A Study of Rabaul Market

Epstein, T. Scarlett

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8489.1961.tb00280.x

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“…Anderson, 2008;Epstein, 1961Epstein, , 1982Jackson, 1976;Pollard, 1996;Wang, 2014). The most humble markets include many that have experienced significant neglect, decline, or wanton abuse and destruction over the past three to four decades.…”

Section: Market Places and Market Cultures In The Pacificmentioning

confidence: 94%

Changing market culture in the Pacific: Assembling a conceptual framework from diverse knowledge and experiences

Underhill‐Sem

Cox²,

Lacey

et al. 2014

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Addressing the multiple dimensions of gender inequality requires commitments by policy-makers, practitioners and scholars to transformative practices. One challenge is to assemble a coherent conceptual framework from diverse knowledges and experiences. In this paper, we present a framework that emerged from our involvement in changing market culture in the Pacific, which we name a radical empowerment of women approach. We draw on detailed narratives from women market vendors and women-led new initiatives in marketplaces to explain this approach. We argue that the primary focus of recently developed projects for marketplaces in the Pacific is technical and infrastructural, which is insufficient for addressing gendered political and economic causes of poor market management and oppressive conditions for women vendors. By exploring the complex array of motives and effects of the desire to transform or improve marketplaces in the Pacific, we caution against simplistic technical or infrastructural solutions. This paper also introduces the practice of working as a cooperative, hybrid research collaboration. The knowledges and analyses that we bring to this issue demonstrate that substantive analysis generated from diverse and shifting 'locations' and roles, but underpinned by a shared vision of, and commitment to, gender justice, can provide distinctive policy and research insights.

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Section: Market Places and Market Cultures In The Pacificmentioning

confidence: 94%

Changing market culture in the Pacific: Assembling a conceptual framework from diverse knowledge and experiences

Underhill‐Sem

Cox²,

Lacey

et al. 2014

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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“…(2014, p. 7) (10 key crops). For Rabaul (in 1961) and Kokopo (in 2009, 2015), see Epstein (1961, p. 49); Scales (2010); Sharp et al. (2022) (fresh food and betel nut only, unpublished figures).…”

Section: Changes In Papua New Guinean Marketplacesmentioning

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“…When Epstein (1961Epstein ( , 1982 and Brookfield (1969b) sketched the characteristics of Melanesian marketplaces, PNGʼs urban centres were small colonial towns (see Connell, 1997, p. 189). In 1971, four years before independence, the two largest urban centres, Port Moresby and Lae, had populations of only 76,507 and 38,707, respectively.…”

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Market update: Sixty years of change in Papua New Guineaʼs fresh food marketplaces

Sharp

Busse

Bourke

2022

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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Open‐air marketplaces are vital to food security, livelihoods, and the national economy in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Over the past 60 years, rapid growth of urban populations, changes in global commodity prices, and the decline in value of the PNG currency have stimulated demand for domestic fresh food. Selling fresh food in marketplaces has also become an attractive way to earn money for rural producers, whose returns on labour on their export crops have declined, and for urban residents struggling to make a living. This in turn has led to significant changes in PNGʼs marketplaces: spatial and temporal changes, changes in what is bought and sold, changes in who is selling, and changes in how food is transacted. In this paper, we bring together research on PNGʼs marketplaces from between 1961 and 2022 to document these changes and their causes, alongside important continuities, and to examine the implications and substantial gaps in our knowledge.

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“…The near absence of intermediaries was associated with several interrelated features, which distinguished Melanesian marketplaces from their counterparts elsewhere in the developing world: haggling was absent, sellers sold passively rather than using hard-sell techniques, there was little overt competition amongst either sellers or buyers and sellers were reluctant to drop prices instead preferring to give away unsold produce or take it home (Brookfield, 1969b;T. S. Epstein, 1961T.…”

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Intermediary trading and the transformation of marketplaces in Papua New Guinea

Sharp

2021

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Trade in marketplaces is central to the domestic distribution of food and other goods throughout the developing world. The commodity networks involved are often complex with numerous intermediate transactions between producer and consumer. By contrast, in the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG), marketplace trade has historically occurred through very short commodity networks. This article examines the appearance and growing significance of intermediary trading in PNG's marketplaces and associated trade networks. Reselling is supporting urban livelihoods at a time when making a living in town is increasingly precarious, but the transformation of marketplaces, I argue, also threatens to reduce the agency of rural producers and erode the incomes of certain producers. Growing intermediation may also see men increasingly involved in an economic domain where women have been central. The emergence of intermediaries is globally an important historical development, and this article provides a rare study of this process within the contemporary era. K E Y W O R D S commodity networks, intermediaries and middlemen, marketplace, Papua New Guinea, rural-urban relations, trade 1 | INTRODUCTION Trade in marketplaces is central to the domestic distribution of food and other goods throughout the developing world. The commodity networks involved are often complex with numerous intermediate transactions between producer and consumer. By contrast, in the independent Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea

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A Study of Rabaul Market

Cited by 9 publications

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Changing market culture in the Pacific: Assembling a conceptual framework from diverse knowledge and experiences

Changing market culture in the Pacific: Assembling a conceptual framework from diverse knowledge and experiences

Market update: Sixty years of change in Papua New Guineaʼs fresh food marketplaces

Intermediary trading and the transformation of marketplaces in Papua New Guinea

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