{"title":"The Compensation Page: News Narratives of Public Kinship in Papua New Guinea Print Journalism","authors":"Ryan Schram","doi":"10.1353/cp.2022.0003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"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 produce 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 compensation stories 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 civic 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 society and its media continue to work through the dilemmas of ethnographic citizenship in ever newer ways.","PeriodicalId":51783,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Pacific","volume":"34 1","pages":"63 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Contemporary Pacific","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2022.0003","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"AREA STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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 produce 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 compensation stories 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 civic 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 society and its media continue to work through the dilemmas of ethnographic citizenship in ever newer ways.
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With editorial offices at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, The Contemporary Pacific covers a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. It features refereed, readable articles that examine social, economic, political, ecological, and cultural topics, along with political reviews, book and media reviews, resource reviews, and a dialogue section with interviews and short essays. Each issue highlights the work of a Pacific Islander artist.
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