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.
Author(s): Bettina Beer, Tobias Schwoerer
Series: Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs, 16
Publisher: ANU Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 210
City: Canberra
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
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