Interpreting White Goods: Kunié women's perceptions of progress in New Caledonia

Author: Johnson Helen  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 1469-9540

Source: Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol.23, Iss.1, 2002-04, pp. : 19-32

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Abstract

Acknowledging and describing the ways that women shape relations of power and property can add to understandings of how local communities create and experience globalisation. In this paper I examine how relations of power are actively and discursively constructed within Kunié households in New Caledonia, how they are inscribed by gender, and link them to local narrativisations of progress.