Securing Village Life

Securing Village Life
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Publisher : ANU E Press
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 9781922144850
ISBN-13 : 1922144851
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Securing Village Life by : Scott MacWilliam

SECURING VILLAGE LIFE: DEVELOPMENT IN LATE COLONIAL PAPUA NEW GUINEA examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern idea of development. Australian officials emphasised the importance of bringing development for both the colony of Papua and the United Nations Trust Territory of New Guinea. The principal form that development took involved securing smallholders against the tendencies of other forms of capitalist development that might have separated households from land. In order to make household occupation of their holdings more secure and at higher standards of living, the colonial administration coordinated and supervised increases in production of crops and other agricultural produce. Contrary to suggestions that colonial policy and practice ignored indigenous agriculture and concentrated on plantation crops grown by international firms and expatriate owner-occupiers, the study shows how the main focus was instead upon increasing smallholder output for immediate consumption as well as for local and international markets. Simultaneously development stimulated increases in consumption, including of goods produced through manufacturing processes and imported into the colony. Only as Independence approached was the pre-eminence of the earlier focus upon smallholders weakened. In part the change occurred due to the political advance of the indigenous capitalist class and their allies seeking to extend their base in largeholding agriculture and related commercial activities. This advance and the uncertainty over which form of development would prevail once indigenes held state power in post-colonial Papua New Guinea stood in marked contrast to the definite direction pursued under the colonial administration of the 1950s and early 1960s.

Harvesting Development

Harvesting Development
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Publisher : NIAS Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 8787062917
ISBN-13 : 9788787062916
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Harvesting Development by : Karl Benediktsson

This work addresses the global-local tension evident in much work on development issues, through the example of fresh food markets in Papua New Guinea. A key feature of the book is the author's interweaving of theoretical constructs with a detailed ethnography of marketing networks, at the rural village and the urban market-place, as well as in the spaces in between. It shows the rural community not as an isolated universe, but as consisting of dynamic linkages and networks which extend way beyond the locality. At the same time, local actors with their own agendas and interpretations of the meta-narrative of development are shown to be crucially important for shaping the outcome of the market integration process.

Gangs and Youth Subcultures

Gangs and Youth Subcultures
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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 141282432X
ISBN-13 : 9781412824323
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis Gangs and Youth Subcultures by : Kayleen M. Hazlehurst

Despite nearly a century of scholarly inquiry into street gangs and youth subcultures, no single work systematically reflects on comparative international experiences with gangs. Gangs and Youth Subcultures takes up this challenge. Kayleen Hazlehurst and Cameron Hazlehurst argue that theories of gang behavior in immigrant communities and the influence of transnational crime syndicates are better tested in more than one host society. Similar phenomena would be better understood if placed in a comparative context. To this purpose, the editors assembled expert scholars and policy advisers from North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australasia. Gangs and Youth Subcultures lays the ground-work for an explanation of why gangs continue to grow in strength and influence, and why they have spread to remote locations. This book will interest scholars and teachers of criminology and sociology, justice system administrators, as well as law enforcement officers and youth workers internationally.

Language, Education, and Development

Language, Education, and Development
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : 0198239661
ISBN-13 : 9780198239666
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Language, Education, and Development by : Suzanne Romaine

This book examines some of the changes that are taking place in Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin, as it becomes the native language of the younger generation of rural and urban speakers.

Pangu Returns to Power

Pangu Returns to Power
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Publisher : Conran Octopus
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015017011456
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Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Pangu Returns to Power by : Peter King

Examines the political background to the 1982 elections; transverses such campaign issues as corruption and extravagance in government, relations ith Indonesia, divisions in the ruling coalition and party swapping; and, analyses the national election result and its aftermath in Pangu's parliamentary triumph of August 1982.

Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development

Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 490
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ISBN-10 : 9780824861209
ISBN-13 : 0824861205
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development by : Paul James

Papua New Guinea is going through a crisis: A concentration on conventional approaches to development, including an unsustainable reliance on mining, forestry, and foreign aid, has contributed to the country’s slow decline since independence in 1975. Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development attempts to address problems and gaps in the literature on development and develop a new qualitative conception of community sustainability informed by substantial and innovative research in Papua New Guinea. In this context, sustainability is conceived in terms that include not just practices tied to economic development. It also informs questions of wellbeing and social integration, community-building, social support, and infrastructure renewal. In short, the concern with sustainability here entails undertaking an analysis of how communities are sustained through time, how they cohere and change, rather than being constrained within discourses and models of development. From another angle, this project presents an account of community sustainability detached from instrumental concerns with economic development. Contributors address questions such as: What are the stories and histories through which people respond to their nation’s development? What is the everyday social environment of groups living in highly diverse areas (migrant settlements, urban villages, remote communities)? They seek to contribute to a creative and dynamic grass-roots response to the demands of everyday life and local-global pressures. While the overdeveloped world faces an intersecting crisis created by global climate change and financial instability, Papua New Guinea, with all its difficulties, still has the basis for responding to this manifold predicament. Its secret lies in what has been seen as its weakness: underdeveloped economies and communities, where people still maintain sustainable relations to each other and the natural world.

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 374
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ISBN-10 : 9781134938322
ISBN-13 : 1134938322
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Papua New Guinea by : John Connell

Since 1975 the economy of Papua New Guinea has focused on mineral, rather than agricultural production as previously. This is the first book to look at these changes in a complex, rapidly evolving nation from an economic perspective.

The End of the ‘Asian Model’?

The End of the ‘Asian Model’?
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9789027299826
ISBN-13 : 902729982X
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The End of the ‘Asian Model’? by : Holger Henke

With the economic crisis in Asia, which unfolded in recent years, the development ‘model’ on which the phenomenal earlier success of several countries in the region was built requires increasing scrutiny. This anthology questions the validity of the notion promoted by some observers and international financial organizations that there is a universally applicable model of industrialization common to Asian countries. A number of senior and highly regarded Asia specialists are taking a critical look at the various development experiences of several (and some often neglected) Asian countries and evaluate their experiences in a comparative perspective. Comparing the analyses of countries such as Mongolia, the Pacific Islands, or Sri Lanka with Singapore, South Korea and other countries of the region leads the editors of this volume to the conclusion that the fashionable talk about a ‘model’ is not justified and that the picture is much more complex.

State and Society in Papua New Guinea, 2001–2021

State and Society in Papua New Guinea, 2001–2021
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Publisher : ANU Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9781760465216
ISBN-13 : 1760465216
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis State and Society in Papua New Guinea, 2001–2021 by : R. J. May

In a previous volume, State and Society in Papua New Guinea: The First Twenty-Five Years (2001, reprinted by ANU E Press in 2004), a collection of papers by the author published between 1971 and 2001 was put together to mark Papua New Guinea’s first 25 years as an independent state. This volume presents a collection of papers written between 2001 and 2021, which update the story of political and social development in Papua New Guinea in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The chapters cover a range of topics, from an evaluation of proposals for political reform in the early 2000s, a review of the discussion of ‘failing states’ in the island Pacific and the shift to limited preferential voting in 2007, to a detailed account of political developments from the move against Sir Michael Somare in 2011 to the election of Prime Minister Marape and his performance to 2022. There are also chapters on language policy, external and internal security, religious fundamentalism and national identity, and the sustainability of economic growth.

From Beijing to Port Moresby

From Beijing to Port Moresby
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 403
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ISBN-10 : 9781134388660
ISBN-13 : 1134388667
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis From Beijing to Port Moresby by : Virginia Domingues

Essays in this volume focus on Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, and the People's Republic of China as sites rife with discursive complexity. From small to large, young to old, former colony to former colonial power, these six examples do well to represent situated voices and cultural values meted out in a larger "global" space.