Jason S. Roberts
Political ecologist and anthropologist focusing on resource extraction, development, and environmental change, author of We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea (University of Arizona Press, 2024).
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Feb 2, 2026 • 1h 3min
Jason Roberts, "We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea" (U Arizona Press, 2024)
Jason S. Roberts, a political ecologist and anthropologist who studies resource extraction and development, discusses life on New Hanover, Papua New Guinea. He explores logging’s ecological toll and failed agroforestry schemes. He traces how hopes for development are formed, frustrated, and repeatedly renewed. He also describes subsistence resilience amid dispossession and unequal distribution of benefits.
