M Goddard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Goddard |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Goddard |
| SIGNATURE | GODDARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7882-2464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 38 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Integrating Urban Agriculture into Neighborhood Planning for Sustainable Development
Urban agriculture has emerged as a global movement in recent decades, addressing multifarious challenges posed by rapid urbanization. This research explores the potential of urban agriculture in the Al-Bastanah neighborhood of Al-Za'faraniya, Baghdad, through a comprehensive case study. It investigates how urban agriculture can be seamlessly integrated into the neighborhood planning process, paving the way for a sustainable and resilient urban fu…
Substantial Justice
Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. This anthropological study is grounded in ethnographic research on three different village courts and the communities they serve. It also explores the col…
Urban Anthropology
This entry discusses the nature and development of Melanesian urbanity, which has been represented through anthropological research since the late colonial period. As foreigners established towns in Melanesia for colonial purposes, Melanesians were regarded as “villagers” and were assumed to lack urban sensibilities. On the basis of Western‐derived criteria of urbanity, questions were raised as to the ability of Melanesians to adjust to town life…
Certain Malays and South Sea Islanders”
Non-European foreigners were integral in the late-19th-century encounter between European colonizers and indigenes in the southern part of what is now Papua New Guinea (png). They were initially rendered anonymous by collective descriptive terms like “Malays” and “South Sea Islanders”, but the handful of colonial administrators in the 1880s were soon relying significantly on the service and local knowledge of these so-called “alien natives”, many…
Trans TV dossier, III
When we organised the conference on Trans TV at the University of Westminster in 2017, our aims were both to bridge frequently fragmented discussions of contemporary televisual industries, audiences, fandom, representation and content, and to probe whether in the age of internet-distributed streaming television there were more spaces for expressions of diversity than had previously been the case during the network television era, or even in the s…
Streaming intersectionality
Following the first Trans TV dossier, this dossier shifts the focus from transformations of television industries, institutions, fans and audiences to questions of queer and trans* aesthetics and representation in contemporary television. It entails an intersectional approach, but one that looks at what happens to intersectional genealogies in the era of streamed, internet-distributed television. Do the post-network or even post-medium transforma…
The Dialectic of a Descent Dogma Among the Motu-Koita of Papua New Guinea
Descent dogmas have become visible in recent years among Melanesian societies affected by large-scale natural resource extraction, but it should not be assumed that they are all immediate responses by landowners attempting to restrict access to royalties or other monetary benefits. This article traces the development of a patrilineal descent dogma among the Motu-Koita, whose traditional territory includes Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua N…
The Opposition
Introduction
This dossier is the first of two to emerge out of the recent Trans TV conference held at the University of Westminster in September 2017. The focus of this specific dossier is in tracking the latest developments and emergent trends affecting contemporary television, especially as delivered via new online streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon. The article and series of interventions within this dossier set out to challenge both popular and…
Legal Dissonance. The Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea, written by Shaun Larcom
Storibuk Pairundu
The Pedagogy, Culture and Appropriation of Jazz in Papua New Guinea
Utilising first hand experience the authors trace the attempted development of 'serious' jazz in PNG. Incorporating scholarly, promotional and 'musicianly' perspectives, they highlight the tension present in the PNG jazz scene
Reflections on a Dead Dog
This article is driven by the equivocal possibility of doing analytic justice to the cosmo-ontology of the Motu-Koita, of Papua New Guinea, as it was when early missionaries and colonial officers credited south-east-coastal indigenes only with unsystematized beliefs and superstitions about invisible forces. It focuses on an incident in which traditional ‘sorcerers’ were put to the test by the early colonial administration, which was trying to des…
Opening up the black boxes
This article examines the emergent field of media archaeology as offering a materialist approach to new media and specifically the Internet, constituting a ‘travelling discipline’ or ‘indiscipline’ rather than a new disciplinary paradigm. Following the lead of Siegfried Zielinski, it provides less an archaeology than an ‘anarchaeology’ of media archaeology, understanding this term in political as well as methodological terms. To do so, it charts …
Knowing and the truth
Courts of law in Melanesian countries, particularly in the aftermath of the colonial period, have attempted to accommodate ‘custom’. In Papua New Guinea they commonly hear land claims under terms of reference that acknowledge the wide variety of customs among the many ethno‐linguistic groups comprising the nation. A corollary of this liberalism is that, in theory, they admit ‘traditional evidence’ including legends and myths. Yet as courts of law…
And Beyond
The trajectory of Bifo's thought and practice contains valuable material not only in relation to cultural studies and contemporary thought but also in relation to political and aesthetic projects seeking alternative futures to those imposed by the contemporary military-economic technostructure
Michael Dunmore Monsell-Davis
Cinematic and aesthetic cartographies of subjective mutation
Cultural Shimmer
Historicizing Edai Siabo
In the 1970s the Motu‐Koita, traditional inhabitants of what is now the National Capital District of Papua New Guinea, inaugurated a yearly cultural festival thematically based on traditional coastal trading voyages known as hiri . Contestation over the location and commercialization of the festival in the capital city developed in the new century as one distant village claimed to ‘own’ the hiri . The Motu‐Koita view of their past and their ident…
Childhood in Papua New Guinea
" Childhood in Papua New Guinea: personal accounts of growing up in a changing society. Edited by Helen Sheils Fenbury.." The Journal of Pacific History, 46(3), pp. 414–415
Exchanging skin
From ‘My Story’ to ‘The Story of Myself’—Colonial Transformations of Personal Narratives among the Motu-Koita of Papua New Guinea
Since the late colonial period, there have been a significant number of publications which could be roughly classified as Melanesian autobiography. 1 The majority of these have, in fact, been encouraged and commonly written down, edited and substantively organised, by European acquaintances of the subjects. The observation that the phenomenon of Melanesian autobiography is a product of the colonial encounter is a statement of the obvious. Further…
Le Fidjien fou avec le singe et autres histoires à propos d’une petite île près de Port Moresby (Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée)
Pendant les premières années de l’administration coloniale, les Britanniques et, plus tard, les Australiens, avaient pour politique de ne pas enlever de terres aux habitants de la Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée sans leur accord. Par exemple, dans la région où se trouve actuellement la capitale, Port Moresby, ils négocièrent avec les propriétaires fonciers locaux, les Motu-Koita, l’achat de terres et s’assurèrent également que certaines terres étaient …
"Introduction to Franco Berardi (Bifo)'s "Schizo-Economy
Introduction to Franco Berardi (Bifo)'s “Schizo-Economy” Translated by Michael Goddard (bio) The following is a translation from Bifo's recent book Il Sapiente, Il Mercante, Il Guerriero [The Sage, the Merchant, and the Warrior] (Rome: DeriveApprodi, 2004). This book is, as Bifo says, really two books in one. It is both a genealogy of power and resistance since the 1960s (and in this sense, a rewriting of Bifo's earlier La Nefasta Utopia di Poter…
Of Cabbages and Kin
This article argues for the maintenance of the traditional anthropological analytic distinction between gifts and commodities, against a recent trend to refer to all objects as commodities when exchange is their socially relevant feature. It examines Marx's notions of alienation and commodity fetishism in the context of human praxis and suggests that rigorous, rather than impressionistic, use of these analytic concepts in anthropology can clarify…
Opening up the black boxes
This article examines the emergent field of media archaeology as offering a materialist approach to new media and specifically the Internet, constituting a ‘travelling discipline’ or ‘indiscipline’ rather than a new disciplinary paradigm. Following the lead of Siegfried Zielinski, it provides less an archaeology than an ‘anarchaeology’ of media archaeology, understanding this term in political as well as methodological terms. To do so, it charts …
Big-Man, Thief
Le developpement des gangs n'est pas seulement lie au chomage et a la pauvrete a Port Moresby (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee). Les gens integrent un tel groupe car ils s'ennuient dans leur travail et car leurs revenus ne suffisent pas a satisfaire les obligations de parente. L'integration ne connait pas d'investiture rituelle et la notion de membre reste floue meme s'il existe un chef, compare au « big man » melanesien, entrepreneur genereux qui etab…
Off The Record
La naissance de cet article est due au constat de fausses statistiques dans les documents juficiaires officiels sur les pratiques de droit coutumier sanctionnant la sorcellerie au village de Konedobu, nouveau quartier de Port Moresby. Le tribunal villageois (mis en place par le gouvernement a la fin de la periode coloniale) a integre et introduit des lois et des pratiques juridiques issues des procedures officielles, adaptees au contexte social e…
Le Fidjien fou avec le singe et autres histoires à propos d’une petite île près de Port Moresby (Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée)
Pendant les premières années de l’administration coloniale, les Britanniques et, plus tard, les Australiens, avaient pour politique de ne pas enlever de terres aux habitants de la Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée sans leur accord. Par exemple, dans la région où se trouve actuellement la capitale, Port Moresby, ils négocièrent avec les propriétaires fonciers locaux, les Motu-Koita, l’achat de terres et s’assurèrent également que certaines terres étaient …
Bedlam in paradise
Introduction
This dossier is the first of two to emerge out of the recent Trans TV conference held at the University of Westminster in September 2017. The focus of this specific dossier is in tracking the latest developments and emergent trends affecting contemporary television, especially as delivered via new online streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon. The article and series of interventions within this dossier set out to challenge both popular and…
What Makes Hari Run
■ The substance of this article is a narrative about a man considered mad in a highland Papua New Guinea society, and about his interaction with his com munity and with an anthropologist who tried unsuccessfully to change the com munity's negative attitude towards him. It is argued that his madness was socially constructed, and cannot be adequately explained using a psychiatric paradigm, even if the psychiatric approach were modified to accommoda…
Streaming intersectionality
Following the first Trans TV dossier, this dossier shifts the focus from transformations of television industries, institutions, fans and audiences to questions of queer and trans* aesthetics and representation in contemporary television. It entails an intersectional approach, but one that looks at what happens to intersectional genealogies in the era of streamed, internet-distributed television. Do the post-network or even post-medium transforma…
A Suitable Case For Treatment
Presentant plusieurs cas de « folies » a Tambul, l'A. montre le decalage qui existe entre la theorie de la psychiatrie transculturelle et la pratique : alors que la premiere devrait considerer les facteurs culturels de la maladie, la seconde se contente de maitriser un comportement violent et anormal
The semantic focus of maternal speech
Ninio & Bruner (1978) added an important dimension to the study of early lexical acquisition by drawing attention to the dialogue-like nature of the mother-child interactions where presumably much language-learning takes place. The authors pointed to the well-established findings that much of the child's early speech consists of names for people and objects (Leopold 1949, Werner & Kaplan 1963, Nelson 1973, Greenfield & Smith 1976). They went on t…
Bedlam in paradise
Big-Man, Thief
Le developpement des gangs n'est pas seulement lie au chomage et a la pauvrete a Port Moresby (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee). Les gens integrent un tel groupe car ils s'ennuient dans leur travail et car leurs revenus ne suffisent pas a satisfaire les obligations de parente. L'integration ne connait pas d'investiture rituelle et la notion de membre reste floue meme s'il existe un chef, compare au « big man » melanesien, entrepreneur genereux qui etab…
A Suitable Case For Treatment
Presentant plusieurs cas de « folies » a Tambul, l'A. montre le decalage qui existe entre la theorie de la psychiatrie transculturelle et la pratique : alors que la premiere devrait considerer les facteurs culturels de la maladie, la seconde se contente de maitriser un comportement violent et anormal
The Snake Bone Case
One of the outcomes of judgmental administrative attitudes toward indigenous praxis in colonial Papua New Guinea was a convention that an antagonistic relationship existed between European law and ‘native custom‘. By the end of the colonial period the defence of ‘custom’ had become part of an anti‐colonial polemic among indigenous intellectuals and politicians. The Village Court system was established in this rhetorical climate. Its mission, rein…
Off The Record
La naissance de cet article est due au constat de fausses statistiques dans les documents juficiaires officiels sur les pratiques de droit coutumier sanctionnant la sorcellerie au village de Konedobu, nouveau quartier de Port Moresby. Le tribunal villageois (mis en place par le gouvernement a la fin de la periode coloniale) a integre et introduit des lois et des pratiques juridiques issues des procedures officielles, adaptees au contexte social e…
What Makes Hari Run
■ The substance of this article is a narrative about a man considered mad in a highland Papua New Guinea society, and about his interaction with his com munity and with an anthropologist who tried unsuccessfully to change the com munity's negative attitude towards him. It is argued that his madness was socially constructed, and cannot be adequately explained using a psychiatric paradigm, even if the psychiatric approach were modified to accommoda…
Of Cabbages and Kin
This article argues for the maintenance of the traditional anthropological analytic distinction between gifts and commodities, against a recent trend to refer to all objects as commodities when exchange is their socially relevant feature. It examines Marx's notions of alienation and commodity fetishism in the context of human praxis and suggests that rigorous, rather than impressionistic, use of these analytic concepts in anthropology can clarify…
Rethinking Western Motu Descent Groups
The Motu‐Koitabu are the traditional inhabitants of the site of Papua New Guinea's capital city, Port Moresby, and well represented in a body of literature, from the 1870s on, encompassing oral history, archaeology and social anthropology. A basic unit of Motu‐Koitabu society is the iduhu, a corporate group which is nowadays conventionally glossed locally as a ‘clan’ in English, but represented in anthropological literature as more ambiguous in n…
Reto's Chance
According to the ‘state‐in‐society’ model developed by Joel Migdal, states cannot be analytically regarded as separate from the societies they govern and have to be viewed in their social contexts. Migdal's model has been well received by scholars discussing governance and, especially, social control, in Melanesia. An anthropological qualification which could be applied to the model is that local elements of state in Melanesia are socially permea…
United and Divided
The Motu and the Hula, two south coast Papua New Guinea societies, are linguistically related, have similar social organisation and were economically linked before European colonisation. They were both introduced to Christianity by the London Missionary Society in the late 19th century, and each appeared to incorporate the new religion into their social life and thought quickly and unproblematically. More than a century later, however, generaliti…
Research and Rhetoric on Women in Papua New Guinea's Village Courts
This paper addresses a recent and popular rhetoric in academic literature that women are discriminated against, often in the name of ‘custom‘, in the male-dominated village courts of Papua New Guinea. The rhetoric is interrogated with reference to academic research findings and reports since the early days of the legislatively introduced village court system, and to data from the author's own research in recent years. On the basis of these two so…
Diagram for a Transversal, Molecular Feminism? Guattari's Refrain and the Machinic-Feminine in Witkiewicz's The Pragmatists
The article explores the relations between the work of Guattari and feminism via the work of Stanislaw Witkiewicz who Guattari wrote about in Szchizoanalytic Cartographies. It argues that more interesting than what Guattari wrote about feminism is his engagment with gender in terms of a mapping of semiotic forces that Guattari discern in the work of Witkiewicz and which are suggestive of a molecular, machinic feminism
Le Fidjien fou avec le singe et autres histoires à propos d’une petite île près de Port Moresby (Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée)
Pendant les premières années de l’administration coloniale, les Britanniques et, plus tard, les Australiens, avaient pour politique de ne pas enlever de terres aux habitants de la Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée sans leur accord. Par exemple, dans la région où se trouve actuellement la capitale, Port Moresby, ils négocièrent avec les propriétaires fonciers locaux, les Motu-Koita, l’achat de terres et s’assurèrent également que certaines terres étaient …
"Introduction to Franco Berardi (Bifo)'s "Schizo-Economy
Introduction to Franco Berardi (Bifo)'s “Schizo-Economy” Translated by Michael Goddard (bio) The following is a translation from Bifo's recent book Il Sapiente, Il Mercante, Il Guerriero [The Sage, the Merchant, and the Warrior] (Rome: DeriveApprodi, 2004). This book is, as Bifo says, really two books in one. It is both a genealogy of power and resistance since the 1960s (and in this sense, a rewriting of Bifo's earlier La Nefasta Utopia di Poter…
From ‘My Story’ to ‘The Story of Myself’—Colonial Transformations of Personal Narratives among the Motu-Koita of Papua New Guinea
Since the late colonial period, there have been a significant number of publications which could be roughly classified as Melanesian autobiography. 1 The majority of these have, in fact, been encouraged and commonly written down, edited and substantively organised, by European acquaintances of the subjects. The observation that the phenomenon of Melanesian autobiography is a product of the colonial encounter is a statement of the obvious. Further…
Exchanging skin
Cultural Shimmer
Historicizing Edai Siabo
In the 1970s the Motu‐Koita, traditional inhabitants of what is now the National Capital District of Papua New Guinea, inaugurated a yearly cultural festival thematically based on traditional coastal trading voyages known as hiri . Contestation over the location and commercialization of the festival in the capital city developed in the new century as one distant village claimed to ‘own’ the hiri . The Motu‐Koita view of their past and their ident…
Childhood in Papua New Guinea
" Childhood in Papua New Guinea: personal accounts of growing up in a changing society. Edited by Helen Sheils Fenbury.." The Journal of Pacific History, 46(3), pp. 414–415
Cinematic and aesthetic cartographies of subjective mutation
Knowing and the truth
Courts of law in Melanesian countries, particularly in the aftermath of the colonial period, have attempted to accommodate ‘custom’. In Papua New Guinea they commonly hear land claims under terms of reference that acknowledge the wide variety of customs among the many ethno‐linguistic groups comprising the nation. A corollary of this liberalism is that, in theory, they admit ‘traditional evidence’ including legends and myths. Yet as courts of law…
And Beyond
The trajectory of Bifo's thought and practice contains valuable material not only in relation to cultural studies and contemporary thought but also in relation to political and aesthetic projects seeking alternative futures to those imposed by the contemporary military-economic technostructure
Michael Dunmore Monsell-Davis
Reflections on a Dead Dog
This article is driven by the equivocal possibility of doing analytic justice to the cosmo-ontology of the Motu-Koita, of Papua New Guinea, as it was when early missionaries and colonial officers credited south-east-coastal indigenes only with unsystematized beliefs and superstitions about invisible forces. It focuses on an incident in which traditional ‘sorcerers’ were put to the test by the early colonial administration, which was trying to des…
Sociology (27 works) · History (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Ethnology (19 works) · Law (19 works) · New guinea (17 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (16 works) · Archaeology (15 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (15 works) · Philosophy (12 works)