Publications-Periodical Articles

Article View/Open

Publication Export

Google ScholarTM

NCCU Library

Citation Infomation

Related Publications in TAIR

題名 Kamapim gutpela man: Papua New Guinean and Chinese refinery workers' changing understandings of becoming a good man
作者 郭益昌
Kuo, I-Chang
貢獻者 國發所
關鍵詞 becoming; masculinities; mining industry; Chinese multinational companies; Papua NewGuinea
日期 2023-03
上傳時間 2024-12-12
摘要 This article adds to research on emerging masculinities in the Pacific by analysing how Papua New Guinean and Chinese male employees' intercultural work experiences impact their perceptions of becoming a good man. The idea of a good man acts as a benchmark for assessing the adaptability of Papua New Guinean employees to new work environments and determining if Chinese colleagues are their desired partners. I illustrate this point by first considering ‘becoming’ as an alternate framework to the binary framework reflected in earlier research. I next describe how Papua New Guinean workers impress their Chinese supervisors through negotiations and concessions about industrial and subsistence farming time, as well as how working with Papua New Guinean workers alters Chinese employees' perceptions of work. Finally, I demonstrate how employment practices foster Papua New Guinean workers' evolving perspectives on becoming a gutpela man (‘good man’) and Chinese employees' evolving perspectives on becoming a good person, a vital route to becoming a chenggong man (‘successful man’). This article proposes characterizing emerging masculinities as hybrid identities that are context-dependent, interculturally exchanged and temporal by presenting two parties' new thoughts on becoming a good man. This article demonstrates modulatory power dynamics in the Chinese refinery based on a two-way narrative as opposed to portraying Chinese management as the dominating force.
關聯 Oceania, Vol.93, No.1, pp.2-22
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5359
dc.contributor 國發所
dc.creator (作者) 郭益昌
dc.creator (作者) Kuo, I-Chang
dc.date (日期) 2023-03
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-12-
dc.date.available 2024-12-12-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 2024-12-12-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) https://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/154635-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) This article adds to research on emerging masculinities in the Pacific by analysing how Papua New Guinean and Chinese male employees' intercultural work experiences impact their perceptions of becoming a good man. The idea of a good man acts as a benchmark for assessing the adaptability of Papua New Guinean employees to new work environments and determining if Chinese colleagues are their desired partners. I illustrate this point by first considering ‘becoming’ as an alternate framework to the binary framework reflected in earlier research. I next describe how Papua New Guinean workers impress their Chinese supervisors through negotiations and concessions about industrial and subsistence farming time, as well as how working with Papua New Guinean workers alters Chinese employees' perceptions of work. Finally, I demonstrate how employment practices foster Papua New Guinean workers' evolving perspectives on becoming a gutpela man (‘good man’) and Chinese employees' evolving perspectives on becoming a good person, a vital route to becoming a chenggong man (‘successful man’). This article proposes characterizing emerging masculinities as hybrid identities that are context-dependent, interculturally exchanged and temporal by presenting two parties' new thoughts on becoming a good man. This article demonstrates modulatory power dynamics in the Chinese refinery based on a two-way narrative as opposed to portraying Chinese management as the dominating force.
dc.format.extent 97 bytes-
dc.format.mimetype text/html-
dc.relation (關聯) Oceania, Vol.93, No.1, pp.2-22
dc.subject (關鍵詞) becoming; masculinities; mining industry; Chinese multinational companies; Papua NewGuinea
dc.title (題名) Kamapim gutpela man: Papua New Guinean and Chinese refinery workers' changing understandings of becoming a good man
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1002/ocea.5359
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5359