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

There have been few ethnographic monographs about Port Moresby and those that do exist have tended to marginalize or ignore gender. Yet as feminist geographers make clear, women and men are positioned differently in the world and their relationship to the places in which they live is also different. The book has no predecessors and stands alone in the Pacific as an account of this kind. As such, The New Port Moresby should be read by scholars and students of diverse disciplines interested in urbanization, gender, and the Pacific"--

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780824889807
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-8980-7
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 281 g
• Series: Topics in the Contemporary Pac
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories