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The New Port Moresby - Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea (Hardcover)
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The New Port Moresby - Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea (Hardcover)
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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