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Navigating the Future : An Ethnography of Change in Papua New Guinea by Ms Monica Minnegal; Mr Peter D. Dwyer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Navigating the Future : An Ethnography of Change in Papua New Guinea about?

Navigating the Future draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Kubo people and their neighbours, in a remote area of Papua New Guinea, to explore how worlds are reconfigured as people become increasingly conscious of, and seek to draw into their own lives, wealth and power that had previously lain beyond their horizons.- In the context of a major resource extraction project—the Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas (PNG LNG) Project–taking shape in the mountains to the north, the people in this area are actively reimagining their social world. -This book describes changes in practice that result, tracing shifts in the ways people relate to the land, to each other and to outsiders, and the histories of engagement that frame those changes. Inequalities are emerging between individuals in access to paid work, between groups in potential for claiming future royalties, and between generations in access to information. -As people at the village of Suabi strive to make themselves visible to the state and to petroleum companies, as legal entities entitled to receive benefits from the PNG LNG Project, they are drawing new boundaries around sets of people and around land and declaring

Who reads Navigating the Future : An Ethnography of Change in Papua New Guinea?

Author

Ms Monica Minnegal; Mr Peter D. Dwyer

Publisher

Australian National University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781760461232

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Anthropology, Economics