Individual Presentation or Panel Title
Resource Extraction on New Guinea Island
Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of resource extraction on New Guinea Island, which contains part of Indonesia as well as the country of Papua New Guinea. New Guinea Island, the second largest island in the world, has an extreme amount of biodiversity, which means that these two nations contain many natural resources that appeal to consumers in the Global North. The goal of this paper is to explore how gold mining corporations from the Global North have affected the lives of native Papuans ecologically, economically, and culturally. To do this, I explore how the pan-Indigenous movement of the world has worked to support indigenous Papuans.
My methodology for this research will be a case study, based on the work of sociologist Al Gedicks, which will both describe and analyze. I anticipate that my results will show that mining on New Guinea Island most directly affects marginalized indigenous communities, and that any local resistance to global extraction originates from said indigenous peoples.
Location
Ballator Gallery
Start Date
3-5-2014 2:30 PM
End Date
3-5-2014 3:20 PM
Resource Extraction on New Guinea Island
Ballator Gallery
This paper presents an analysis of resource extraction on New Guinea Island, which contains part of Indonesia as well as the country of Papua New Guinea. New Guinea Island, the second largest island in the world, has an extreme amount of biodiversity, which means that these two nations contain many natural resources that appeal to consumers in the Global North. The goal of this paper is to explore how gold mining corporations from the Global North have affected the lives of native Papuans ecologically, economically, and culturally. To do this, I explore how the pan-Indigenous movement of the world has worked to support indigenous Papuans.
My methodology for this research will be a case study, based on the work of sociologist Al Gedicks, which will both describe and analyze. I anticipate that my results will show that mining on New Guinea Island most directly affects marginalized indigenous communities, and that any local resistance to global extraction originates from said indigenous peoples.