P D Dwyer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1535 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P D Dwyer |
| PRENOMES | P D |
| SOBRENOME | Dwyer |
| ASSINATURA | DWYER P D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1799-5318 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 77 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 428 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Imagining the city in remote Papua New Guinea
‘Nation’ and ‘City’ are exemplars of much more general phenomena – categorical identities (language group, province) and the central sites (village, town) through which connections among and beyond the members of that category are channelled. Drawing on examples from Western Province, Papua New Guinea, we look at how relational logics of kinship and categorical logics of citizenship are articulated around such sites, regardless of scale. We begin…
A Road, a Border, and Development in New Guinea
A road being built in north-western Western Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG), addresses local desires for mobility, for development, and for establishing materially beneficial relationships with people living west of the border in the Indonesian province of South Papua. This road is explicitly intended to reach beyond the nation and, like all routes to border-crossings, exposes differences even as it connects. On the Indonesian side a new sealed …
The Beharell Patrol of 1938
In 1938, John S. Beharell led the first colonial government patrol into the then ‘uncontrolled’ land of Kubo people east of the Strickland River. That patrol is not referred to in reports of subsequent patrols a decade and more later. Nor does it appear in published histories of the area. That is unfortunate, for Beharell encountered a social landscape that differed from the landscape documented by later patrols. Analysis of Beharell’s report poi…
Policy and the Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas pipeline
The Invention of Nature
Modern thought treats nature as separate from culture and has assigned ontological priority to the former. Among Kubo, curing ceremonies, intercommunity prestations, initiations and the completion of new longhouses may be all marked by dancing. The focal referent of &s;geography&s; is the landscape itself. But spiritual beings may be often manifest in the material world. The geography of the Kubo landscape is not characterized by strong gradients…
Person, Place or Pig
This chapter focuses on differences across societies of New Guinea in the ways in which people manage young pigs and to the implications this has for the kinds of attachments established by pigs. It then shows that the strategies of management are themselves correlated with other aspects of human ecology — with mobility, settlement pattern and subsistence — and argues that they have consequences for social life in either limiting or facilitating,…
Appropriating Fish, Appropriating Fishermen
In this paper we ask what happens to fish and to fishermen who are subjected to modern forms of risk management. First, we consider how fish are being or have been reconfigured in the imagination of fishermen, managers and others who have some tie to the fishing industry. Secondly, we ask how the imagination of fishermen is being reconfigured by the imposition of management strategies that, ultimately, translate the uncertainties inherent in macr…
Covid‐19 and Facebook in Papua New Guinea
This article examines use of a Papua New Guinea (PNG) Facebook group, Fly River Forum, with reference to the COVID‐19 global pandemic. From about mid‐March 2020, when the PNG Government declared a State of Emergency, to early May, members of that forum shared an intense interest in the pandemic and were deeply concerned with its possible implications for the country. The great majority of COVID‐related posts, and associated comments, combined del…
On Reading Patrol Reports – 3
Pre-independence patrols through remote areas of Papua and New Guinea were concerned both with mapping land and with identifying and counting those who lived there. People do not always stay in place, however, as colonial authorities envisioned, and patrols seeking to render them legible took different paths, at different times, through the same land. Reports from patrols to the vicinity of the Burnett River, which flows westwards from the Muller…
On Reading Patrol Reports – 2
Reports of patrols through remote areas of Papua and New Guinea led by officers of the Australian administration must be read with care. We discuss the case of a patrol report from the mid 1960s where the patrol cannot have travelled the route indicated on the accompanying map. By cross-referencing to reports from later patrols, we provide both an improved reading of the report in question and, more generally, an appreciation of motivations that …
On Reading Patrol Reports – 1
Reports of patrols through remote areas of Papua and New Guinea led by officers of the Australian administration have much to contribute to understandings of the work entailed in rendering both land and people legible to the colonial state. But these must be read with care. Using the text and maps produced by one patrol, led by John McGregor in 1968, we demonstrate how topographic maps, produced well after particular patrols were undertaken, may …
‘We Are Fire Clan’
This paper draws on two case studies concerning Kubo and Febi people of Western Province, Papua New Guinea, to reveal, first, ways in which people present themselves to the state as groups that qualify as legitimate beneficiaries of financial benefits expected to flow from extraction of natural gas on or near their land and, second, simultaneously present themselves to their immediate neighbours in ways intended to either lay claim to particular …
Captain Everill’s Error
An error dating from 1885 in mapping the upper Strickland River, Papua New Guinea, was reinforced and extended by government officer Charles Karius in 1929 when reporting results from a lengthy exploratory patrol. Detailed maps produced by the US Army and the Royal Australian Survey Corps in, respectively, 1942 and 1966 perpetuated these errors. It was not until 1979, with release of a series of 1:100,000 topographic maps, that long-standing erro…
The global development crisis
A popular misconception is that everything is now made by cheap labour in China and India or somewhere in Africa. What this in part represents is recognition of the gigantic expansion of the global
Reshaping the Social
In Papua New Guinea, local communities increasingly strive to render themselves 'visible' to the state as entities entitled to control and claim benefits from developments on their land. When people commit expressions of social form to paper they inevitably reshape previously operative social and political forms. This article compares ways in which two groups of Papua New Guineans have gone about the process of forming Incorporated Land Groups. D…
Precarious Lives
Precarious Lives
"This ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshed in a broader picture of modern slavery produced through globalised working conditions. Drawing on original evidence generated in fieldwork with ref…
Where all the rivers flow west
‘Abstraction’ has been often identified as a key element in social change. Analyses, however, have often conflated the ideas of abstraction as ‘object’ and as ‘process’. This paper discusses two maps drawn by or on behalf of Kubo men, of the interior lowlands of southern Papua New Guinea. They were drawn in the context of recent exposure to a vast Liquefied Natural Gas project initiated on the land of their neighbours and both, as abstractions fr…
African Struggles Today
Chapter One--Introduction Chapter Two--Social movements and the working class in Africa Chapter Three--An epoch of uprisings: Social movements in post-colonial Africa, 1945-1998 Chapter Four --South African social movements Chapter Five--Social movements after the transition: Choiceless Democracies? Chapter Six--Frustrated transitions: social movements, protest and repression in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Swaziland Chapter Sev…
Using Private Rights to Manage Natural Resources
Gilmour, P. W., R. W. Day, and P. D. Dwyer. 2012. Using private rights to manage natural resources: is stewardship linked to ownership? Ecology and Society 17(3): 1. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04770-170301
Accession 8 Migration and the Proactive and Defensive Engagement of Social Citizenship
Following the expansion of the European Union in 2004 unprecedented numbers of Accession 8 migrants from Central and Eastern Europe entered the UK. These migrants are often concentrated in particular urban neighbourhoods, which are already routinely home to diverse communities and/or characterised by high levels of social deprivation. Using original data from a study in a northern English city, this paper explores the ways in which established co…
Good relations’ among neighbours and workmates? The everyday encounters of Accession 8 migrants and established communities in Urban England
Drawing on data generated in a recently completed qualitative study in a northern, English city, this paper explores the everyday social encounters of Accession 8 (A8) migrants who entered the UK following the expansion of the European Union in 2004. A number of options from permanent residence in another Member State on the one hand, to more fleeting circulatory and multiple short‐term moves on the other, now exist for these new European citizen…
The Experiences of Accession 8 Migrants in England
Drawing on a recently completed qualitative study in a northern English city, this paper explores motivations and experiences of Accession 8 (A8) migrants who have entered the United Kingdom following the expansion of the European Union in 2004. The paper considers commonalities and differences among the group of migrants routinely referred to as A8 migrant workers/labourers. Diversity is apparent in three particular respects: first, the motivati…
Animal Metaphors
Understanding social citizenship
Part one: Citizenship and welfare: Introduction: defining citizenship Two traditions of thought: civic republicanism and liberalism The development of social citizenship in Britain Contemporary approaches to social citizenship Part two: Issues of difference and stratification: Poverty, class, citizenship and welfare Gender, citizenship and welfare Disabled citizens? Race, ethnicity, citizenship and welfare Part three: Beyond the nation state: Soc…
The Experiences of Accession 8 Migrants in England
Drawing on a recently completed qualitative study in a northern English city, this paper explores motivations and experiences of Accession 8 (A8) migrants who have entered the United Kingdom following the expansion of the European Union in 2004. The paper considers commonalities and differences among the group of migrants routinely referred to as A8 migrant workers/labourers. Diversity is apparent in three particular respects: first, the motivati…
Good relations’ among neighbours and workmates? The everyday encounters of Accession 8 migrants and established communities in Urban England
Drawing on data generated in a recently completed qualitative study in a northern, English city, this paper explores the everyday social encounters of Accession 8 (A8) migrants who entered the UK following the expansion of the European Union in 2004. A number of options from permanent residence in another Member State on the one hand, to more fleeting circulatory and multiple short‐term moves on the other, now exist for these new European citizen…
Fixed laws, fluid lives
This paper presents key findings of a recently completed socio-legal study of international retirement migration in the European Union (EU). It highlights the diverse nature of retirement migration and the differential citizenship status that is formally granted to various groups of retired migrants. ‘Citizenship of the European Union’ (Articles 17–22 of the Treaty establishing the European Community) bestows important social and political rights…
New Directions in Research on Youth in Transition
New directions in research on youth transitions are examined, with particular reference to the research findings of recent studies from different countries. The convergence of evidence in the studies points to a significant shift of emphasis for the study of youth transitions and the need for a more interactive research process that enables the participants to articulate their own meanings and experiences. One limitation of the studies is that th…
Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s
In Britain the relationship between welfare rights and responsibilities has undergone change. A new welfare 'consensus' that emphasizes a citizen ship centred on notions of duty rather than rights has been built. This has allowed the state to reduce its role as a provider of welfare and also defend a position in which the welfare rights of some citizens are increas ingly conditional on those individuals meeting compulsory responsibili ties or dut…
We nicked stuff from all over the place
This article explores current thinking about policy learning and transfer, using recent work on the ‘Americanisation’ of UK active labour market policies as a focus of discussion. While it is clear that the UK has learned from the US in certain respects, academic debates about the US–UK policy relationship are marked by accounts of learning and transfer that depend on a highly rational interpretation of these processes. The article reviews curren…
Waiting for Company
Les Kubo sont une petite population de chasseurs cueilleurs qui vivent dans les Basses-Terres interieures de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee. Jusqu'a present ils sont restes largement en dehors du developpement et de l'occidentalisation qui ont eu lieu dans de nombreuses parties du pays. Cependant, faute de se materialiser, la modernite a eu un impact significatif dans la region. Dans cet article nous caracterisons d'abord les relations des Kubo avec l…
Intensification and Social Complexity in the Interior Lowlands of Papua New Guinea
The Transformation of Use-Rights
Use and ownership of land and resources in two related societies of lowland Papua New Guinea are shown to covary with residence, gender, marriage, kinship, and local understandings of rights that are accorded by either conventions of practice or conventions of inheritance. We argue that the articulation of these material and social relations is predicated on the potential for a lack of congruence between discourse and behavior. Differences betwee…
Bower birds, bones and archaeology
A Hunt in New Guinea
For one case study the motives for going hunting, the choice of companions and the subsequent distribution of the catch are shown to have been strongly connected. The inquiry strategy of 'optimal foraging theory' takes little account of either motives or distribution. To accommodate these components of hunting behaviour within a functionalist perspective, practitioners of 'optimal foraging theory' may have to incorporate sociobiological notions i…
An analysis of Rofaifo mammal taxonomy
Analysis of a New Guinea folk classification of mammals reveals considerable correspondence for entities perceived and labeled by folk and scientific zoologists, but notable differences in the cognitive status accorded those entities in the two classificatory systems. The cognitive status of folk categories may be best understood in a relativistic frame rather than by assigning them to fixed positions within a formalized hierarchy of conceptual s…
Reshaping the Social
In Papua New Guinea, local communities increasingly strive to render themselves 'visible' to the state as entities entitled to control and claim benefits from developments on their land. When people commit expressions of social form to paper they inevitably reshape previously operative social and political forms. This article compares ways in which two groups of Papua New Guineans have gone about the process of forming Incorporated Land Groups. D…
Meeting Basic Needs? Forced Migrants and Welfare
As the number of forced migrants entering Britain has risen, increasingly restrictive immigration and asylum policy has been introduced. Simultaneously, successive governments have sought to limit the welfare entitlements of forced migrants. Drawing on two sets of semi-structured qualitative interviews, with migrants and key respondents providing welfare services, this paper considers the adequacy of welfare provisions in relation to the financia…
Accommodating ‘others’
Utilising insights from a qualitative study in the city of Leeds (UK), this paper considers issues related to the housing of dispersed forced migrants. The term 'dispersed forced migrants' is used here as a general label to include four groups of international migrants (i.e. refugees, asylum seekers, those with humanitarian protection status and failed asylum seekers) who have previously been dispersed, on a no choice basis, to a variety of locat…
Rereading Relationships
Through a ten-year period and in contexts of increased sedentism and monetization, Kubo people have altered the emphases of identity construction. An emphasis upon the social identity of individuals as a basis for action has shifted toward expressions of the importance of groups. An emphasis upon the future in the constitution of personal relationships and identity has shifted toward expressions of the importance of the past. And an emphasis upon…
Boars, Barrows, and Breeders
With a few possible exceptions, the breeding systems of domestic pigs represented in mainland New Guinea fall into one of three categories. In the first, all pigs in the care of people are the progeny of matings between wild boars and wild sows, and the captive population is fully alienated from breeding. In the second, some pigs in the care of people are the progency of matings between wild boars and domestic sows, and the remainder are the prog…
Ethnoclassification, Ethnoecology and the Imagination
Deux trajectoires de pensée en ethnoclassification, l'une associée à l'approche de Brent Berlin, l'autre à l'approche de Ralph Bulmer, ont influencé les développements, respectivement en anthropologie cognitive (y compris en psychologie évolutionniste) et en ethnoécologie. La première approche est traitée brièvement. La deuxième est ici explorée plus en détail. Le but de l'ethnoécologie est de comprendre et d'expliquer l'écologie en tant qu'expér…
Accession 8 Migration and the Proactive and Defensive Engagement of Social Citizenship
Following the expansion of the European Union in 2004 unprecedented numbers of Accession 8 migrants from Central and Eastern Europe entered the UK. These migrants are often concentrated in particular urban neighbourhoods, which are already routinely home to diverse communities and/or characterised by high levels of social deprivation. Using original data from a study in a northern English city, this paper explores the ways in which established co…
Retired EU migrants, healthcare rights and European social citizenship
Drawing on a set of 210 qualitative interviews conducted in \nsix European countries, this paper investigates the citizenship status and \nexperiences of retired EU migrants at both national and European levels. The \npaper focuses upon the experiences of two types of respondents: ‘Retired \nMigrants’ (retired nationals of one EU country who moved on retirement and \nreside in another EU host state) and ‘Returnees’, that is, those migrants who \n…
New Patterns of Youth Transition in Education
Current research provides evidence that new relationships are being forged between youth people and education. Increased participation in post-compulsory education, combinations of work and study and uncertain career outcomes havebecome common experiences. There is an emerging disparity between the stated goals of education and the changing priorities and choices of young people. In particular, the linear notion of transitions, expressed in the m…
Post‐compulsory education policy in Australia and its impact on participant pathways and outcomes in the 1990s
The substantial redefinition of youth and education policy in Australia over the past decade has been associated with an increased emphasis on university entrance and the adoption of a sequential model of pathways between the two worlds of study and work. Because these new policy settings have been in operation for sufficient time now to warrant examination of their effectiveness in terms of participant outcomes, this article examines them in the…
Theorizing social change
We outline primary features of a theoretical perspective on processes of social change in human systems that deals with broadly defined kinds of process, the nature of variants that are expressed and consolidate as change occurs, and, with specific reference to agency, the ways in which intentional actors are implicated in the changes that befall them. Our aim is to contribute to a general theory of process that is not prejudiced by the possible …
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
In this paper, decision-making by Australian commercial fishers is explored with reference to aspects of risk or uncertainty that characterize their experience of the physical and biological environment, the socioeconomic environment and the environment of management. In these environments decisions are grounded in, respectively and particularly, skill, strategy and (often) recklessness. In a broader frame it is argued that ways in which fishers …
Southern African social movements at the 2007 Nairobi World Social Forum
How relevant is the anti-globalization movement to the ideas and activities of social movements seeking to achieve economic justice and greater democratic accountability in southern Africa? Case study research in four southern African countries (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Swaziland) indicates that, while aspects of the anti-globalization approach resonate with civil society and social movement actors (for example, an emphasis on mass participat…
The Price of Protein
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Beetles, Butterflies and Bats
An analysis of Rofaifo mammal taxonomy
Analysis of a New Guinea folk classification of mammals reveals considerable correspondence for entities perceived and labeled by folk and scientific zoologists, but notable differences in the cognitive status accorded those entities in the two classificatory systems. The cognitive status of folk categories may be best understood in a relativistic frame rather than by assigning them to fixed positions within a formalized hierarchy of conceptual s…
Etolo hunting performance and energetics
Frog" and "Lizard
Andaman Islanders, Pygmies, and an extension of Horn's model
Choice and constraint in a Papua New Guinean food quest
The contribution of non‐domesticated animals to the diet of Etolo, southern highlands province, Papua New Guinea
Non‐domesticated animals eaten by three Etolo communities were recorded and estimates provided of the contribution these animals made to each person's daily intake of protein. At one community of 109 people, medium‐sized mammals yielded, on average, 6 g protein/person/day for a 52‐week period. The supply from this source was regular through time and was twice the protein yield received from domestic pigs. Key words: Papua New Guineahuman ecologyh…
Odds and Ends
Major taphonomic influences upon stone artefacts have been usually regarded as physical - fire, water, earth and air. Treadage and scuffage by people or other biological agents may be important but active displacement of stone artefacts by animals has received little attention. Cane (1982) described the use of artefacts as gastroliths by the Australian bustard and Horton (1978) has raised the possibility that seals and some sea birds may move art…
A Hunt in New Guinea
For one case study the motives for going hunting, the choice of companions and the subsequent distribution of the catch are shown to have been strongly connected. The inquiry strategy of 'optimal foraging theory' takes little account of either motives or distribution. To accommodate these components of hunting behaviour within a functionalist perspective, practitioners of 'optimal foraging theory' may have to incorporate sociobiological notions i…
Bower birds, bones and archaeology
On Hunting Ability, Reproductive Success, and Statistics
Yams and megapode mounds in the lowland rain forest of Papua New Guinea
Hunting in lowland, tropical rain forest
Ecology and community dynamics of Kubo people in the tropical lowlands of Papua New Guinea
Konai, Febi And Kubo
Au Sud-Ouest de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee, dans le Strickland Bosavi, 18 populations forment la famille linguistique du Bosavi. L'etude concernant les Konai, Febi et Kubo au Nord-Ouest de cette region, vise a clarifier la distribution linguistique en terme d'auto-identification, a partir de la litterature existante. Bien que l'identite clanique prime sur l'identite linguistique, l'affiliation clanique et linguistique se recoupe. D'apres sa lan…
The New Managerialism and the Rhetoric of Outcomes in Post-compulsory Education Policy
Ownership, Individual Effort and the Organization of Labour among Kubo Sago Producers of Papua New Guinea
At a remote Kubo community, in the interior lowlands of Papua New Guinea, access to sago palms was influenced by rights to the land on which the palms grew and kinship was the primary determinant of the composition of sago-processing work groups. An outcome of these patterns was that women with stronger connections to local land produced more sago flour than did other resident women. It is suggested that, among Kubo, a failure to generalise the u…
Boars, Barrows, and Breeders
With a few possible exceptions, the breeding systems of domestic pigs represented in mainland New Guinea fall into one of three categories. In the first, all pigs in the care of people are the progeny of matings between wild boars and wild sows, and the captive population is fully alienated from breeding. In the second, some pigs in the care of people are the progency of matings between wild boars and domestic sows, and the remainder are the prog…
Sago games
Women, Pigs, God and Evolution
This paper depicts connections and interactions between several apparently disparate themes of change observed in recent years at a village in the interior lowlands of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Changes in patterns of association between men and women can be traced, in the first instance, to altered management practices necessitated by intensified pig production. That intensification, in turn, reflects the growing importance of money in …
Outside the Educational Mainstream
(1997). Outside the Educational Mainstream: foreclosed options in youth policy. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 71-85
Post‐compulsory education policy in Australia and its impact on participant pathways and outcomes in the 1990s
The substantial redefinition of youth and education policy in Australia over the past decade has been associated with an increased emphasis on university entrance and the adoption of a sequential model of pathways between the two worlds of study and work. Because these new policy settings have been in operation for sufficient time now to warrant examination of their effectiveness in terms of participant outcomes, this article examines them in the…
Conditional citizens? welfare rights and responsibilities in the late 1990s
In Britain the relationship between welfare rights and responsibilities has undergone change. A new welfare 'consensus' that emphasizes a citizen ship centred on notions of duty rather than rights has been built. This has allowed the state to reduce its role as a provider of welfare and also defend a position in which the welfare rights of some citizens are increas ingly conditional on those individuals meeting compulsory responsibili ties or dut…
Waiting for Company
Les Kubo sont une petite population de chasseurs cueilleurs qui vivent dans les Basses-Terres interieures de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee. Jusqu'a present ils sont restes largement en dehors du developpement et de l'occidentalisation qui ont eu lieu dans de nombreuses parties du pays. Cependant, faute de se materialiser, la modernite a eu un impact significatif dans la region. Dans cet article nous caracterisons d'abord les relations des Kubo avec l…
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