Capital and inequality in rural Papua New Guinea /

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Imprint:	Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2022.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 210 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph ; 16 Asia-Pacific environment monograph ; 16.
Subject:	Economic history. Rural conditions. Papua New Guinea -- Economic conditions. Papua New Guinea -- Rural conditions. Papua New Guinea. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13480353

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Other authors / contributors:	Beer, Bettina, editor. Schwoerer, Tobias, editor. Australian National University Press, publisher.
ISBN:	9781760465193 1760465194 9781760465186 1760465186
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF 5.9MB
Language / Script:	Licensed under Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
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; it asks what is involved when large-scale capital and its agents begin to become significant nodes in hitherto more local social networks. Its contributors describe the processes initiated by the (planned) presence of extractive industries that tend to reinforce already existing inequalities, or to create and socially entrench novel inequalities. The studies largely focus on the beginnings of such transformations, when hopes for social improvement are highest and economic inequalities still incipient. They show how those hopes, and the encompassing socio-political transformations characteristic of this phase, act to produce far-reaching impacts on ways of life, setting precedents for and embedding the social distribution of gains and losses. The chapters address a range of settings: the PNG Liquid Natural Gas pipeline; newly established eucalyptus and oil palm plantations; a planned copper-gold mine; and one in which rumours of development diffuse through a rural social network as yet unaffected by any actual or planned capital investments. The analyses all demonstrate that questions around land, leadership and information are central to the current and future social profile of local inequality in all its facets.
Other form:	Print version: Capital and inequality in rural Papua New Guinea. Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2021 9781760465186

Table of Contents:

ch.1. Capital and inequality in rural Papua New Guinea / Bettina Beer and Tobias Schwoerer
ch.2. Plantations, incorporated land groups and emerging inequalities among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea / Tobias Schwoerer
ch.3. Factional competition, legal conflict and emerging organisational stratification around a prospective mine in Papua New Guinea / Willem Church
ch.4. The Broker: inequality, loss and the PNG LNG Project / Monica Minnegal and Peter D. Dwyer
ch.5. 'Em i stap bilong en yet': not-sharing, social inequalities and changing ethical life among Wampar / Bettina Beer
ch.6. Absent development as cultural economy: resource extraction and enchained inequity in Papua New Guinea / Bruce Knauft
ch.7. Reflecting on resource-driven inequalities / Glenn Banks

Capital and inequality in rural Papua New Guinea /

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