction The Peoples of Trinidad and Tobago: Historical and Constitutional Evolution Struggles over the Distribution of Posts in the Public Service, Private Sector, Cabinet, Parliament and Presidency Identity Politics: Struggles over Symbols, Culture and History Partisan Politics, Electoral Systems and Ethnic Strife Modes and Mechanisms of Inter-Ethnic Conflict Management Conclusion
Trinidad and Tobago
How does a multi-ethnic society resolve the contentious issue of resource allocation without damaging the state? This study examines inequality in terms of distributive justice, adaptation of politica
The Guyana Ethnic Quagmire
The multi-ethnic state of Guyana, as in many parts of the Third World, was a colonial artifact. State and nation were not co-terminus entities; rather, the colonial state deliberately spawned an ethnically segmented social and cultural fabric. The inherited political institutional apparatus through which state power was contested—specifically, the competitive parliamentary system–-engaged the ethnically based parties in a zero-sum struggle for po…
Diaspora and its discontents
The essay examines the role of The Ontario Society for Services to the Indo-Caribbean Community [OSSICC], a historic organization that sought to assert the dignity and re-discover the identity of Indo-Caribbean persons as a fragment of the Caribbean diaspora in Toronto, Canada. While it points to the achievement in representing the interests of its members for symbolic cultural recognition, it underscored the limitations in the political arena fo…
Identity in an Ethnically Bifurcated State
In a multiethnic state, identity formation and its manifestations assume a peculiar shape, simultaneously reflecting and reinforcing contradictory ethnocultural forces. Identities that are formed within a state that is relatively integrated by a body of shared values tend to pass through phases and display a shape different from those that evolve within a multicommunal milieu. Especially where intersectional relations have been inflamed, sustaine…
Seizure of power, indigenous rights and crafting democratic governance in Fiji
The overthrow of the duly elected government of Fiji in May 2000 illustrates some of the problems of establishing democratic institutions in deeply divided states. In part, while the Fiji case suggests the need for consensus political systems of powersharing requiring special kinds of institutional arrangements which deviate from standard Western zero‐sum adversarial parliamentary models, it points to its limitations in an inflamed communal socie…
Recovering democracy
Cette étude propose une analyse des problèmes fondamentaux du système politique guyanais, et suggère des orientations susceptibles de générer une évolution vers une réconciliation interethnique et une consociation politique. Le nœud du problème réside dans l’établissement d’un gouvernement généralement acceptable, juste et démocratique, et ce dans un contexte où les composantes communautaires sont profondément méfiantes, tant en Guyane que dans d…
Ethnicity, elections and democracy in Trinidad and Tobago
The paper examines elections in Trinidad and Tobago, showing how they are organised around communal appeals in an environment where inter‐ethnic suspicion is widespread and communal identity is interwoven and institutionalised in organised party politics. The 1995 general elections witnessed the defeat of the predominantly African‐based ruling PNM by the predominantly Indian‐based UNC, the first time an Indian acceded to the prime ministership. L…
Politics in Vanuatu
Premdas Ralph R., Steeves Jeffrey S. Politics in Vanuatu : the 1991 Elections. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 100-101, 1995-1-2. pp. 221-234
The Solomon Islands in transition
Ethnic Domination And Reconciliation In Multi-ethnic Societies
(1995). “Ethnic Domination And Reconciliation In Multi-ethnic Societies: A Re-consideration And An Alternative To J. Furnivall And M.G. Smith”. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 41, The Indian Presence: Arrival and after, pp. 76-86
Vanuatu
Internationalisation Of Ethnic Conflict In The Caribbean
(1994). Internationalisation Of Ethnic Conflict In The Caribbean: The Case Of Guyana. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 40, No. 3-4, pp. 125-138
Ethnic politics and inequality in Fiji
Les régimes inégaux et répressifs sont devenus le type prédominant dans les sociétés plurielles du Tiers-Monde. Très peu d'arrangements sont apparus pour réconcilier les revendications divergentes des groupes ethniques dans un état et pour préserver en même temps un minimum de démocratie et de stabilité. L'inégalité et la domination ethniques sont devenues les nouvelles normes. Dans cet article, nous examinons le cas des Iles Fiji, en considérant…
General Rabuka and the Fiji Elections of 1992
Research Article| October 01 1993 General Rabuka and the Fiji Elections of 1992 Ralph Premdas Ralph Premdas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1993) 33 (10): 997–1009. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645098 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search…
Mining, Politics, and Development in the South Pacific
Vanuatu
Fiji
Fiji under a New Political Order
Research Article| June 01 1991 Fiji under a New Political Order: Ethnicity and Indigenous Rights Ralph R. Premdas Ralph R. Premdas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1991) 31 (6): 540–558. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645082 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions …
Political and constitutional crisis in Vanuatu
(1990). Political and constitutional crisis in Vanuatu. The Round Table: Vol. 79, No. 313, pp. 43-64
Exceptional Violence
Deborah A. Thomas, EXCEPTIONAL VIOLENCE: EMBODIED CITIZENSHIP IN TRANSNATIONAL JAMAICA, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011, 298 pp., £15.99 (pbk) This book is about violent mainly drug-related
Coolie woman
After the abolition of slavery in 1831, plantation owners in the British colonies of the Caribbean, facing bankruptcy, sought a replacement for their abundant and cheap African labour in the form o
The Rise of the First Mass-Based Multi-Racial Party in Guyana
(1974). The Rise of the First Mass-Based Multi-Racial Party in Guyana. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 20, No. 3-4, pp. 5-20
Diaspora and its discontents
The essay examines the role of The Ontario Society for Services to the Indo-Caribbean Community [OSSICC], a historic organization that sought to assert the dignity and re-discover the identity of Indo-Caribbean persons as a fragment of the Caribbean diaspora in Toronto, Canada. While it points to the achievement in representing the interests of its members for symbolic cultural recognition, it underscored the limitations in the political arena fo…
Social justice and affirmative action
While the concept 'justice' undergirds every discourse on affirmative action, its meaning is feverishly contested with contradictory definitions wielded as battling swords in a zero sum struggle over the distribution of scarce material resources and symbolic goods. In part, the issues have become even more important since the number of states that have now embarked on affirmative action policies have been growing and the results have been diverse…
Melanesian socialism
Elections and Political Campaigns in a Racially Bifurcated State
In democratic, integrated political systems characterized by a sharing of fundamental social values and "primitive beliefs" among the population, elections serve a salutary purpose. They not only reaffirm the commitment and involvement of the citizen to the prevailing political system by the ritual act of voting participation, but simultaneously legitimize the means and processes by which political values are authoritatively allocated (Milnor, 19…
Identity, ethnicity, and the Caribbean homeland in an era of globalization
The paper looks at Caribbean territorial identity at the crossroads of the new forces of globalization. It offers a topology of Caribbean identities along an ethno-cultural axis. It looks at identity as an area of change and contestation. In developing the ideas of Caribbean identity the paper looks at the concept of the Caribbean homeland as a constituent element in defining regional and territorial arena of identity formation. It attempts to sh…
Politics in Vanuatu
Premdas Ralph R., Steeves Jeffrey S. Politics in Vanuatu : the 1991 Elections. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 100-101, 1995-1-2. pp. 221-234
Guyana
Many communally divided postcolonial states rely almost exclusively upon an effective machinery of control to ensure political order. This has stemmed from two factors: (1) unrestrained communal competition for votes; and (2) inheritance of a highly centralized state apparatus. The first condition has tended to politicize sectional cleavages, exacerbating distrust (Premdas, 1972: 19-20). Without a body of shared values in the state, protection of…
Secessionist Politics in Papua New Guinea
N SEPTEMBER i6, 1975 New Guinea (PNG) obtained its independence from Australia. Previously had been Australian territory, acquired in i906, whereas New Guinea had been a U.N. Trust Territory (and formerly a Mandate of the League of Nations) under the control of Australia. During World War II, and New Guinea were jointly administered by Australia and in I949 this arrangement was continued until 1975 when the two legally separate entities were gran…
The Guyana Ethnic Quagmire
The multi-ethnic state of Guyana, as in many parts of the Third World, was a colonial artifact. State and nation were not co-terminus entities; rather, the colonial state deliberately spawned an ethnically segmented social and cultural fabric. The inherited political institutional apparatus through which state power was contested—specifically, the competitive parliamentary system–-engaged the ethnically based parties in a zero-sum struggle for po…
Seizure of power, indigenous rights and crafting democratic governance in Fiji
The overthrow of the duly elected government of Fiji in May 2000 illustrates some of the problems of establishing democratic institutions in deeply divided states. In part, while the Fiji case suggests the need for consensus political systems of powersharing requiring special kinds of institutional arrangements which deviate from standard Western zero‐sum adversarial parliamentary models, it points to its limitations in an inflamed communal socie…
The Solomon Islands in transition
Vanuatu
Political and constitutional crisis in Vanuatu
(1990). Political and constitutional crisis in Vanuatu. The Round Table: Vol. 79, No. 313, pp. 43-64
Race, ideology, and power in Guyana
Elections in Fiji
Ethnic Domination And Reconciliation In Multi-ethnic Societies
(1995). “Ethnic Domination And Reconciliation In Multi-ethnic Societies: A Re-consideration And An Alternative To J. Furnivall And M.G. Smith”. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 41, The Indian Presence: Arrival and after, pp. 76-86
Internationalisation Of Ethnic Conflict In The Caribbean
(1994). Internationalisation Of Ethnic Conflict In The Caribbean: The Case Of Guyana. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 40, No. 3-4, pp. 125-138
Ethnic politics and inequality in Fiji
Les régimes inégaux et répressifs sont devenus le type prédominant dans les sociétés plurielles du Tiers-Monde. Très peu d'arrangements sont apparus pour réconcilier les revendications divergentes des groupes ethniques dans un état et pour préserver en même temps un minimum de démocratie et de stabilité. L'inégalité et la domination ethniques sont devenues les nouvelles normes. Dans cet article, nous examinons le cas des Iles Fiji, en considérant…
Vanuatu
Vanuatu
The Organisasi Papua Merdeka in Irian Jaya
Research Article| October 01 1985 The Organisasi Papua Merdeka in Irian Jaya: Continuity and Change in Papua New Guinea's Relations with Indonesia Ralph R. Premdas Ralph R. Premdas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1956) 25 (10): 1055–1074. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644181 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebo…
Guyana
Elections and Political Campaigns in a Racially Bifurcated State
In democratic, integrated political systems characterized by a sharing of fundamental social values and "primitive beliefs" among the population, elections serve a salutary purpose. They not only reaffirm the commitment and involvement of the citizen to the prevailing political system by the ritual act of voting participation, but simultaneously legitimize the means and processes by which political values are authoritatively allocated (Milnor, 19…
The Rise of the First Mass-Based Multi-Racial Party in Guyana
(1974). The Rise of the First Mass-Based Multi-Racial Party in Guyana. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 20, No. 3-4, pp. 5-20
Papua New Guinea
Research Article| December 01 1975 Papua New Guinea: Internal Problems of Rapid Political Change Ralph R. Premdas Ralph R. Premdas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1946) 15 (12): 1054–1076. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643584 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite I…
Secession and Political Change
Papua New Guinea in 1976
PRIME MINISTER MICHAEL SOMARE'S visit to the People's Republic of China in October 1976 was fraught equally with opportunities and dangers. The opportunities were attractive. Heavily dependent on Australia for aid and trade,' PNG found itself one year after independence tied to the high cost of Australian products, and an importer of a 15 to 20% inflation rate. Somare had indicated in a seminal address outlining PNG's foreign policy aspirations t…
Secessionist Politics in Papua New Guinea
N SEPTEMBER i6, 1975 New Guinea (PNG) obtained its independence from Australia. Previously had been Australian territory, acquired in i906, whereas New Guinea had been a U.N. Trust Territory (and formerly a Mandate of the League of Nations) under the control of Australia. During World War II, and New Guinea were jointly administered by Australia and in I949 this arrangement was continued until 1975 when the two legally separate entities were gran…
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea in 1977
THE 1977 GENERAL elections in Papua New Guinea (PNG) were the first since independence was granted by Australia on September 16, 1975. Many observers had predicted that anarchy, bloodshed, and general instability would soon follow. Several indicators were very suggestive of this outcome. The country's 700 linguistic groups are not integrated notwithstanding claims by the emerging local intelligentsia that a Melanesian 'Way binds the population in…
Elections in Fiji
Guyana
Papua New Guinea 1978
THE YEAR 1978 has been the most turbulent since Papua New Guinea (PNG) gained independence in 1975. Massive internal and external pressures converged on the new government elected in July 1977, leading to the submission of parliamentary votes of no confidence against the ruling Somare-Chan coalition partnership. The internal pressures were created substantially because of widespread popular feelings that corruption in the public service was becom…
Papua New Guinea-Indonesian Relations over Irian Jaya
THE BORDER SEPARATING West Irian (Irian Jaya) from Papua New Guinea (PNG) has been a continuing source of irritation ever since the Indonesians acquired control of the Western half of the island of New Guinea from the Dutch in 1962. A persistent West Irianese resistance movement has organized military action against Indonesian soldiers and installations using the PNG side of the border as both a base and a sanctuary. Called the Organisasi Papua M…
Papua New Guinea 1979
Research Article| January 01 1980 Papua New Guinea 1979: A Regime under Siege Ralph R. Premdas Ralph R. Premdas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1951) 20 (1): 94–99. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644011 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site …
The Solomon Islands
Guyana
Many communally divided postcolonial states rely almost exclusively upon an effective machinery of control to ensure political order. This has stemmed from two factors: (1) unrestrained communal competition for votes; and (2) inheritance of a highly centralized state apparatus. The first condition has tended to politicize sectional cleavages, exacerbating distrust (Premdas, 1972: 19-20). Without a body of shared values in the state, protection of…
Race, ideology, and power in Guyana
The Solomon Islands
National Elections in Papua New Guinea
Research Article| August 01 1983 National Elections in Papua New Guinea: The Return of Pangu to Power Ralph R. Premdas; Ralph R. Premdas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Jeffrey S. Steeves Jeffrey S. Steeves Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1954) 23 (8): 991–1006. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644268 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables …
Decentralization and Development in Melanesia
The Organisasi Papua Merdeka in Irian Jaya
Research Article| October 01 1985 The Organisasi Papua Merdeka in Irian Jaya: Continuity and Change in Papua New Guinea's Relations with Indonesia Ralph R. Premdas Ralph R. Premdas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1956) 25 (10): 1055–1074. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644181 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebo…
Ethnic Preference and Public Policy in Developing States
Papua new Guinea's border relations with Indonesia
Papua New Guinea in 1985
Research Article| February 01 1986 Papua New Guinea in 1985: The Tenth Anniversary of Independence Ralph R. Premdas Ralph R. Premdas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1957) 26 (2): 196–206. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644455 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ic…
Melanesian socialism
Vanuatu
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