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AUTOR(ES) Knut M. Rio , K. Rio , Eric Lee-Mäder , Xerces Society.
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) Universitetet i Bergen
ANO 2011
TIPO Book
PERIÓDICO Oceania
ISSN 0029-8077
E-ISSN 1834-4461
DOI 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2011.tb00093.x
CITAÇÕES 9
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-14
MD5 763C5742E90D7D16BD56B20C905316C4
MD5 e5cb792074816fb94a7c161a960984fa

Resumo

In Vanuatu, the police force has in recent years been strengthened by foreign government aid. AusAid and NZAid are heavily involved inside the police force, seeking to create 'good governance' and to shape Vanuatu's national developments. However, these measures also coincide with some other unexpected developments. Recent cases of violence, and especially of sorcery, have led the police to intervene in a quest for moral order. Police are becoming part of the articulation of new occult understandings of wealth and power. These developments are traced back partly to the history of colonial governance and the idea of righteous violence, but also to current restructurings of the Vanuatu state and growing Christian conceptions of Vanuatu as a holy nation.

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