The compensation page: News narratives of public kinship in Papua New Guinea print journalism
Field | Value | Language |
dc.contributor.author | Schram, Ryan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-25 | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-25 | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-09-25 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23483 | |
dc.description.abstract | In Papua New Guinea (PNG), news media frequently report on events in which groups exchange gifts as compensation for alleged harms. In news narratives of this type, compensation is a metaphor for the contact between liberal and relational social orders. In this way, news media in PNG produces knowledge of what it means to be a citizen in a society defined by vast and profound diversity. Different versions of the basic formula for a compensation story each offer different models for how liberal and relational orders should interact, one stressing the logic of reciprocal debt and interdependence, and the other emphasizing the gift as a dematerialized symbol of commitment to civil order. Yet each variant implicates the other, and hence the status of the indigenous subject as a citizen of a postcolonial nation remains fundamentally ambiguous. Stories of a new type of compensation in national newspapers reveal that PNG and society and its media continue to work through the dilemmas of ethnographic citizenship in ever newer ways. | en_AU |
dc.language.iso | en | en_AU |
dc.publisher | University of Hawaii Press | en_AU |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 | en_AU |
dc.subject | journalism | en_AU |
dc.subject | news | en_AU |
dc.subject | creoles | en_AU |
dc.subject | pidgins | en_AU |
dc.subject | citizenship | en_AU |
dc.subject | postcolonialism | en_AU |
dc.title | The compensation page: News narratives of public kinship in Papua New Guinea print journalism | en_AU |
dc.type | Article | en_AU |
dc.subject.asrc | 1601 Anthropology | en_AU |
dc.subject.asrc | 2001 Communication and Media Studies | en_AU |
dc.rights.other | Publication forthcoming by the University of Hawaii Press | en_AU |
usyd.faculty | SeS faculties schools::Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences::School of Social and Political Sciences | en_AU |
usyd.department | Department of Anthropology | en_AU |
workflow.metadata.only | No | en_AU |
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