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The New Port Moresby: Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship, the book adds to an emerging literature on cities in the “Global South” as sites of oppression, but also resistance, aspiration, and activism. Taking an intersectional feminist approach, the book draws on a decade of research conducted among the educated professional women of Port Moresby, offering unique insight into class transitions and the perspectives of this small but significant cohort. The New Port Moresby expands the scope of research and writing about gendered experiences in Port Moresby, moving beyond the idea that the city is an exclusively hostile place for women. Without discounting the problems of uneven development, the author argues that the city’s new places offer women a degree of freedom and autonomy in a city predominantly characterized by fear and restriction. In doing so, it offers an ethnographically rich perspective on the interaction between the “global” and the “local” and what this might mean for feminism and the advancement of equity in the Pacific and beyond. The New Port Moresby will find an audience among anthropologists, particularly those interested in the urban Pacific, feminist geographers committed to expanding research to include cities in the Global South and development theorists interested in understanding the roles played by educated elites in less economically developed contexts. There have been few ethnographic monographs about Port Moresby and those that do exist have tended to marginalize or ignore gender. Yet as feminist geographers make clear, women and men are positioned differently in the world and their relationship to the places in which they live is also different. The book has no predecessors and stands alone in the Pacific as an account of this kind. As such, The New Port Moresby should be read by scholars and students of diverse disciplines interested in urbanization, gender, and the Pacific.
Women --- Social conditions --- Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) --- Social conditions.
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Music --- Papua New Guinea --- Congresses --- 78.37 --- 78.16 Port Moresby 1997
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What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creat
Prisons --- Prison psychology --- Prison discipline --- Prisoners --- Convicts --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Persons --- Discipline, Prison --- Penal discipline --- Discipline --- Dungeons --- Gaols --- Penitentiaries --- Imprisonment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Psychology, Prison --- Correctional psychology --- Social conditions --- Inmates --- Psychology --- Bomana Major Central Area Correction Institution (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) --- Papua New Guinea. --- Bomana Prison (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) --- Social conditions.
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Australian goldminers were among the first white men to have sustained contact with Papua New Guineans. Some Papua New Guineans welcomed them, worked for them, traded with them and learnt their skills and soon were mining on their own account. Others met them with hostility, either by direct confrontation or by stealthy ambush. Many of the indigenous people and some miners were killed. The miners were dependent on the local people for labourers, guides, producers of food and women. Some women lived willingly in the miners’ camps, a few were legally married, and some were raped. Working conditions for Papua New Guineans on the claims were mixed; some being well treated by the miners, others being poorly housed and fed, ill-treated, and subject to devastating epidemics. Conditions were rough, not only for them but for the diggers too. This book, republished in its original format, shows the differences in the experience of various Papua New Guinean communities which encountered the miners and tries to explain these differences. It is a graphic description of what happens when people from vastly different cultures meet. The author has drawn on documentary sources and interviews with the local people to produce, for the first time, a lively history.
E-books --- Gold mines and mining --- Gold extraction (Mining) --- Gold fields --- Gold mining --- Gold rush --- Gold rushes --- Goldfields --- Goldmining --- Goldrush --- Goldrushes --- Sites, Gold mining --- History. --- Gold discoveries --- Mines and mineral resources --- Gold miners --- Gold prospectors --- Prospectors, Gold --- Miners --- australia --- gold mining --- papua new guinea --- social history --- Binandere language --- HMPNGS Lakekamu --- Misima Island --- Port Moresby
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An enthralling exploration of the biologically richest island on Earth, featuring more than 200 spectacular color images by award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim LamanIn this beautiful book, Bruce Beehler, a renowned author and expert on New Guinea, and award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim Laman take the reader on an unforgettable journey through the natural and cultural wonders of the world's grandest island. Skillfully combining a wealth of information, a descriptive and story-filled narrative, and more than 200 stunning color photographs, the book unlocks New Guinea's remarkable secrets like never before.Lying between the Equator and Australia's north coast, and surrounded by the richest coral reefs on Earth, New Guinea is the world's largest, highest, and most environmentally complex tropical island—home to rainforests with showy rhododendrons, strange and colorful orchids, tree-kangaroos, spiny anteaters, ingenious bowerbirds, and spectacular birds of paradise. New Guinea is also home to more than a thousand traditional human societies, each with its own language and lifestyle, and many of these tribes still live in isolated villages and serve as stewards of the rainforests they inhabit.Accessible and authoritative, New Guinea provides a comprehensive introduction to the island's environment, animals, plants, and traditional rainforest cultures. Individual chapters cover the island's history of exploration; geology; climate and weather; biogeography; plantlife; insects, spiders, and other invertebrates; freshwater fishes; snakes, lizards, and frogs; birdlife; mammals; paleontology; paleoanthropology; cultural and linguistic diversity; surrounding islands and reefs; the pristine forest of the Foja Mountains; village life; and future sustainability.Complete with informative illustrations and a large, detailed map, New Guinea offers an enchanting account of the island's unequalled natural and cultural treasures.
Natural history --- New Guinea --- New Guinea. --- Social life and customs. --- 60 Minutes. --- Aru Islands. --- Bensbach Village. --- Cenderawasih Bay Islands. --- D’Entrecasteaux Islands. --- Indonesia travel guide. --- Indonesian archipelago. --- Louisiade Islands. --- New Guinea guide. --- New Guinea travel guide. --- Port Moresby. --- Raja Ampat Islands. --- Rondon Ridge. --- Schouten Islands. --- Trans Fly. --- Trobriand Islands. --- Varirata National Park. --- Vitiaz Strait Islands. --- Woodlark Islands. --- amphibians. --- biodiversity. --- bird watching. --- conservation. --- echidnas. --- exotic birds. --- gift for bird lovers. --- gift for bird watchers. --- gift for nature lovers. --- guide to Papua New Guinea. --- herpetology. --- introduction. --- marine life. --- natural history. --- ornithology. --- pythons. --- reptiles. --- travel guide for Papua New Guinea. --- tropical rain forest.
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Papua New Guinea is one of the many former British Commonwealth colonies which maintain the criminalisation of the sexual activities of two groups, despite the fact that the sex takes place between consenting adults in private: sellers of sex and males who have sex with males. The English common law system was imposed on the colonies with little regard for the social regulation and belief systems of the colonised, and in most instances, was retained and developed post-Independence, regardless of the infringements of human rights involved. This book is an exceptional contribution to our knowledge of the nexus between the criminal law and negative attitudes of society, and what effects criminalization has on the social lives of prostitutes and males who have sex with males, and whether these effects might provide evidence to support the argument for law reform.
Homosexuality -- Law and legislation -- Papua New Guinea. --- Homosexuality -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea. --- Papua New Guinea -- Social conditions. --- Prostitution -- Law and legislation. --- Prostitution -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea. --- Sexual consent -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea. --- Sexual consent --- Prostitution --- Homosexuality --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Social aspects --- Law and legislation --- Law and legislation. --- Papua New Guinea --- Social conditions. --- Same-sex attraction --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- Papuʼah Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Giniyah ha-Ḥadashah --- Papua Niugini --- Papua-Neuguinea --- PNG --- Territory of Papua and New Guinea --- Papua Nugini --- Independent State of Papua New Guinea --- Papua Nuova Guinea --- Papua Nova Gvineja --- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée --- Papua Niu Gini --- Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini --- PNG (Papua New Guinea) --- Papua-Uusi-Guinea --- Papua Nya Guinea --- パプアニューギニア --- Papua Nyū Ginia --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Criminal law --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- Consent (Law) --- Sexual ethics --- New Guinea (Territory) --- Papua --- Sex work --- papua new guinea --- pacific --- hiv --- sex --- criminalisation --- Port Moresby
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