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Physical isolation and failed socialization on Pitcairn Island: A warning for the future?
| Title: | Physical isolation and failed socialization on Pitcairn Island: A warning for the future? |
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| Authors: | Si Sheppard |
| Source: | Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies. 2:21-38 |
| Publisher Information: | Intellect, 2014. |
| Publication Year: | 2014 |
| Description: | In this essay I will attempt to account for the failure of state formation on Pitcairn Island by the Bounty mutineers in 1790. I will track the course of the mutiny itself, the settlement on Pitcairn, and the ensuing collapse of the polity. I will list the proximate reasons for this outcome, including gender imbalance, a racially stratified social order and the absence of representative conflict resolution mechanisms. I conclude that the ultimate cause for the anarchic quality of life on Pitcairn is the distinctive contribution of its effectively perfect geopolitical isolation. This historical exemplar should serve as a warning to the would-be founding fathers of the future if the next wave of human colonization commences with the possible establishment of settlements in the even greater isolation of outer space. |
| Document Type: | Article Other literature type |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 2050-4047 2050-4039 |
| DOI: | 10.1386/nzps.2.1.21_1 |
| Access URL: | http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=2050-4039&volume=2&issue=1&spage=21 |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....85ddff2e8f420d28d9beadc0e420b599 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| ISSN: | 20504047 20504039 |
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| DOI: | 10.1386/nzps.2.1.21_1 |