ECONOMIES OF RECOGNITION

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged academics, academy, anthropology, Axel Honneth, care, colonisation, economics, featured, gift, giving, Goroka, indigenous, Marcel Mauss, neocolonialism, neoliberalism, new labour, Papua New Guinea, philosophy, politics, social theory.

by Liv Barnett

Academics are often accused of failing to make their research matter to audiences other than themselves. Anthropologists are particularly criticized for writing theories and ethnographies that not only go unread by non-anthropologists, but are also too inaccessible to those they may be writing about. Here I hope to try and explain a central aspect of my PhD research in Papua New Guinea and share some of the ways it has got me thinking about politics and economics in the UK.

The stereotyped anthropologist gets criticized for using the experiences of a usually colonised ‘other’ for their own project of producing knowledge that counters the taken for granted understandings people have of humanity or society in ‘the West’, which are presumed to be universal to human nature. This is a legitimate argument which has to be taken seriously. Therefore, I self-consciously use some of my observations in Papua New Guinea (enabled by the generosity of those who I lived with in PNG) and the ideas of European/western social theorists.

FOOD (NOT SO) GLORIOUS FOOD. PART 1: FOOD DYSTOPIA

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged brazil nuts, cash crops, cashews, chocolate, cocoa, dystopia, food, ghana, globalisation, Indonesia, malaysia, malnutrition, neoliberalism, obesity, Papua New Guinea, sugar.

By Stu Lucy

Food. We all need it and each every one of us has a unique and complex relationship with it. From production to acquisition to preparation and finally consumption, the constituent parts of this process vary widely across the planet. The unfortunate reality for most of the global community, however, is that this personal and multifaceted relationship is fraught with difficulty and dilemma. In fact, as we further examine the inner mechanisms and processes of the human-food relationship, we can find ourselves exposed to a somewhat dystopian state of affairs.Continue Reading

THE 2017 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ELECTION: BAD LUCK?

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged campaign, corruption, elections, equality, farce, fraud, Human Rights Watch, international, minorities, Papua New Guinea, Parliament, Peter O'Neill, PNG, police, student, student activism.

by Maud Webster

The 2017 Papua New Guinea election was fraught with allegations, violence and anger. Yet the object of the disquiet – Peter O’Neill – was still re-elected as Prime Minister. He represents the People’s National Congress Party, which has been rising rapidly in popularity over the past couple of decades. In 2002, they were in opposition with two votes, but entered government in 2007. Now, they hold twenty-seven. O’Neill has held the position since 2011 and just about holds it still, by obtaining support from minor parties and scrabbling together support for his party’s re-election. Following coalition discussions, his vote support margin stood at sixty votes to forty-six.

The election itself was blighted by disorganisation and electoral roll irregularities, in addition to initial dissatisfaction with O’Neill’s first term. Voters expressed concerns about the chaotic economy, rife with extensive borrowing. Whilst statistics show growth in GDP, growth has dropped from 13.3% in 2014 to a mere 2% in 2016.

The election itself was an appalling farce. Continue Reading

Papua New Guinea

FOOD (NOT SO) GLORIOUS FOOD. PART 1: FOOD DYSTOPIA

THE 2017 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ELECTION: BAD LUCK?

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