[ETAN-key] Support book about West Papua

[John M Miller]

Support Eben Kirksey's project, Freedom in 
Entangled Worlds, a book about West Papua

Learn more about this project on Kickstarter:
http://tinyurl.com/entangled-worlds

The people of West Papua first raised their 
independence banner, the Morning Star flag, on 
December 1st, 1961. They were then Dutch colonial 
subjects and were allured by the dreams of 
national freedom sweeping the planet like 
wildfire at the time. Two weeks later the 
Indonesian military invaded and began what was arguably genocide.

With similar conflicts raging in other parts of 
the globe—Tibet, Palestine, and Darfur—West 
Papuans have had difficulty in getting the 
international community to take notice. The 
reaction of many people upon hearing about yet 
another under-reported and asymmetrical war, is to simply turn away.

Companies from the United States and Britain, 
namely BP and a gold mining giant called Freeport 
McMoRan, are profiting from this military 
occupation and are invested in preserving the status quo.

Duke University Press has just formally committed 
to publish Freedom in Entangled Worlds, a book 
about West Papua that I have been working on for 
some ten years. This book features indigenous 
Papuan leaders who have surprising visions of 
hope. The $500 that Kickstarter has already 
helped me raise (as of March 3rd) will enable me 
to print photographs of key Papuan figures in the 
book--remarkable people who have exceeded the conditions of their exploitation.

The form of books is evolving quickly these days, 
and I would like to keep up with the times to 
include on-line audio and images. An additional 
$500 would enable me to work with professional 
web-designers to broadcast the voices of Papuan visionaries.

While in West Papua I conducted interviews with 
people who told me uncanny tales--stories that 
pushed the bounds of realism and realistic 
possibility. I would like to audio podcast a 
selection of these stories, to share the voices 
of indigenous intellectuals who taught me how to 
find freedom while stuck within a seemingly impossible situation.

Learn more about this project on Kickstarter:
http://tinyurl.com/entangled-worlds

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S. Eben Kirksey, Ph.D.
Mellon Fellow
Science Studies, Room 5109
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
Direct-line: +1.212.817.7094
Cell: +1.831.600.5937
Web: http://ebenkirksey.blogspot.com/