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- Title: Logging, Violence and Pleasure: Neoliberalism, Civil Society and Corporate Governance in West New Britain (Report)
- Author : Oceania
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 259 KB
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INTRODUCTION Between 1990 and 2000, a large international logging company based in Malaysia carried out logging in the Kaliai hinterland of West New Britain on behalf of a new-established local landowner company.' During this period, there emerged a law and order problem that had not existed previously and that disappeared once logging ceased. Most of the violence and theft that emerged was directed at the property and employees of the two timber companies. Ordinary villagers did not feel threatened. They went about their normal everyday tasks and, if anything, many conspired in the perpetration and concealment of the new crimes. (2) As a rule, Kaliai villagers are outraged by local felonies, which they frequently interpret in terms of a moral panic about their region becoming part of a growing national problem of criminal gangs (raskol) (Mitchell, Reed, this collection). The new assaults and thefts were not interpreted in that light.