[Anthropgrad] RMAP Research Seminar - PROCESSES AND PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PNG’S OIL-RICH INTERIOR - 12.30-1.30pm Tuesday 5 August

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PROCESSES AND PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PNG’S 
OIL-RICH INTERIOR

Dr Emma Gilberthorpe (RMAP Visiting Fellow)

Tuesday 5 August 2008, 12.30-1.30pm
Seminar Room B (Arndt Room) Coombs Building, ANU

Abstract:

Poor education has long been recognised as a poverty indicator but 
universal access to education continues to be a global development 
challenge. In the Waro region of Kutubu, PNG, intense missionary 
presence in the 70s and 80s brought education opportunities to a 
generation of males; since then, however, the environment has become 
dominated by an oil extraction project that has brought millions of Kina 
to the Fasu language group by way of royalties, equity and compensation. 
Education, in terms of access, attendance, infrastructure and provision 
has significantly declined. This seminar will analyse a project that 
aims to identify the social, economic and political reasons for low 
level education in the Waro region, highlighting the conflict between 
processes and perceptions of socio-economic development at the corporate 
and village levels. Highlighted as part of this analysis will be the 
widespread use of corporate rhetoric, the extension of social networks, 
the atomisation of capital accumulation and the lack of investment in 
human capital as poverty indicators in areas affected by resource 
extraction in PNG.


Bio
Emma is a lecturer in social anthropology at Durham University in the 
UK. She works in the Kutubu and Ok Tedi regions of Papua New Guinea 
where non-renewable resource extraction projects (oil and copper 
respectively) are currently operating.

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Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University

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