Markets, social embeddedness and precapitalist societies: the case of village tradestores in Papua New Guinea

Curry, George

doi:10.1016/s0016-7185(99)00020-2

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“…Land tenure arrangements, investment decisions and incentives to produce agricultural commodities are shaped by a host of considerations in addition to market imperatives like profit (e.g. Carrier and Carrier, 1989;Banks, 1999;Curry, 1999Curry, , 2003Goddard, 2000;Imbun, 2000;Horan, 2002;Van der Grijp, 2004;Sahlins, 2005;McGregor, 2007;Minnegal and Dwyer, 2007;Cahn, 2008;Koczberski et al, 2009;Maclean, 2010;Thornton et al, 2010;Bainton, 2011;Curry and Koczberski, 2013;Curry et al, 2012a;Boyd, 2013;McCormack and Barclay, 2013;Mosko, 2013).…”

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

Curry

Koczberski

Lummani

et al. 2015

Global Environmental Change

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A B S T R A C TThe influence of socio-cultural factors on the adaptive capacity, resilience and trade-offs in decisionmaking of households and communities is receiving growing scholarly attention. In many partly transformed societies, where the market economy is not well developed, livelihood practices are heavily structured by kinship and indigenous social and economic values. Farm investment decisions and incentives to produce agricultural commodities are shaped by a host of considerations in addition to market imperatives like profit. In one such partly transformed society in East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, we examine the adaptation decisions of smallholders in response to the drastic drop of yield in their cocoa plots caused by the sudden outbreak of Cocoa Pod Borer. To explain why the impact of the pest has been so great we examine the interconnections between household responses, the local sociocultural and economic context of smallholder commodity crop production and the wider institutional environment in which household choices and decisions are made. We argue that the significant lifestyle changes and labour intensive farming methods required for the effective control of Cocoa Pod Borer are incompatible with existing smallholder farming systems, values and livelihoods. To adopt a high input cropping system requires more than a technical fix and some training; it also requires abandoning a 'way of life' that provides status, identity and a moral order, and which is therefore highly resistant to change. The paper highlights the enduring influence and significance of local, culturally-specific beliefs and socioeconomic values and their influence on how individuals and communities make adaptation decisions.

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

Curry

Koczberski

Lummani

et al. 2015

Global Environmental Change

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“…Curry (1999) and fellow geographer Glenn Banks (1999) reported similar findings in their studies of trade stores in parts of East Sepik Province and the Highlands respectively. Preliminary investigations into smallholders' engagements with a commercial oil palm operation on Guadalcanal in Solomon Islanders indicate that similar processes are also at play there (Fraenkel et al 2010:70-71).…”

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Politics, Development and Security in Oceania

Hegarty¹,

Tryon²

2013

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“…For detailed analyses, from both sides of the political spectrum, of the problems besetting capitalist enterprise in the Western Pacific, see (from the Right) T. Levantis (2000) and H. Hughes (2003Hughes ( , 2004, and (from the Left) R.Gerritson and M. Macintyre (1991) and G. Curry (1999).…”

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Green Fantasies: Photographic representations of biodiversity and ecotourism in the Western Pacific

Foale

Macintyre

2005

Journal of Political Ecology

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1Martha Macintyre, University of Melbourne 2 "The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecological safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been -what people needed protection from. Now nature -tamed, endangered, mortal -needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures." Susan Sontag (1977: 15)

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Markets, social embeddedness and precapitalist societies: the case of village tradestores in Papua New Guinea

Cited by 57 publications

References 38 publications

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

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

Politics, Development and Security in Oceania

Green Fantasies: Photographic representations of biodiversity and ecotourism in the Western Pacific

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