Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea.

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...

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Superior document:Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs
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Place / Publishing House:Canberra : : ANU Press,, 2022.
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs
Physical Description:1 online resource (210 pages)
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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