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The New Port Moresby - Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea (Paperback)
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The New Port Moresby - Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea (Paperback)
Series: Topics in the Contemporary Pacific
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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.
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