When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all uneven patterns of development and seeks a more robust understanding of the ideological work that capital requires for constant regeneration.
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Map of the Island of New Guinea
- Introduction
- 1. “Such a Site for Play, This Edge”: Tourism and Modernist Fantasy
- 2. “We Are Here to Build Your Capacity”: Development as a Vehicle for Accumulation and Dispossession
- 3. Discovering the Already Known: Tree Kangaroos, Explorer Imaginings, and Indigenous Articulations
- 4. Indigenous Theories of Accumulation, Dispossession, Possession, and Sovereignty
- Afterword. Birdsongs: In Memory of Neil Smith (1954–2012)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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