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The Hau of Other Peoples' Gifts: Land Owning and Taking in Turn-of-the-Millennium Fiji

Vassar College

Abstract.

Arguing for historicity in the study of globalization, this article juxtaposes an account of the 2000 takeover of the Fiji water bottling plant with an account of post-coups Fiji government proposals to spend national revenues (Fiji citizens' taxes) to purchase shares to be owned by ethnic Fijians. These recent events, involving a corporation purveying a global commodity and investment practices once colonially imported to Fiji, have been carried out with much objectification of the local, of indigenous ownership, and of place belonging as a basis for rights. The article finds ironies and inequities in takeover and shareholding practices as tactics for the establishment of rights, social justice, or reconciliation in the nation-state of Fiji.

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