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The Pacific year has closed with growing tensions over sovereignty and self-determination issues and growing stress over the ravages of covid-19 pandemic in a region that was largely virus-free in 2020. Just two days before the year 2021... more
Im Supplément au voyage de Bougainville setzt sich Diderot am Beispiel Tahitis mit Fragen der Macht, der Sexualität und der Kolonialherrschaft auseinander. Der Text gilt als Paradebeispiel für die exotistische Verklärung eines fremden... more
Rédigé en 1772 et donné pour la première fois au public en 1796, le "Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville" de Diderot occupe une place marquante dans l’histoire du primitivisme. Notre étude se propose de montrer comment, dans cet ouvrage,... more
Diderot's 1772 text Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville (Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage around the World') is a 'riff', as Lynn Festa puts it, on the explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville's memorable account of his landfall on... more
This thesis examines Papua New Guinean attitudes to money and modernity through an exploration of contemporary “fast money schemes” (Ponzi scams). The largest of these, U-Vistract Financial Systems, collected millions of Kina from... more
An analysis of the Bougainville Crisis: its origins, motives and key players.
Christianity and politics seem to be intrinsically linked. In Central Bougainville, which is part of the autonomous province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Catholic faith introduced by Marist missionaries has been... more
‘The original [Panguna mine] agreement overrode our customs, denied us our land rights and was too rushed. It contradicts our way of life; what comes from the land should benefit the landowners … nobody else. ’ A Nasioi militant... more
As Keith Hart (1986) articulated in his neat phrase ‘two sides of the coin’, money and the state are inextricably intertwined. However, academic discussions of the state tend to fall under the heading of ‘governance’, with implicit... more
This paper explores the socio/economic and environmental impact of the extractive industry in Papua New Guinea and moots that they are inextricably interlinked to politics.
This SSGM In Brief gives some background information to the recent arrest of an American national who arrived in Port Moresby carrying a briefcase of "Bougainville Kina', a pseudo-currency promoted by the notorious Ponzi fraudster Noah... more
Sorcery in Buka, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, is understood as reprehensible in most present contexts, but it is also believed to have once played a constructive role in maintaining social order. This mytheme is important both to... more
The Naasioi Otomaung alphabet first came to light during the Bougainville Crisis of 1988-1998. Created by the Naasioi speaking leader of a politico-religious movement in Kieta district, its emergence follows the pattern of numerous other... more
This report examines the governmental organizational structures used in three Australian-led interventions in the late 1990s and early 2000s in the Southwest Pacific regions: Bougainville, East Timor, and the Solomon Islands.... more
I wrote this paper in 2010 based on the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) annual reports, while still working in the UNDP run Peace and Recovery project. The UNDP Bougainville... more
Contemporary Melanesian communities face difficulties both because of the withdrawal of government services and the continued influence of clientelism within the politics of the distributive state. A notable reaction to both these... more
The text will focus on some utopic themes present in French Enlightenment writers, and particular in Diderot’s Souplement au voyage de Bougainville. The aim is to try to understand why the major authors of French Enlightenment prior to... more
In 1989, the massive Panguna copper mine, which was at the centre of a decade-long conflict in Bougainville, was forced to close. Twenty-five years on, Bougainville is readying for a deferred referendum on independence — one of the... more
The use of referendums in conflict societies has increased significantly in recent decades. A planned referendum in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, is a current example. Referendums potentially help a conflict society to progress towards... more
This book examines the possibilities and limitations of corporate social responsibility in minimising the violent conflict often associated with natural resource exploitation. Through detailed and penetrating empirical analysis, the... more
TRANSCRIPT Papua New Guinea's resources boom could leave the country more susceptible to fraudsters and ponzi schemes, according to new research by the Australian National University. John Cox has been studying the effect of fast money... more
A referendum to decide on Bougainville's future political relationship with Papua New Guinea was held in November 2019. The deferred, non‐binding, referendum is a key milestone contained in the Bougainville Peace Agreement (BPA),... more
Sweat, mud, fatigue, stress, fear, and constant patrolling: such was the Australian infantrymen's war on Bougainville in 1945.
In this chapter, I analyse the elaborate Papua New Guinean pyramid scam, U-Vistract, as a site where contemporary ideas of economy and society are being negotiated. Drawing on propaganda from the scam and my own fieldwork, I explore Papua... more
Slides from our talk given at Divine Word University, Madang - 29th May 2020.
New Zealanders played a critical part in a flash-point that ignited a guerilla war threatening the economy and stability of Papuas New Guinea. DAVID ROBIE examines the New Zealand connection and the conflict centred on Bougainville island... more
""The two books under review are part of a series of publications of the Peacebuilding Compared Project (http://peacebuilding.anu.edu.au) at the Australian National University. Reconciliation and Architectures of Commitment addresses the... more
In the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ARoB) in Papua New Guinea, the changes of Vatican II led to significant Church reform, creating “Liklik Kristen Komuniti” (small Christian communities) that gave more responsibility to the laity.... more
This paper brings together Žižek’s bartleby politics with the praxis of organic intellectuals emerging out of the “bougainville crisis”, in order to generate a new van- tage point for theorizing anti-colonial resistance to state violence.... more
Australia has a strong record of contributing to peacekeeping and peace-building operations. Among the first to be deployed under UN auspices, Australian troops monitored the ceasefire between Dutch and Indonesian forces in 1947. Since... more
The island of Bougainville is widely touted as the most likely candidate to become the world's next independent state and the 194th member of the UN. In December 2019, it was announced that it had voted by a huge majority for... more
"Corporate Social Responsibility and Natural Resource Conflict starts by introducing the geographic, cultural, economic, and environmental backgrounds of the case studies in Bougainville and West Papua. Here McKenna illustrates how the... more
... Carroll (1991) argues that these four categories of corporate social responsibilities can be depicted as a pyramid, in which economic ... Discretionary responsibilities are at the apex. Nonetheless, firms are expected to fulfil these... more
This chapter considers the longevity of the Ponzi scam U-Vistract, drawing on theories of affective labour and corporate branding.