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Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia-Pacific Environment MonographsPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (210 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760465193
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New GuineaOnline resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figure 2.1 Map of Wampar villages in the Markham River Valley. -- Figure 2.2 Landscape in the Markham Valley. -- Figure 2.3 PNG Biomass eucalyptus plantations. -- Figure 2.4 Map of prospective plantations. -- Figure 2.5 Presentation of gifts to representatives of PNG Biomass. -- Figure 2.6 Boundary survey for oil palm plantations using GPS equipment. -- Figure 3.1 Approximate areas of the Wampar and adjacent language groups. -- Table 3.1 Key 1980s court cases pertaining to the Wafi-Golpu area. -- Table 3.2 Legal events pertaining to the Piu SABL. -- Table 3.3 Legal events pertaining to the Wafi-Golpu SLTC. -- Figure 4.1 Map showing Febi and Kubo territories and location of Juha (Petroleum Development Licence area PDL 9). -- Figure 5.1 Gurum's savings book for the WMBL. -- Figure 5.2 Formal birthday party invitation card. -- Figure 6.1 Untrammelled Gebusi rainforest, with Mt Sisa (left) and Mt Bosavi (far right) in the distance. -- Figure 6.2 Abandoned government house at Nomad Station, 2013. -- Figure 6.3 A Gebusi man wearing ragged clothes, 2017. -- Figure 6.4 Schoolboy drawing in 1998 by Tony Semo-of aspiring to be a successful heavy equipment operator at the Ok Tedi mine. -- Figure 6.5 Enemies of the slain Bedamini sorcery suspect pose with their weapons as proud killers. -- 1. Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea -- 2. Plantations, Incorporated Land Groups and Emerging Inequalities Among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea -- 3. Factional Competition, Legal Conflict and Emerging Organisational Stratification Around a Prospective Mine in Papua New Guinea -- 4. The Broker: Inequality, Loss and the PNG LNG Project -- 5. 'Em i Stap Bilong En Yet': Not‑Sharing, Social Inequalities and Changing Ethical Life Among Wampar.
6. Absent Development as Cultural Economy: Resource Extraction and Enchained Inequity in Papua New Guinea -- 7. Reflecting on Resource-Driven Inequalities.
Summary: That large-scale capital drives inequality in states like Papua New Guinea is clear enough; how it does so is less clear. This edited collection presents studies of the local contexts of capital-intensive projects in the mining, oil and gas, and agro-industry sectors in rural and semi-rural parts of Papua New Guinea.
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Intro -- Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figure 2.1 Map of Wampar villages in the Markham River Valley. -- Figure 2.2 Landscape in the Markham Valley. -- Figure 2.3 PNG Biomass eucalyptus plantations. -- Figure 2.4 Map of prospective plantations. -- Figure 2.5 Presentation of gifts to representatives of PNG Biomass. -- Figure 2.6 Boundary survey for oil palm plantations using GPS equipment. -- Figure 3.1 Approximate areas of the Wampar and adjacent language groups. -- Table 3.1 Key 1980s court cases pertaining to the Wafi-Golpu area. -- Table 3.2 Legal events pertaining to the Piu SABL. -- Table 3.3 Legal events pertaining to the Wafi-Golpu SLTC. -- Figure 4.1 Map showing Febi and Kubo territories and location of Juha (Petroleum Development Licence area PDL 9). -- Figure 5.1 Gurum's savings book for the WMBL. -- Figure 5.2 Formal birthday party invitation card. -- Figure 6.1 Untrammelled Gebusi rainforest, with Mt Sisa (left) and Mt Bosavi (far right) in the distance. -- Figure 6.2 Abandoned government house at Nomad Station, 2013. -- Figure 6.3 A Gebusi man wearing ragged clothes, 2017. -- Figure 6.4 Schoolboy drawing in 1998 by Tony Semo-of aspiring to be a successful heavy equipment operator at the Ok Tedi mine. -- Figure 6.5 Enemies of the slain Bedamini sorcery suspect pose with their weapons as proud killers. -- 1. Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea -- 2. Plantations, Incorporated Land Groups and Emerging Inequalities Among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea -- 3. Factional Competition, Legal Conflict and Emerging Organisational Stratification Around a Prospective Mine in Papua New Guinea -- 4. The Broker: Inequality, Loss and the PNG LNG Project -- 5. 'Em i Stap Bilong En Yet': Not‑Sharing, Social Inequalities and Changing Ethical Life Among Wampar.

6. Absent Development as Cultural Economy: Resource Extraction and Enchained Inequity in Papua New Guinea -- 7. Reflecting on Resource-Driven Inequalities.

That large-scale capital drives inequality in states like Papua New Guinea is clear enough; how it does so is less clear. This edited collection presents studies of the local contexts of capital-intensive projects in the mining, oil and gas, and agro-industry sectors in rural and semi-rural parts of Papua New Guinea.

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