The New Port Moresby - Gender, Space, and Belonging in Urban Papua New Guinea

The New Port Moresby explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea.

About the author

Ceridwen Spark is Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Summary

Explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship, the book adds to an emerging literature on cities in the "Global South" as sites of oppression, but also resistance, aspiration, and activism.

Product details

• Authors: Ceridwen Spark
• Assisted by: Jack Corbett (Editor), Brij V Lal (Editor), Brij V. Lal (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780824881801
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-8180-1
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 376 g
• Series: Topics in the Contemporary Pac; Topics in the Contemporary Pacific
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories