Development and Decolonisation: the 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development and the Independence of Papua New Guinea.
The 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is often presented as a pivotal moment in the post-Second World War relations between the Global North and Global South. At this conference, Australian policymakers devised a Middle Zone policy that sought to present Australia as neither 'deve...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 158 - 181 |
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Feb2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=175302368&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 175302368 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 03086534 RIB jtl: Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History issn: 03086534 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Feb2024 vid: 52 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 175302368 10.1080/03086534.2023.2197425 ppf: 158 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.6MB tig: atl: Development and Decolonisation: the 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development and the Independence of Papua New Guinea. aug: au: Ferns, Nicholas affil: Monash University, Clayton, Australia su: Economic development Decolonization United Nations Developing countries Colonial administration Point processes Papua New Guinea Australia sug: subj: Papua New Guinea Australia Economic development Decolonization United Nations Developing countries Colonial administration Point processes keyword: decolonisation Development unctad ab: The 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is often presented as a pivotal moment in the post-Second World War relations between the Global North and Global South. At this conference, Australian policymakers devised a Middle Zone policy that sought to present Australia as neither 'developed' nor 'developing'. This had significant consequences for the colonial administration of Papua New Guinea (PNG), which Australia administered as a UN Trust Territory. In the two decades following the Second World War, Australia had administered PNG in a way that promoted gradual development, arguing that the road to independence would be a slow one. By 1964, however, international pressure (exemplified by the call for UNCTAD) had made this policy less viable. This article examines the impact of UNCTAD on the decolonisation of PNG, as it sparked an acceleration of calls for PNG independence in the second half of the 1960s. The Conference also prompted indigenous leaders within PNG to engage with the increasingly diverse field of development in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Local leaders, such as Michael Somare, became increasingly prominent as decolonisation loomed large. Their developmental approaches, informed by other movements within the Global South, steadily became a part of the plan for an independent PNG. UNCTAD can be seen as a starting point for this process. By examining the connections between the 1964 UNCTAD and the decolonisation of PNG, this paper adds a new dimension to the scholarship of the Conference as well as the process of decolonisation in the Pacific. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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