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Eben Kirksey first went to West Papua, the Indonesian-controlled half of New Guinea, as an exchange student in 1998. His later study of West Papua's resistance to the Indonesian occupiers and the forces of globalization morphed as he discovered that collaboration, rather than resistance, was the primary strategy of this dynamic social movement. Accompanying indigenous activists to Washington, London, and the offices of the oil giant BP, Kirksey saw the revolutionaries' knack for getting inside institutions of power and building coalitions with unlikely allies, including many Indonesians. He discovered that the West Papuans' pragmatic activism was based on visions of dramatic transformations on coming horizons, of a future in which they would give away their natural resources in grand humanitarian gestures, rather than watch their homeland be drained of timber, gold, copper, and natural gas. During a lengthy, brutal occupation, West Papuans have harbored a messianic spirit and channeled it in surprising directions. Kirksey studied West Papua's movement for freedom while a broad-based popular uprising gained traction from 1998 until 2008. Blending ethnographic research with indigenous parables, historical accounts, and narratives of his own experiences, he argues that seeking freedom in entangled worlds requires negotiating complex interdependencies.

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Title Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power
Author Eben Kirksey
Binding Hardback
Pages 328
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Duke University Press
Publication date 2012-03
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
ISBN 9780822351221 / 0822351226
Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
Dimensions 9.25 x 6.12 x 1 in (23.50 x 15.54 x 2.54 cm)
Category Archaeology / Anthropology
Library of Congress subjects Indonesia - Politics and government - 1998-, Papua (Indonesia) - Politics and government
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011048244
Dewey Decimal Code 995.104

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Choice, 10/01/2012, Page 0

About the author

Eben Kirksey is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

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