Papua New Guinea: The Tides: Masculinity And Climate Change In Coastal Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea: The Tides: Masculinity And Climate Change In Coastal Papua New Guinea David Lipset, 2011   In the wake of severe coastal erosion in 2007, views about rising sea-levels and climate change took on urgency among the Murik, a coastal people in Papua New Guinea. A theoretical question is raised by their discourse: how to conceptualize the relationship among multiple understandings of this event that would not silence local voices? Bakhtin's concepts of chronotopes and dialogue,...

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