1.Culture, morality, modernity, and the transformation of social imaginaries -- Part I. Tradition and transformation in a non-colonised state: Thailand -- 2. Continuities and crisis -- 3. Dictatorship and democracy: Competing social imaginaries -- Part II. Tradition and transformation in a non-colonised state: Spain -- 4. Old orders and new: The nuns as historical actors -- 5. 'Quiero ser protagonista de mi vida' : 'I want to be the main actor in my own life' -- Part III. Colonised people and the nation-state: Aboriginal Australia -- 6. Ordinary people enduring extraordinary things -- 7. A winnin' battle -- Part IV. Modernity and human rights -- 8. Durban 2001, the United Nations World Conference against Racism -- 9. Human rights and the promise of a good life
Summary
This book is a story. It's a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Thai factory workers in the 1970s; Spanish nuns in the 1980s; Aboriginal people in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia from the 1980s to the present
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Also available online. Address as at 17/02/2014 :http://press.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/whole1.pdf
