Gender struggles of educated men in the Papuan highlands

Munro, Jenny

doi:10.22459/tgm.02.2017.02

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“…This occurred amid violence and occupation. Local men were empowered by Indonesian gender ideas even as they were also violated and diminished along racial lines (Karma, 2014;Munro, 2017Munro, , 2019.…”

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From saving to survivance: Rethinking Indigenous Papuan women's vulnerabilities in Jayapura, Indonesia

Munro

Baransano²

2023

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Racism, sexism and gendered violence disadvantage Indigenous Papuan women, yet government responses often focus on individual interventions like ‘raising awareness’ or training. In this article, we build on efforts to challenge these narratives about women's vulnerabilities. We draw on life history interviews with older Papuan women in Jayapura to rethink vulnerabilities and everyday struggles in the context of structural inequalities. We interpret their stories as forms of ‘survivance’ and argue that contrary to dominant perspectives, Papuan women are not economic novices or passive victims. Rather, opportunities have narrowed over time, and women's long history of activity, strategy, persistence and resistance has largely been forgotten. Women's life histories shed light on urban colonialism and Indigenous survivance in Jayapura since the 1940s, when Jayapura was still a Dutch colonial capital and not yet an Indonesian frontier. In a time dominated by concerns about Papuan demise, their experiences are provocative for rethinking vulnerabilities.

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From saving to survivance: Rethinking Indigenous Papuan women's vulnerabilities in Jayapura, Indonesia

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2023

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“…This need is supported by Macintyre (2017: 7), who argues that men's superior social, political and economic status in contemporary Oceanic states reflects the greater number of men who achieved formal education in the years following independence. Anthropologists Stephanie Lusby (2017) and Jenny Munro (2017) further argue that the differences in educational attainment of men and women in the past 50 years have contributed to juxtaposing attitudes that educated men should navigate cultural interactions with modernisation while women should maintain 'tradition'.…”

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Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Craney¹

2022

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YOUTH IN FIJI AND SOLOMON ISLANDSxiv essentialisation of each issue and the failure of interventions to go beyond paper commitments. This was how the seeds were planted for my decision to formally research youth livelihoods, leadership and civic engagement in Oceania. It was also where I first began to form my conceptual framework for understanding these issues through a 'holistic livelihoods' approach and to develop the contention that young Pacific peoples' lives are marked by their 'structural minimisation'-two concepts that I discuss further in the book proper.1 Also known as Fiji Baat (Willans and Prasad 2021).

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Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific

Bainton¹,

McDougall²

2021

Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific

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as Papua New Guinea (PNG) prepared to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Port Moresby, journalists reported on stark disparities that were drawing the ire of the nation. News headlines announced that the national government had just splurged on 40 Maseratis for APEC leaders (Beldi, 2018). Photos showed cargo planes unloading carefully sheathed luxury cars, each one valued at more than 100 times PNG's per capita gross domestic product (GDP). Government officials claimed these were needed to transport visiting dignitaries in 'comfort and safety' (if not style). In a nation where most roads are in disrepair and four-wheel-drives are a transport necessity, rather than a luxury, many people were outraged by the purchase. Meanwhile, in Enga Province, hundreds of kilometres from the APEC hype, a young child died of polio, more than 20 years after the last polio death and 18 years after the country was declared free of polio. His death was not an isolated case; approximately 140 other Papuan New Guineans were reportedly suffering from severe polio symptoms (Murray-Atfield, 2018). The outbreak of this once-vanquished disease, contrasted with such ostentatious displays of wealth in the nation's capital, was a vivid manifestation of a failing health system, entrenched inequalities and perverse political priorities.

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Gender struggles of educated men in the Papuan highlands

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

From saving to survivance: Rethinking Indigenous Papuan women's vulnerabilities in Jayapura, Indonesia

From saving to survivance: Rethinking Indigenous Papuan women's vulnerabilities in Jayapura, Indonesia

Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement

Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific

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