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Author : Archibald Grenfell Price
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Challenge of New Guinea written by Archibald Grenfell Price and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sinclair Dinnen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824822804
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Law and Order in a Weak State written by Sinclair Dinnen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years after independence, Papua New Guinea is beset by social, economic, and political problems: poverty and inequality, a young and expanding population, a stagnant economy, corruption, and rising crime. The state has not only failed to contain these problems but has become progressively implicated in their persistence. Escalating levels of violence and lawlessness are seen by many as the most serious challenge facing the young country. This book examines these problems of order in light of Papua New Guinea’s remarkable social diversity and the impact of rapid and pervasive processes of change. Three original and strategic case studies involving urban gangs, mining security, and election violence form the core of the work. Each case study looks at particular forms of conflict, and the responses these engender, across different socioeconomic contexts and geographic locations. Empirical data are analyzed through a common framework that employs material, cultural and institutional perspectives, allowing readers to view the three cases through different theoretical prisms, identify linkages between them, and, in the process, build a larger picture of the post-colonial social order. Law and Order in a Weak State charts not only the problems of crime and lawlessness in Papua New Guinea but also the possibilities for constructive, pragmatic solutions. It will be of great interest to scholars, aid and policy officials, and others concerned with understanding the social complexities and challenges of contemporary Papua New Guinea.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 9292572032
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Challenges of Doing Business in Papua New Guinea written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes the results of an extensive survey of the business community on the challenges of doing business in Papua New Guinea. It finds that despite some improvement in the business environment following a similar survey conducted in 2002, progress has been disappointing. Many of the issues identified then still have a negative impact on investment and entrepreneurship. To ensure that the current resource boom is translated into sustainable prosperity, substantial reform is needed.
Author : Wayne P. Rothgeb
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New Guinea Skies written by Wayne P. Rothgeb and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Squadron to shoot down a hundred Japanese planes, and Lieutenant Rothgeb's account is filled with harrowing clashes, including a fiery crash and a raid on Rabaul. New Guinea itself posed a challenge to pilots as well, with its menacing jungles, fetid swamps, and sudden storms closing in around the impassable mountains. Author Rothgeb also reveals the human side of squadron life: special encounters, VIP visitors, adventures on leave, romances formed and broken, battles.
Author : Jane Fajans
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226234441
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (344 download)
Download or read book They Make Themselves written by Jane Fajans and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-08-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations of anthropologists, the Baining people have presented a challenge, because of their apparent lack of cultural or social structure. This group of small-scale horticulturists seems devoid of the complex belief systems and social practices that characterize other traditional peoples of Papua New Guinea. Their daily existence is mundane and repetitive in the extreme, articulated by only the most elementary familial relationships and social connections. The routine of everyday life, however, is occasionally punctuated by stunningly beautiful festivals of masked dancers, which the Baining call play and to which they attribute no symbolic significance. In a new work sure to evoke considerable repercussions and debate in anthropological theory, Jane Fajans courageously takes on the "Baining Problem," arguing that the Baining define themselves not through intricate cosmologies or social networks, but through the meanings generated by their own productive and reproductive work.
Author : Michael Goddard
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857450956
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Out of Place written by Michael Goddard and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behaviour, not mental pathology. Moreover, their conception of the person did not recognise the same physical and mental categories that inform Western medical science, and psychiatry in particular was not officially introduced to PNG until the late 1950s. Its practitioners claimed that it could adequately accommodate the cultural variation among Melanesian societies. This book compares the intent and practice of transcultural psychiatry with Kakoli interpretations of, and responses to, madness, showing the reasons for their occasional recourse to psychiatric services. Episodes involving madness, as defined by the Kakoli themselves, are described in order to offer a context for the historical lifeworld and praxis of the community and raise fundamental questions about whether a culturally sensitive psychiatry is possible in the Melanesian context.
Author : Satyendra Singh
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981447181X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Handbook Of Business Practices And Growth In Emerging Markets written by Satyendra Singh and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Business Practices and Growth in Emerging Markets consists of a collection of specially commissioned chapters that describe the current business environment, organizational culture, consumer behavior, financial investment climate, and examples of best prevailing practices in emerging markets. It covers all the major functional areas of business — marketing, strategy, operations and finance — in all continents. The focus of each chapter is on the identification of different business issues in different emerging markets (including Asia, Africa and South America) and on the implementation of a proposed set of recommendations, using both qualitative and quantitative techniques to assist in decision-making and in improving organizational efficiency and effectiveness. Readers will also appreciate the multidimensional view of financial and non-financial performance measurement of businesses.Specifically, the goal of this research-based handbook is to provide a comprehensive guide for business students and managers by discussing a range of issues from the diverse emerging markets and enabling them to develop a strategic mindset for a market-oriented culture. Given the changing business dynamics, government policies and demands in industries, this handbook is both timely and topical.
Author : J.L. Gressit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400986327
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea written by J.L. Gressit and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. L. Gressitt New Guinea is a fantastic island, unique and fascinating. It is an area of incredible variety of geomorphology, biota, peoples, languages, history, tradi tions and cultures. Diversity is its prime characteristic, whatever the subject of interest. To a biogeographer it is tantalizing, as well as confusing or frustrating when trying to determine the history of its biota. To an ecologist, and to all biologists, it is a happy hunting ground of endless surprises and unanswered questions. To a conservationist it is like a dream come true, a "flash-back" of a few centuries, as well as a challenge for the future. New Guinea is so special that it is hard to compare it with other islands or tropical areas. It is something apart, with its very complicated history (chapters I: 2-4, II: 1-4, III: I, VI: I, 2). It is partly old but to a great extent very young, yet extremely rich and complex. It has biota of different sources - to such a degree that it is still disputed in this volume as to what Realm it belongs to: the Paleotropical or Notogaean (Australian); or what Region: Oriental, "Oceanic," Papuan or Australian. The terms Papuasian, Indo-Australian and Australasian also have been applied to the area.
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Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict to National and International Order in the 1990s, Geographic Perspectives written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Reed
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571816948
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Papua New Guinea's Last Place written by Adam Reed and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 creative as well as negative outcomes of detention, separation and loss. Instead of just coping, the prisoners in Papua New Guinea's Last Place find themselves drawing fresh critiques and new approaches to contemporary living.
Author : Julius Chan
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702257036
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Playing the Game written by Julius Chan and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘...a fascinating account of one of the most important figures in PNG's first 40 years of Independence.’ – Sean Dorney, journalistBorn on a remote island in Papua New Guinea to a migrant Chinese father and indigenous mother, Julius Chan overcame poverty, discrimination, and family tragedy to become one of Papua New Guinea’s longest-serving and most influential politicians.His 50-year career, including two terms as Prime Minister, encompasses a crucial period of Papua New Guinea’s history, particularly its coming of age from an Australian colony to a leading democratic nation in the South Pacific. Chan has played a significant role during these decades of political, economic and social change. Playing the Game offers unique insights into one of the world’s most ancient and complex tribal cultures. It also explores the vexed issues of increasing corruption, government failure, and the unprecedented exploitation of its precious natural resources.In the first memoir by a Papua New Guinean leader in forty years, Sir Julius Chan explores his decision in 1997 to hire a private military force, Sandline International, to quell the ongoing civil crisis in Bougainville. This controversial deal sparked worldwide outrage, cost Sir Julius the prime ministership and led to ten years in the political wilderness. He was re-elected as Governor of New Ireland in 2007, aged 68, a seat he has held ever since.Playing the Game is an authentic and compelling account of Chan’s private and political life, and offers a rare insight into how the modern nation of Papua New Guinea came to be, the vision and values it was founded on, and the extraordinary challenges it faces in the 21st century.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Front Lines written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Curry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317620569
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Migration, Land and Livelihoods written by George Curry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically and succinctly examines recent changes in land ownership, mobility and livelihoods in various Pacific island states, from East Timor to the Solomon Islands, where climate change, environmental change (including hazards of various origins), population growth and urbanization have contributed to new tensions and discords and resulted in complex structures of migration and resettlement. This has brought new and varied experiences of income and livelihood generation, and consequent reinterpretations of ‘modernity’ and ‘tradition’. In a series of detailed case studies this book traces various responses to such socio-economic changes both in how they are locally envisaged, as pressures on land have intensified, urban informal settlements and livelihoods have expanded and perceptions of identity and property rights have changed, and in national development policy responses. It offers valuable reflections on the complex balance between continuity and change, the tensions between social and economic development, the will to develop and the management of dissent and difference. This book was published as a special issue of Australian Geographer.
Author : Paige West
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351501
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive written by Paige West and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in far away places. She shows how coffee becomes a commodity, the different forms of labor involved, and the way that coffee shapes the lives and understandings of those who grow, process, export, sell and consume coffee.
Author : Emma Gilberthorpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317089707
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods written by Emma Gilberthorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an extended analysis of how resource extraction projects stimulate social, cultural and economic change in indigenous communities. Through a range of case studies, including open cast mining, artisanal mining, logging, deforestation, oil extraction and industrial fishing, the contributors explore the challenges highlighted in global debates on sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and climate change. The case studies are used to assess whether and how development processes might compete and conflict with the market objectives of multinational corporations and the organizational and moral principles of indigenous communities. Emphasizing the perspectives of directly-affected parties, the authors identify common patterns in the way in which extraction projects are conceptualized, implemented and perceived. The book provides a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the human environments where resource extraction takes place and its consequent impacts on local livelihoods. Its in-depth case studies underscore the need for increased social accountability in the planning and development of natural resource extraction projects.
Author : Ross Garnaut
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521483049
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Sustaining Export-Oriented Development written by Ross Garnaut and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1995, looks at the East Asian economies' post-war development and assesses the possibilities of transferring East Asian development elsewhere. Written and edited by economists, Sustaining Export-Oriented Development traces the changes in the thinking of policy makers and advisers about the policies required for economic development - especially the changed emphasis from import-substitution to outward-orientation which coincided with the East Asian economies' success. Several contributors focus on identifying the key factors in the growth of these dynamic economies. Others look at future constraints such as the environmental limits to growth and the sustainability of export growth in China. This book makes a significant contribution to the discussion of economic growth and development issues and will be of interest to those in economics, trade and aid, and others concerned with public policy.
Author : Anthony Payne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113523681X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Size and Survival written by Anthony Payne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comparative survey of the security problems faced by the small island and enclave developing states of the two major regions in the world characterised by the presence of such states - the Caribbean and the Pacific. It both contributes to the theoretical debate about size and security and offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the politics of security in these regions.
