Conflict and Resource Development: In The Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Abstract

Tables 3.1. Altitude ranges in SHP, by land area, population, and population density on land used for agriculture, 2000 3.2. Landforms in SHP by land area, population, and population density on land used for agriculture, 2000 3.3. Average population growth rates (% per year), 1966 to 2000: Southern Highlands compared with other Papua New Guinea regions 3.4. Land quality by land area and populations

Factional Competition, Legal Conflict and Emerging Organisational Stratification Around a Prospective Mine in Papua New Guinea

“…These leaders also do not report to their people and that's where the problem is. (Ngansia 2018) There is indeed woefully inadequate transparency about mining benefits distribution, a point that observers of the PNG extraction industries have repeatedly made (Sagir 2001;Koyama 2004;Haley and May 2007;Filer 2012). However, these debates can involve a sleight-of-hand, signalled by the above quote's complaints of 'misuse and mismanagement'.…”

“…These studies connect to a wider literature of millenarian social movements (Worsley 1957;Lawrence 1964;Lindstrom 1993;Jebens 2004;Bainton 2010: 109, 175) and, more recently, 'fast money' schemes (Cox 2018). In contrast, after extraction begins and money begins to flow, anthropologists have examined consequences of novel social inequality, whether changing economies of prestige (Bainton 2010), violent conflict (Filer 1990;Haley and May 2007;Jacka 2015), increasingly exclusionary social relations (Gilberthorpe 2007;Bainton 2009) or the lack of transparency in benefit distribution for both mining and oil extraction (Sagir 2001;Koyama 2004;2005;Haley and May 2007;Filer 2012).…”

Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea

“…These studies connect to a wider literature of millenarian social movements (Worsley 1957;Lawrence 1964;Lindstrom 1993;Jebens 2004;Bainton 2010: 109, 175) and, more recently, 'fast money' schemes . In contrast, after extraction begins and money begins to flow, anthropologists have examined consequences of novel social inequality, whether changing economies of prestige , violent conflict Haley and May 2007;, increasingly exclusionary social relations (Gilberthorpe 2007; or the lack of transparency in benefit distribution for both mining and oil extraction (Sagir 2001;Koyama 2004;Haley and May 2007;Filer 2012).…”

The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects

“…In PNG, the curse is often thought to be linked to faulty and ineffective governance, or 'maladministration' (Burton 1998), where the state is unable to curb the excesses of the extractive industries or convert natural resources into sustainable forms of development. Anthropologists and other social scientists working in the country who have written about the 'resource curse' have generally focused on the ways in which it is manifest through increased social conflicts and environmental impacts and the forms of structural violence that are created and intensified by large-scale resource extraction projects (see Filer 1990;Haley and May 2007;Banks 2008;Allen 2018). In Australia, on the other hand, analytical focus is usually directed at the macro-scale, which might go some way towards explaining why the country is not generally thought to be afflicted by this curse.…”