Scott Macwilliam
Biographic Data
| ID | 119493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Macwilliam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Macwilliam |
| SIGNATURE | MACWILLIAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-9246-4783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? By Kirstie Petrou and John Connell. Singapore
Policy Advice and Decolonisation in Papua New Guinea
This essay examines a moment in Papua New Guinea's history when international advice about the country's future had particular weight. In placing rural areas and populations at the centre of policy prescriptions, the advice fitted neatly with the ambitions of the Indigenous politicians and business people who were taking hold of and shaping state power. Whether the outcome, an independent nation‐state following a policy direction which intended t…
Gambling on Development
Political Impotence of the Neo-Liberal Ideologues
Critics of neo-liberalism’s advance have not always paid sufficient attention to how the ideology came to be attached to class and state power, either internationally or in any country. “Land problems” remain central to the development of capitalism in Papua New Guinea. Proposals for reform of what is known as customary tenure have remained within the liberal tradition, as liberalism itself changed internationally. From the 1990s, one strand of t…
A Road With No End
Commencing in the 1980s and picking up pace over the last two decades, there has been a systematic campaign to construct a specific form of labour market in the South Pacific. Unskilled and semi-skilled workers are recruited on short-term contracts to work in agricultural industries in Australia and New Zealand. While the employment is on a casual basis, with workers required to return to home countries upon the completion of contracts, there is …
Anti‐Conservatism
In the continuing debates about the relative importance of conservatism and liberalism in the history of the Australian Liberal Party, one important dimension remains absent. Liberal developmentalism as an important anti‐conservative strand of thought was critical to the party's formative years after the Second World War as a party of government. The importance of this facet of liberalism is illustrated here by reference to the role of long‐servi…
Agrarian Change and the Initial Development of an Aboriginal Bourgeoisie in Australia
While the commercial ambitions of indigenous capitalists are continuously displayed in Australia, little is known about the origins and initial development of the class. In this essay one area of the country, the north-west of Western Australia (WA), is chosen to show how changes in the principal agricultural industry opened space for Aboriginal commerce. Despite the opposition of State governments and existing firms that dominated cattle and she…
Contesting Transformation
Review(s) of: Contesting transformation popular resistance in twenty-first-century South Africa, by Marcelle C Dawson and Luke Sinwell eds., London: Pluto Press, 2012 pp. 300, ISBN 97807453 35025; A flawed freedom rethinking Southern African liberation, by John S Saul, London: Pluto Press and Toronto: Between the Lines, 2014, pp. 199, ISBN 9780745334790, Between the Lines 978 1771131506.
Contesting Transformation
On Mohammed A. Bayeh's The Ends of Globalization; Terry Boswell's and Christopher Chase-Dunn's The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism; Raym's In the Hurricane's Eye
Just like working for the dole
Globally national governments have been forced to devise means for dealing with a rising tide of unemployed and semi-employed. One method used in industrial countries involves reducing the levels of welfare payments and attaching particular conditions for the receipt of unemployment benefits. Working for the dole is one such condition. In non-industrial countries, with primarily rural populations and without previously established unemployment be…
The politics of privatisation
Since the 1970s there has been a continuing international drive to transform state institutions in a wide range of countries. The reforming drive continues to be associated with the idea of privatisation. The privatisation of the long‐established statutory corporation, the Coffee Industry Board (CIB), in Papua New Guinea (PNG), provides an opportunity to examine forces behind one expression of the demands for reform. The examination shows that wh…
The politics of an agricultural disease in Papua New Guinea
Smallholdings, land law and the politics of land tenure in Papua New Guinea
It has been asserted of Papua New Guinea that the nineteenth and twentieth century expansion of capitalism into that country occurred without the commodification of more than a small amount of land. The various arguments supporting this view are rejected, and the evidence to the contrary is presented. It is shown that from the 1950s smallholder production increases have been substantial, mainly but not wholly in export crops. The role of the stat…
International companies and nationalist politics in Papua New Guinea
Additional informationNotes on contributorsScott MacWilliamI am indebted to Mike Cowen, Desh Gupta and Robert Foster, in particular, for comments and suggestions made on an initial draft of this paper, which was presented at the CSE Annual Conference in July 1986, held at Sheffield Polytechnic
International capital, indigenous accumulation and the state in Papua New Guinea
Much has been asserted about the comprador status of the bourgeoisie in Africa and the way it has been blackenised at the behest of old colonial powers and new international agencies such as the World Bank. Scott MacWilliam takes up this issue which has been extended to Australia's former colony of Papua New Guinea to show whether and how an indigenous bourgeoisie is capable of subverting the strategy of the World Bank in promoting small-scale pr…
Smallholdings, land law and the politics of land tenure in Papua New Guinea
It has been asserted of Papua New Guinea that the nineteenth and twentieth century expansion of capitalism into that country occurred without the commodification of more than a small amount of land. The various arguments supporting this view are rejected, and the evidence to the contrary is presented. It is shown that from the 1950s smallholder production increases have been substantial, mainly but not wholly in export crops. The role of the stat…
International capital, indigenous accumulation and the state in Papua New Guinea
Much has been asserted about the comprador status of the bourgeoisie in Africa and the way it has been blackenised at the behest of old colonial powers and new international agencies such as the World Bank. Scott MacWilliam takes up this issue which has been extended to Australia's former colony of Papua New Guinea to show whether and how an indigenous bourgeoisie is capable of subverting the strategy of the World Bank in promoting small-scale pr…
Gambling on Development
Just like working for the dole
Globally national governments have been forced to devise means for dealing with a rising tide of unemployed and semi-employed. One method used in industrial countries involves reducing the levels of welfare payments and attaching particular conditions for the receipt of unemployment benefits. Working for the dole is one such condition. In non-industrial countries, with primarily rural populations and without previously established unemployment be…
A Road With No End
Commencing in the 1980s and picking up pace over the last two decades, there has been a systematic campaign to construct a specific form of labour market in the South Pacific. Unskilled and semi-skilled workers are recruited on short-term contracts to work in agricultural industries in Australia and New Zealand. While the employment is on a casual basis, with workers required to return to home countries upon the completion of contracts, there is …
The politics of an agricultural disease in Papua New Guinea
The politics of privatisation
Since the 1970s there has been a continuing international drive to transform state institutions in a wide range of countries. The reforming drive continues to be associated with the idea of privatisation. The privatisation of the long‐established statutory corporation, the Coffee Industry Board (CIB), in Papua New Guinea (PNG), provides an opportunity to examine forces behind one expression of the demands for reform. The examination shows that wh…
International companies and nationalist politics in Papua New Guinea
Additional informationNotes on contributorsScott MacWilliamI am indebted to Mike Cowen, Desh Gupta and Robert Foster, in particular, for comments and suggestions made on an initial draft of this paper, which was presented at the CSE Annual Conference in July 1986, held at Sheffield Polytechnic
International capital, indigenous accumulation and the state in Papua New Guinea
Much has been asserted about the comprador status of the bourgeoisie in Africa and the way it has been blackenised at the behest of old colonial powers and new international agencies such as the World Bank. Scott MacWilliam takes up this issue which has been extended to Australia's former colony of Papua New Guinea to show whether and how an indigenous bourgeoisie is capable of subverting the strategy of the World Bank in promoting small-scale pr…
International companies and nationalist politics in Papua New Guinea
Additional informationNotes on contributorsScott MacWilliamI am indebted to Mike Cowen, Desh Gupta and Robert Foster, in particular, for comments and suggestions made on an initial draft of this paper, which was presented at the CSE Annual Conference in July 1986, held at Sheffield Polytechnic
Smallholdings, land law and the politics of land tenure in Papua New Guinea
It has been asserted of Papua New Guinea that the nineteenth and twentieth century expansion of capitalism into that country occurred without the commodification of more than a small amount of land. The various arguments supporting this view are rejected, and the evidence to the contrary is presented. It is shown that from the 1950s smallholder production increases have been substantial, mainly but not wholly in export crops. The role of the stat…
The politics of an agricultural disease in Papua New Guinea
The politics of privatisation
Since the 1970s there has been a continuing international drive to transform state institutions in a wide range of countries. The reforming drive continues to be associated with the idea of privatisation. The privatisation of the long‐established statutory corporation, the Coffee Industry Board (CIB), in Papua New Guinea (PNG), provides an opportunity to examine forces behind one expression of the demands for reform. The examination shows that wh…
Just like working for the dole
Globally national governments have been forced to devise means for dealing with a rising tide of unemployed and semi-employed. One method used in industrial countries involves reducing the levels of welfare payments and attaching particular conditions for the receipt of unemployment benefits. Working for the dole is one such condition. In non-industrial countries, with primarily rural populations and without previously established unemployment be…
On Mohammed A. Bayeh's The Ends of Globalization; Terry Boswell's and Christopher Chase-Dunn's The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism; Raym's In the Hurricane's Eye
Contesting Transformation
Review(s) of: Contesting transformation popular resistance in twenty-first-century South Africa, by Marcelle C Dawson and Luke Sinwell eds., London: Pluto Press, 2012 pp. 300, ISBN 97807453 35025; A flawed freedom rethinking Southern African liberation, by John S Saul, London: Pluto Press and Toronto: Between the Lines, 2014, pp. 199, ISBN 9780745334790, Between the Lines 978 1771131506.
Contesting Transformation
Agrarian Change and the Initial Development of an Aboriginal Bourgeoisie in Australia
While the commercial ambitions of indigenous capitalists are continuously displayed in Australia, little is known about the origins and initial development of the class. In this essay one area of the country, the north-west of Western Australia (WA), is chosen to show how changes in the principal agricultural industry opened space for Aboriginal commerce. Despite the opposition of State governments and existing firms that dominated cattle and she…
Anti‐Conservatism
In the continuing debates about the relative importance of conservatism and liberalism in the history of the Australian Liberal Party, one important dimension remains absent. Liberal developmentalism as an important anti‐conservative strand of thought was critical to the party's formative years after the Second World War as a party of government. The importance of this facet of liberalism is illustrated here by reference to the role of long‐servi…
A Road With No End
Commencing in the 1980s and picking up pace over the last two decades, there has been a systematic campaign to construct a specific form of labour market in the South Pacific. Unskilled and semi-skilled workers are recruited on short-term contracts to work in agricultural industries in Australia and New Zealand. While the employment is on a casual basis, with workers required to return to home countries upon the completion of contracts, there is …
Gambling on Development
Political Impotence of the Neo-Liberal Ideologues
Critics of neo-liberalism’s advance have not always paid sufficient attention to how the ideology came to be attached to class and state power, either internationally or in any country. “Land problems” remain central to the development of capitalism in Papua New Guinea. Proposals for reform of what is known as customary tenure have remained within the liberal tradition, as liberalism itself changed internationally. From the 1990s, one strand of t…
Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? Pacific Islands Guestworkers in Australia. The New Blackbirds? By Kirstie Petrou and John Connell. Singapore
Policy Advice and Decolonisation in Papua New Guinea
This essay examines a moment in Papua New Guinea's history when international advice about the country's future had particular weight. In placing rural areas and populations at the centre of policy prescriptions, the advice fitted neatly with the ambitions of the Indigenous politicians and business people who were taking hold of and shaping state power. Whether the outcome, an independent nation‐state following a policy direction which intended t…
Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · New guinea (8 works) · Ethnology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (7 works) · Law (7 works)