George N Curry

Biographic Data

ID628430
NAMEGeorge N Curry
GIVEN NAMESGeorge N
FAMILY NAMECurry
SIGNATURECURRY G N
AFFILIATIONSCurtin University
ORCID0000-0001-5528-3122
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS299
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX10

  • Disruptive innovation in agriculture: Socio-cultural factors in technology adoption in the developing world

    Open AccessGeorge N Curry, Steven Nake et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2021Cited by: 8References: 19

  • Women's and Men's Work: The Production and Marketing of Fresh Food and Export Crops in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessGeorge N Curry, Gina Koczberski et al.ARTICLEOceania2019

    Fresh food markets have been a fixture of the social and economic landscape of urban and rural PNG since colonial times. They were often the first points of engagement with the market economy, especially for women, who as small‐scale producers, sold surplus produce from their food gardens located on communally‐owned land. Although local food markets have remained an important livelihood for women, the later adoption and expansion of perennial exp…

  • Change and continuity in the Pacific: Revisiting the region

    George N CurryARTICLEAustralian Geographer2019

    This edited collection has 12 contributors reporting on longitudinal studies of change and continuity in communities across the Pacific. The genesis for the book was the editors’ wish to bring toge

  • Forging alliances: Coffee grower and chain leader partnerships to improve productivity and coffee quality in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessReuben Wanobo Sengere, George N Curry et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Viewpoint2019Cited by: 5References: 11

    Partnership discourse is making advances in development dialogue as a means to improve the livelihoods of the agrarian populace. In Papua New Guinea, productive partnerships flourished during the early growth of the coffee industry. After the demise of plantations and rural mills in the lead up to political independence, the support services that plantations used to provide to smallholders, including centralised processing, have ceased as have pr…

  • Diffusing Risk and Building Resilience through Innovation: Reciprocal Exchange Relationships, Livelihood Vulnerability and Food Security amongst Smallholder Farmers in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessGina Koczberski, George N Curry et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2018

  • Informal Land Markets in Papua New Guinea

    Gina Koczberski, Georgina Numbasa et al.CHAPTERKastom, property and ideology2017

  • Intra‐household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessSean Ryan, Gina Koczberski et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Viewpoint2017Cited by: 8References: 14

    This paper examines intra‐household and socio‐cultural factors leading to differential outcomes in educational attainment by gender and birth order amongst smallholder oil palm households in Papua New Guinea. Not all children share equitably in the household resources allocated to education: females have lower average education levels than males, and high birth order children have higher education attainment than lower birth order siblings, indic…

  • Kastom, property and ideology: Land transformations in Melanesia

    Mcdonnell, Matthew G Allen et al.BOOKKastom, property and ideology2017Cited by: 20References: 43

    The relationship between customary land tenure and 'modern' forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the 'Spearhead' states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new 'land rush' or 'land grab' in developing countries

  • Changing Generational Values and New Masculinities Amongst Smallholder Export Cash Crop Producers in Papua New Guinea

    Gina Koczberski, George N CurryARTICLECanberra Anthropology2016Cited by: 5References: 25

    This article is concerned with changing generational values and aspirations and intergenerational conflicts among migrant farmers in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Drawing on fieldwork amongst oil palm smallholders, the paper begins by documenting how economic pressures and a conjunction of social changes are leading younger men to challenge indigenous relations of authority and obligation that underpin father-son relationships. Ris…

  • A bridge too far? The influence of socio-cultural values on the adaptation responses of smallholders to a devastating pest outbreak in cocoa

    Open AccessGeorge N Curry, Gina Koczberski et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Cited by: 13References: 24

  • Development Implications of the Engagement with Capitalism: Improving the Social Returns of Development

    George N Curry, Gina KoczberskiCHAPTEREngaging with Capitalism2013

    Purpose – The authors conclude the “Engaging with Capitalism” volume with a discussion of social theory focusing on the implications of the volume for practices in international and community development.Approach – This chapter draws together some of the key themes in this collection to identify the development implications of the efforts of local communities to socially embed their engagement with capitalism and markets to better serve their soc…

  • Oil palm and rural livelihoods in the A sia– P acific region: An overview

    Open AccessRob Cramb, George N CurryARTICLEAsia Pacific Viewpoint2012Cited by: 22References: 19

    The expansion of oil palm cultivation in the A sia– P acific region in the past half century has engendered a major agro‐environmental transformation with significant implications for rural livelihoods. The transformation has taken different forms within and between countries, depending on local contexts, as well as involving an important transnational dimension in terms of regional flows of labour and capital, transboundary and global environmen…

  • Oil palm, food security and adaptation among smallholder households in P apua N ew G uinea

    Open AccessGina Koczberski, George N Curry et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Viewpoint2012Cited by: 8References: 2

    This paper is concerned with food security and access to land for food crop gardening among first and second generation migrant oil palm producers in W est N ew B ritain P rovince, P apua N ew G uinea. We examine changes in food security due to the rapid population growth in the presence of growing demand for land for oil palm production. Despite oil palm providing the major source of income for most migrant households, food crop gardening remain…

  • Introduction: Enacting modernity in the Pacific

    George N Curry, Gina Koczberski et al.ARTICLEAustralian Geographer2012Cited by: 5References: 35

    Rural and urban communities in the culturally and economically diverse Pacific region are experiencing significant economic, environmental and social change as they grapple with the challenges and opportunities of globalisation, modernity and environmental change.Earlier views of an inevitable and linear transformation of indigenous societies as they became incorporated through globalisation of economies, societies and cultures are now giving way…

  • Changing Land Tenure and Informal Land Markets in the Oil Palm Frontier Regions of Papua New Guinea: The challenge for land reform

    Gina Koczberski, George N Curry et al.ARTICLEAustralian Geographer2012Cited by: 1References: 21

    This paper reports on the authors’ ongoing research with agricultural extension services, customary landowners and migrant farmers to develop a template for a Land Usage Agreement (LUA) that seeks to reconcile customary landowners’ and migrants’ differing interpretations of the moral basis of land rights. The LUA shows a way forward for land reform that builds on customary tenure while strengthening the temporary use rights of migrants to enable …

  • Relational Economies, Social Embeddedness and Valuing Labour in Agrarian Change: An Example from the Developing World

    Open AccessGeorge N Curry, Gina KoczberskiARTICLEGeographical Research2012Cited by: 9References: 63

    A relatively neglected area of research on agrarian and economic change is the role of indigenous concepts of labour value in the transition from subsistence to market production. In West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, the presence of a migrant population on an oil palm land settlement scheme (LSS) in close proximity to village-based oil palm growers, provided an opportunity to examine changing notions of labour value through the lens of…

  • Australian Geographical Studies/Geographical Research Referees 2003-2009

    Open AccessArthur Conacher, George N Curry et al.ARTICLEGeographical Research2010Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Property rights for social inclusion: Migrant strategies for securing land and livelihoods in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessGina Koczberski, George N Curry et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Viewpoint2009Cited by: 17References: 14

    This paper examines the broad range of informal land transactions and arrangements migrants are entering into with customary landowners to gain access to customary land for export cash cropping in the oil palm belt of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Whilst these arrangements can provide migrants with relatively secure access to land, there are instances of migrants losing their land rights. Typically, the land tenure arrangements of migrants …

  • Finding common ground: Relational concepts of land tenure and economy in the oil palm frontier of Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessGeorge N Curry, Gina KoczberskiARTICLEGeographical Journal2009Cited by: 31References: 36

    In the oil palm frontier regions of West New Britain and Oro provinces, Papua New Guinea, customary land tenure arrangements are changing in response to the growing demand for land for agricultural development. This paper examines one aspect of these changes, namely the gifting and selling of customary land for oil palm development to people who have no customary birthrights to the land. By analysing how access rights are maintained over the rela…

  • Reluctant Subjects or Passive Resistance: A commentary on J.K. Gibson‐Graham's “Surplus possibilities: Postdevelopment and community economies”

    Open AccessGeorge N CurryARTICLESingapore Journal of Tropical…2005

    A commentary on J.K. Gibson-Graham's "Surplus possibilities: Postdevelopment and community economies"

  • Divided communities and contested landscapes: Mobility, development and shifting identities in migrant destination sites in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessGina Koczberski, George N CurryARTICLEAsia Pacific Viewpoint2004Cited by: 18References: 7

    Internal conflicts at the local and national levels in several South Pacific countries have revealed the fragility of national unity and the difficulties nations face in governing and managing their own economic development. In Papua New Guinea, the focus of this paper, an uncertain economic future for many rural and urban communities, and rising inequalities in income opportunities and access to resources, have coincided with greater intolerance…

  • Moving Beyond Postdevelopment: "Facilitating Indigenous Alternatives for "Development

    Open AccessGeorge N CurryARTICLEEconomic Geography2003Cited by: 57References: 59

    Using the example of smallholder oil-palm production in Papua New Guinea, this article illustrates how elements of a market economy and modernity become enmeshed and partly transformed by local place-based nonmarket practices. The persistence, even efflorescence, of indigenous gift exchange, in tandem with greater participation in the market economy, challenges conventional notions about the structures and meanings of development. The introduced …

  • Full Circle or Spiralling Out of Control? State Violence and the Control of Urbanisation in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessGina Koczberski, George N Curry et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2001Cited by: 15References: 23

    There is an administrative reluctance to recognise the permanency of urban settlement in Papua New Guinea. This reluctance, evident since the 1960s, has been characteristic of both the colonial and post-colonial administrations. Opposition to some facets of urbanisation continues today, despite growing population and land pressures in most rural areas and real problems of landlessness emerging in particular rural areas. Colonial control of urban …

  • Cashing Out, Cashing In: Rural change on the south coast of Western Australia

    George N Curry, Gina Koczberski et al.ARTICLEAustralian Geographer2001Cited by: 26

    Over the past century the cultural and physical landscape of the Shire of Denmark on the south coast of Western Australia has been transformed by successive waves of in-migrants. The paper examines the period since the early 1970s when alternative lifestylers and early retirees, attracted by the district's natural beauty and low land prices, began moving in and acquiring former Group Settlement holdings. The activities of these and subsequent 'al…

  • The Risks and Uncertainties of Migration: An Exploration of Recent Trends amongst the Wosera Abelam of Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessGeorge N Curry, George Curry et al.ARTICLEOceania1999

    This paper reports on ongoing research on migration and circulation between the Wosera sub‐district, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, and the island province of West New Britain. We examine the pressures contributing to increased family migration and longer‐term, possibly permanent, migration from the Wosera. While rising resource/population pressure and stricter forms of land tenure arrangements are altering patterns of out‐migration, the …