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Sixth Conference of the
European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)
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Pacific Challenges: Questioning concepts, rethinking conflicts
Marseille (France), 6-8 July 2005
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01: Colonial grievances info | papers
02: Reshaping Indigenous worlds info | papers
03: Dynamics of Pacific Religiosity info | papers
04: Mapping Oceania info | papers
05: Rethinking political conflicts, beyond ethnicity info | papers
06: Cultural festivals info | papers
07: Enchantments of technology info | papers
08: Ownership in effect info | papers
09: Spiritual material info | papers
10: Endangered Languages info | papers
11: Transculturation info | papers
12: New Caledonia in Oceania info | papers
13: Keynotes info | papers
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| id: | 8 | | Title: | Ownership in effect: Property, Rights, Policy and Practice in Oceania | | Number of papers: | 10 | | Organizers: | Crook, Tony
(University of St Andrew, England)
Simet, Jacob (discussant)
(PNG National Cultural Commission) | | Abstract: | Oceanic practices of making social claims in others, in personal effects and in resources of all kinds have long caught the attention of social scientists interested in political mechanisms in the region. More recently, international legal designs have aspired to achieve both ‘local protection’ and ‘global access’ by standardizing the implementation of compliant property-rights legislation as a condition of membership in bodies such as the World Trade Organization. Consequently, new kinds of ownership-claimsæcaught up in these particular habits of property-thinkingæhave brought forward new bases on which to rest such claims, and perceived new kinds of resources over which to make a claim. In response, Pacific states across the regionæand acting as a regionæhave been reflecting upon, and negotiating the basis for, the combination of these international obligations with both national and customary legal resources. Moreover, putting these measures into practice requires policies that bridge these gapsæmaking them workable for the kinds of possibilities, uses and problems perceived in them. Whereas initial anthropological interest was drawn to comment on the fit between these legal combinations and local conceptions, this workshop aims to move the focus on to the context of implementation: how are people in Oceania bridging these gaps?, and what roles are perceived for the resources of social science?
The workshop will explore the rubric of “ownership in effect” in two ways: 1) how are these new legal resources and policies being put into effect?, and what kinds of uses or problems are being perceived in them? 2) what kinds of social and personal effects or new resources are being claimed?, and what are the emergent bases for ownership-claims? |
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