John Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4028-5149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Benefits, brokers and betrayal
How processes entailed in accessing benefits are implemented in the early stages of a resource project shapes brokerage throughout the project's lifespan. Perceptions of the efficacy of these processes and of the individuals involved often vary. Where the desires of host communities are raised and then left unfulfilled by the process, the ensuing deep sense of loss and betrayal may give rise to the emergence of a new wave of brokers. This paper e…
Brokerage, bridewealth and benefits on a resource frontier in Papua New Guinea
In this paper, we examine tensions over intermarriage and resource sharing between two groups on a Papua New Guinean resource frontier. These tensions are mediated by a ‘brokerage fix’ led by Febi clan heads responding to financial demands from their Pangia neighbours and sometime affines. Here social and financial debts have become entangled in the shadow of much‐anticipated resource rents. In the ethnographic case study considered here, tension…
When brokers fail, brokers proliferate! Generational change and the failure of development in remote Papua New Guinea
Recent efforts to secure development by Febi and Kubo people in Papua New Guinea's Western Province reveal a patterned history of failing brokers, incomplete projects and wasted money. Within this longer trajectory, three overlapping waves of brokerage can be discerned, each emerging in response to the limitations of its predecessors. These waves differ in brokers' social positioning, the bases on which they claim representative legitimacy, and t…
Palestine Book Forum
Increasing harms for bingo players
These changes can be better managed by regulators: reforms are needed to safeguard bingo's distinct character as a lower-risk form of gambling at a time when it, and its players, are under threat. Significantly, we found that harm to bingo players is intensified by factors external to gambling such as racialised poverty and adverse life events. Strategies that recognise these factors and grapple with gambling harm to bingo players are needed
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation
Bingo, gender and the moral order of the household
Feminist researchers have argued for a focus on ‘everyday gambling’ and domestic spaces as sites of women’s leisure. In this article, we analyse how culture, class and gender shape the consumer practices of migrant women from Pacific Islands countries (Cook Islands and Tonga) who play bingo in regional Australia. This intersectional approach examines the effects of bingo in the everyday lives of these women. We show how migrant women gamblers hav…
The Characteristics of Locally Led Development in the Pacific
There is a growing recognition of the effectiveness of locally led processes of social change and development. However, most of the case studies that have been discussed in the literature are focused on programs run by international development agencies. This article examines three locally led processes of change in the Pacific. These include the Simbo for Change Initiative in the Solomon Islands, the Voice in Papua New Guinea and a regional proc…
Livelihoods, leadership, linkages and locality
This paper analyses the ‘Simbo for Change’ project in the Western Province of Solomon Islands, a collaboration between Simbo leaders and a Samoan non‐governmental organisation (NGO), with funding provided by the Australian aid programme. We explore the role of local leadership in catalysing an island‐wide community development project that has generated new livelihoods opportunities and led to greater community cohesion and more proactive governa…
Disaster Preparedness and the Abeyance of Agency
International practices of disaster preparedness presume human agency, particularly at the household level, as an important pre-emptive response to anticipated natural hazards. Our analysis of Fijian responses to Tropical Cyclone Winston indicates that preparedness is also regarded as important by cyclone survivors but has a moral dimension that can be used to assign blame to underprepared members of the community. However, Fijian villagers’ expe…
Gender, political representation and symbolic capital
Increasing women’s representation in national legislatures has become a priority for international organisations and aid donors in recent decades. Existing studies emphasise structural barriers, whether economic, cultural or religious, that inhibit women’s participation in the public sphere. Little attention is paid to women who defy these barriers to win election in contexts that are hostile to their presence. This article addresses this gap. Us…
How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money, by Bill Maurer
"How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money, by Bill Maurer." Anthropological Forum, 27(2), pp. 157–158
Kindy and grassroots gender transformations in Solomon Islands
Transformations of Gender in Melanesia
Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners
Jewish Resistance Against Nazism
Sorcery, Christianity and the Decline of Medical Services
In Papua New Guinea, witchcraft and sorcery accusations appear to be proliferating and, in many cases, leading to horrific violence, torture and murder of those thought to be sorcerers. We reject interpretations of sorcery accusations and violence as grounded in the ancient traditional culture of Melanesia. Instead, we see the resurgence of sorcery as an effect of poverty and social inequality, particularly the neglect of medical services and tra…
I sraeli Technicians and the Post‐Colonial Racial Triangle in P apua N ew G uinea
P apua N ew G uinean imaginings of I srael as a potential development partner draw on C hristian renderings of the B ible, but they also reflect an understanding of I srael as a modern, technologically advanced nation. As middle‐class P apua N ew G uineans reflect on the failures of national development since gaining independence from A ustralia, they express ambivalence about the appropriateness of W estern models of development for the P apua N…
C hristian Marriage, Money Scams, and M elanesian Social Imaginaries
In this paper, we draw on fieldwork with middle‐class investors in ‘fast money schemes’ ( P onzi scams) to consider how N eo‐ P entecostal C hristianity may be mediating social and economic change in P apua N ew G uinea, particularly in relation to gender equality. Ideas of companionate marriage and the cultivation of an affective self imply masculinities that are more sensitive and less domineering. As these images of fulfilled modernity flow ou…
Fast Money Schemes Are Risky Business
Gambling and financial investment have a long shared history, with many convergences and many moments where each has defined the other as its opposite. In the contemporary P acific, not least among evangelical C hristians, gambling is often understood as wasteful entertainment and even as an irresponsible vice. Investment on the other hand is seen as a productive activity for both individuals and society at large. These moral concerns draw on dis…
Hard Work
Hard Work, Tuomas Tammisto’s critical account of the Mengen people, is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province over nearly two decades. The resourc...
Singing Samo Songs
Unequal Lives
Leviathans at the Gold Mine
Fast Money Schemes
Transformations of Gender in Melanesia
Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners
Active citizenship or passive clientelism? Accountability and development in Solomon Islands
Active citizenship and participatory community-development approaches have evolved partly in response to perceived aid-dependency among rural communities. In Solomon Islands these methods have met with mixed success. This article reflects on the frustration often felt by local and international development workers when working with rural communities. It questions some of the assumptions that shape the way in which development workers and programm…
The Characteristics of Locally Led Development in the Pacific
There is a growing recognition of the effectiveness of locally led processes of social change and development. However, most of the case studies that have been discussed in the literature are focused on programs run by international development agencies. This article examines three locally led processes of change in the Pacific. These include the Simbo for Change Initiative in the Solomon Islands, the Voice in Papua New Guinea and a regional proc…
Disaster Preparedness and the Abeyance of Agency
International practices of disaster preparedness presume human agency, particularly at the household level, as an important pre-emptive response to anticipated natural hazards. Our analysis of Fijian responses to Tropical Cyclone Winston indicates that preparedness is also regarded as important by cyclone survivors but has a moral dimension that can be used to assign blame to underprepared members of the community. However, Fijian villagers’ expe…
Gender, political representation and symbolic capital
Increasing women’s representation in national legislatures has become a priority for international organisations and aid donors in recent decades. Existing studies emphasise structural barriers, whether economic, cultural or religious, that inhibit women’s participation in the public sphere. Little attention is paid to women who defy these barriers to win election in contexts that are hostile to their presence. This article addresses this gap. Us…
Bingo, gender and the moral order of the household
Feminist researchers have argued for a focus on ‘everyday gambling’ and domestic spaces as sites of women’s leisure. In this article, we analyse how culture, class and gender shape the consumer practices of migrant women from Pacific Islands countries (Cook Islands and Tonga) who play bingo in regional Australia. This intersectional approach examines the effects of bingo in the everyday lives of these women. We show how migrant women gamblers hav…
Livelihoods, leadership, linkages and locality
This paper analyses the ‘Simbo for Change’ project in the Western Province of Solomon Islands, a collaboration between Simbo leaders and a Samoan non‐governmental organisation (NGO), with funding provided by the Australian aid programme. We explore the role of local leadership in catalysing an island‐wide community development project that has generated new livelihoods opportunities and led to greater community cohesion and more proactive governa…
"General O. O. Howard and the "Misrepresented Bureau
"General O. O. Howard and the "Misrepresented Bureau
Validation of the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale (EPDS) in non-postnatal women
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Struggling with the Communist Legacy
The collapse of communism in eastern Europe set off an inevitable chain of political transitions. The abruptness of this change resulted in several stable communist societies' rapid deterioration into chaos and crisis. This text is divided into three sections. Firstly it examines Yugoslavia and the underlying forces that led to its disintegration. Then it presents a view of the Balkan countries immediately after the collapse of communism. And thi…
Active citizenship or passive clientelism? Accountability and development in Solomon Islands
Active citizenship and participatory community-development approaches have evolved partly in response to perceived aid-dependency among rural communities. In Solomon Islands these methods have met with mixed success. This article reflects on the frustration often felt by local and international development workers when working with rural communities. It questions some of the assumptions that shape the way in which development workers and programm…
Parenthood and Mental Health
The Magic of Money and the Magic of the State
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 reference to democratic ideals, while money is regarded as ‘economics’, a field dominated by ideas of the market. In this paper, I use material from U ‐ V istract , a mass Ponzi scam to show how quasi‐magical ideas of …
C hristian Marriage, Money Scams, and M elanesian Social Imaginaries
In this paper, we draw on fieldwork with middle‐class investors in ‘fast money schemes’ ( P onzi scams) to consider how N eo‐ P entecostal C hristianity may be mediating social and economic change in P apua N ew G uinea, particularly in relation to gender equality. Ideas of companionate marriage and the cultivation of an affective self imply masculinities that are more sensitive and less domineering. As these images of fulfilled modernity flow ou…
Fast Money Schemes Are Risky Business
Gambling and financial investment have a long shared history, with many convergences and many moments where each has defined the other as its opposite. In the contemporary P acific, not least among evangelical C hristians, gambling is often understood as wasteful entertainment and even as an irresponsible vice. Investment on the other hand is seen as a productive activity for both individuals and society at large. These moral concerns draw on dis…
Jewish Resistance Against Nazism
Sorcery, Christianity and the Decline of Medical Services
In Papua New Guinea, witchcraft and sorcery accusations appear to be proliferating and, in many cases, leading to horrific violence, torture and murder of those thought to be sorcerers. We reject interpretations of sorcery accusations and violence as grounded in the ancient traditional culture of Melanesia. Instead, we see the resurgence of sorcery as an effect of poverty and social inequality, particularly the neglect of medical services and tra…
I sraeli Technicians and the Post‐Colonial Racial Triangle in P apua N ew G uinea
P apua N ew G uinean imaginings of I srael as a potential development partner draw on C hristian renderings of the B ible, but they also reflect an understanding of I srael as a modern, technologically advanced nation. As middle‐class P apua N ew G uineans reflect on the failures of national development since gaining independence from A ustralia, they express ambivalence about the appropriateness of W estern models of development for the P apua N…
How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money, by Bill Maurer
"How Would You Like to Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money, by Bill Maurer." Anthropological Forum, 27(2), pp. 157–158
Kindy and grassroots gender transformations in Solomon Islands
Transformations of Gender in Melanesia
Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners
Gender, political representation and symbolic capital
Increasing women’s representation in national legislatures has become a priority for international organisations and aid donors in recent decades. Existing studies emphasise structural barriers, whether economic, cultural or religious, that inhibit women’s participation in the public sphere. Little attention is paid to women who defy these barriers to win election in contexts that are hostile to their presence. This article addresses this gap. Us…
The Characteristics of Locally Led Development in the Pacific
There is a growing recognition of the effectiveness of locally led processes of social change and development. However, most of the case studies that have been discussed in the literature are focused on programs run by international development agencies. This article examines three locally led processes of change in the Pacific. These include the Simbo for Change Initiative in the Solomon Islands, the Voice in Papua New Guinea and a regional proc…
Livelihoods, leadership, linkages and locality
This paper analyses the ‘Simbo for Change’ project in the Western Province of Solomon Islands, a collaboration between Simbo leaders and a Samoan non‐governmental organisation (NGO), with funding provided by the Australian aid programme. We explore the role of local leadership in catalysing an island‐wide community development project that has generated new livelihoods opportunities and led to greater community cohesion and more proactive governa…
Disaster Preparedness and the Abeyance of Agency
International practices of disaster preparedness presume human agency, particularly at the household level, as an important pre-emptive response to anticipated natural hazards. Our analysis of Fijian responses to Tropical Cyclone Winston indicates that preparedness is also regarded as important by cyclone survivors but has a moral dimension that can be used to assign blame to underprepared members of the community. However, Fijian villagers’ expe…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation
Bingo, gender and the moral order of the household
Feminist researchers have argued for a focus on ‘everyday gambling’ and domestic spaces as sites of women’s leisure. In this article, we analyse how culture, class and gender shape the consumer practices of migrant women from Pacific Islands countries (Cook Islands and Tonga) who play bingo in regional Australia. This intersectional approach examines the effects of bingo in the everyday lives of these women. We show how migrant women gamblers hav…
Increasing harms for bingo players
These changes can be better managed by regulators: reforms are needed to safeguard bingo's distinct character as a lower-risk form of gambling at a time when it, and its players, are under threat. Significantly, we found that harm to bingo players is intensified by factors external to gambling such as racialised poverty and adverse life events. Strategies that recognise these factors and grapple with gambling harm to bingo players are needed
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · New guinea (6 works)