PAPUA Flashcards
Smart & Smart paper -
Tangled up in Food
S&S - Why did Europe search South Pacific?
- to fill trade deficit with China
S&S - before lamb and mutton flaps, what was sold in Papua?
Biscuit
S&S - Why did Papuan highlanders try to obtain technology?
To change outsiders’ perspectives of them
S&S - What is “the dog movement” in Papua?
Locals observed feeling “like dogs” in the eyes of foreigners
S&S - Why did it become normal to leave the small town for the village?
Parents embarrassed and wanted kids to have better schooling.
S&S - the “brain drain” from small towns only -
makes slums in the inner city
S&S - most culminating result of contact with whiteness?
in the end, dependency on lower quality food products
S&S - neo lib and western pressures changed traditions, even -
black magic
S&S - Canning factories located -
outside of villages, so that lower wages paid
S&S - end result of contact with whiteness
more diabetes
Errington, Gewertz, Fujikura -
“Noodle Narratives”
“Noodle Narratives” authors -
Errington, Gewertz, Fujikura
Errington, et al. - PPP
Popularly Positioned Products
Errington, et al. - BOP
bottom of pyramid
Errington, et al. - notes problem with introducing two soaps in India -
- too divisive. Protested. Why should even SCENT become classist and status symbol?
Errington, et al. - Creating consumers and markets is a done deal.
No. Continuous work. Open reciprocity. If Nestle does nothing to give back / intro new products / they get overtaken.
McMichael - FR?
Food Regimes
McMichael - THREE FOOD REGIMES (FR) - first food regime
1 > telegraph / new tech in grain & meat prod / mechanization / scouring South Pacific for deficit with China
McMichael - 3 food regimes (FR) 2nd =
Era of Decol / aid and “development” / machines / pesticides / seeds / subsidized by aid
McMichael - 3 food regimes (FR) 3rd =
“free trade” / cut backs allowing privatization / dispossessed farmers become indentures workers / creating BOP / “if poor countries take shit food from us, you can’t say it’s immoral”
McMichael - if Tonga too vocal about “turkey tails” or “flaps” =
OUT OF WTO
10 Min Video - on what island (most damaged island ever) -
Nauru
10 Min Video - Nauru island - devistated, dependent on imports, ____ is cheaper than ___
soda cheaper than water
Video 2 - “missionaries of food” - “walkabout -“
marketing”
Video 2 - “missionaries of food” - what do locals do to try and “show up” these “salespeople of Western products”?
Make terrific wigs and dance.
“Missionaries of food” - “I will teach my kids to -“
“discard Western traditions as we discard our fathers’ bad habits”
Gewertz & Errington - name of paper?
PNG’s flaps
Gewertz & Errington - Why PNG spend money on flaps?
Because jobs keep them busy.
Gewertz & Errington - Nutrition is a priority in PNG
No. Malaria, HIV, etc., these are priorities.
Errington & Gewertz - 2nd paper title?
Instant Noodles for the BOP in PNG
Errington & Gewertz - Prahalad and London’s opinion about BOP?
BOP = a huge opportunity / 4 billion people living on less than $2 / day
Errington & Gewertz - Instant noodles price compared to rice?
More expensive, per gram and per calorie.
Errington & Gewertz - What is “BOP-izing”?
Through socialization, women in Church groups learn about “3 meals a day” and Nestle agenda
Smart & Smart (Tangled) - whose idea was “moral economy”?
E.P. Thompson
Smart & Smart - how does “moral economy” apply to products?
Cannot question one without questioning all.
Smart & Smart ~ What is the moral economy of fatty meats?
If an impoverished people have need for something, it is immoral to withhold it.
