Hard Work

Producing places, relations and value on a Papua New Guinea resource frontier

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5818348
AutoresTuomas Tammisto (0000-0001-9767-7832, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Fecha de publicación2024-12-19
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaHard Work (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialHelsinki University Press (PUBLISHER • FI)
DOI10.33134/hup-29
OpenAlexW4405594305
ISBN9789523691223
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6

For the Mengen people of Papua New Guinea, 'hard work' does not refer to drudgery or physically exhausting labour. Instead, it involves creating and recreating social relations through acts of care, marriages, ceremonial events, sharing, and working the land together. 'Work' as the Mengen see it, produces value understood as meaningful social relations. This differs significantly from the way colonial officials, loggers, and planters perceived value. Hard Work examines human-environmental relations, value production, natural resource extraction, and state formation within the context of the Mengen. It delves into how the Mengen engage with their land and outside actors like companies, NGOs, and the state through agriculture, logging, plantation labour, and environmental conservation. These practices have shaped the Mengen's lived environment, while also sparking debates on what is considered valuable and how value is created. Tammisto's monograph explores the complexities of natural resource extraction, looking at both large-scale processes and personal human-environment interactions. It combines a political ecology focus on the connection between environmental issues and power relations with a focus on how value is produced, represented, and materialized

Frontier · New guinea · Value (mathematics · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs

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