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How To Determine The Boundaries Of The Mind: A Markov Blanket Proposal, Michael D. Kirchhoff, Julian Kiverstein
How To Determine The Boundaries Of The Mind: A Markov Blanket Proposal, Michael D. Kirchhoff, Julian Kiverstein
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We develop a truism of commonsense psychology that perception and action constitute the boundaries of the mind. We do so however not on the basis of commonsense psychology, but by using the notion of a Markov blanket originally employed to describe the topological properties of causal networks. We employ the Markov blanket formalism to propose precise criteria for demarcating the boundaries of the mind that unlike other rival candidates for "marks of the cognitive" avoids begging the question in the extended mind debate. Our criteria imply that the boundary of the mind is nested and multiscale sometimes extending beyond the …
Economic Cognitive Institutions, Enrico Petracca, Shaun Gallagher
Economic Cognitive Institutions, Enrico Petracca, Shaun Gallagher
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Copyright © Millennium Economics Ltd 2020. This paper introduces the notion of 'cognitive' institution and discusses its relevance to institutional economics. Cognitive institutions are conceptually founded on the philosophy of mind notion of extended mind, broadened to also include the distinctly social, institutional, and normative dimensions. Cognitive institutions are defined as institutions that not just allow agents to perform certain cognitive processes in the social domain but, more importantly, without which some of the agents' cognitive processes would not exist or even be possible. The externalist point of view of the extended mind has already had some influence in institutional …
Tony Pecinovsky, Let Them Tremble, Rowan Cahill
Tony Pecinovsky, Let Them Tremble, Rowan Cahill
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September 2019 marked the centennial anniversary of the birth of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), founded in 1919. The occasion was marked by celebratory events. These will continue through to September 2020. Let Them Tremble: Biographical Interventions Marking 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA by activist and journalist Tony Pecinovsky, was launched in the context of this anniversary.
Miss Fisher And Her Fans: How A Heroine On Australia's Small Screen Became A Global Phenomenon, Sue Turnbull
Miss Fisher And Her Fans: How A Heroine On Australia's Small Screen Became A Global Phenomenon, Sue Turnbull
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A heavily disguised Phryne (Essie Davis) is racing through the streets of Palestine, pursued by armed men. Excitement mounts. Having athletically eluded all attempts to capture her, Phryne sheds her indigo robes to emerge in a sparkling gold dress framed against the skyline like the superhero she has indubitably become.
Reconnecting After Coronavirus - 4 Key Ways Cities Can Counter Anxiety And Loneliness, Roger Patulny, Jordan J. Mckenzie, Marlee Bower, Rebecca E. Olson
Reconnecting After Coronavirus - 4 Key Ways Cities Can Counter Anxiety And Loneliness, Roger Patulny, Jordan J. Mckenzie, Marlee Bower, Rebecca E. Olson
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COVID-19 has forced us into social distancing, isolation and quarantine. These conditions are likely fostering widespread anxiety and loneliness in our cities. However, they've also made the need for socially connected, vibrant public spaces obvious to all. We offer four strategies for rebuilding social connectivity and emotional well-being in our cities, once restrictions are lifted.
Great Time To Try: 5½ Ways To Make Movie Masterpieces At Home, Aaron L. Burton
Great Time To Try: 5½ Ways To Make Movie Masterpieces At Home, Aaron L. Burton
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Isolation is a common theme in cinema: stranded on an island (Cast Away), in space (Gravity or The Martian), on a boat (Life of Pi), stuck in the desert (127 hours), or simply confined to an apartment (Rear Window). But what about when the filmmakers themselves are stranded?
Science Collaboration For Capacity Building: Advancing Technology Transfer Through A Treaty For Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, Harriet R. Harden- Davies, Paul Snelgrove
Science Collaboration For Capacity Building: Advancing Technology Transfer Through A Treaty For Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, Harriet R. Harden- Davies, Paul Snelgrove
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Copyright 2020 Harden-Davies and Snelgrove. Marine technology transfer and capacity building are key elements in the development of a historic new agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ agreement) under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This vast, deep ocean area remains largely unexplored and poorly understood. Scientific knowledge gaps impede informed decision-making, and most countries lack the capacity to participate in ocean science activities in ABNJ or to benefit from discoveries of new ocean life, habitats, and processes. Consequently, science must play a central role …
Anchoring Know-How: Action, Affordance, And Anticipation, Shaun Gallagher, Benjamin Aguda
Anchoring Know-How: Action, Affordance, And Anticipation, Shaun Gallagher, Benjamin Aguda
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© 2020, Imprint Academic. All rights reserved. Action is always situated, always tied to specific contexts, and this is the case with respect to both the non-conscious — and largely subpersonal — processes or mechanisms that make action possible, and the person-level — and sometimes conscious — aspects of action that make action more than mere behaviour. According to one theory about the kind of know-how that we require to do what we do, the ‘automatic mechanisms’ that support action are ‘perfectly general’ (Stanley, 2011, p. 84), in contrast to the detailed propositional knowledge that informs action. We will argue, …
Contribution Of Women's Fisheries Substantial, But Overlooked, In Timor-Leste, Alexander Tilley, Ariadna Burgos, Agustinha Duarte, Joctan Dos Reis Lopes, Hampus B. Eriksson, David J. Mills
Contribution Of Women's Fisheries Substantial, But Overlooked, In Timor-Leste, Alexander Tilley, Ariadna Burgos, Agustinha Duarte, Joctan Dos Reis Lopes, Hampus B. Eriksson, David J. Mills
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2020, The Author(s). A greater understanding of gendered roles in fisheries is necessary to value the often-hidden roles that women play in fisheries and households. We examine women's contributions to household food and income using focus group discussions, market surveys, and landings data in six communities in Timor-Leste. Women were actively fishing more days per month than men. Gleaning was the most frequent activity and 100% of trips returned with catch for food and/or income. Mollusc and crab catches were common and exploitation appeared targeted on a dynamic reappraisal of changing food values and changing estimates of group needs. With …
Anticipatory Action: Active Inference In Embodied Cognitive Activity, Ian Robertson, Michael D. Kirchhoff
Anticipatory Action: Active Inference In Embodied Cognitive Activity, Ian Robertson, Michael D. Kirchhoff
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This paper addresses the cognitive basis of anticipatory action. It does so by taking up what we call the acuity problem: the problem of explaining how skilled action seems, on the one hand, to be executed and unfold automatically and reflexively and, on the other hand, to involve anticipation of context-sensitive and constantly changing conditions in performance. The acuity problem invites two contemporary forms of reply, which we label non-inferential enactivism and Helmholtzian inference, respectively. We advance a third avenue for replying to the acuity problem, which takes active inference under the free energy principle as its theoretical starting point. …
Should I Use My 'Weak' Social Capital Or 'Strong' Guanxi? Reviewing And Critiquing Two Theories In The Context Of Western-Chinese Migration, Zhuqin Feng, Roger Patulny
Should I Use My 'Weak' Social Capital Or 'Strong' Guanxi? Reviewing And Critiquing Two Theories In The Context Of Western-Chinese Migration, Zhuqin Feng, Roger Patulny
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The Author(s) 2020. Social network dynamics are complex in the context of Chinese overseas migration because of the unique dynamics of guanxi, which are distinctly different from 'Western' social capital. The few migration studies comparing guanxi and social capital suggest that the former largely consists 'strong ties', while the latter is comprised of 'weak ties'. However, most apply only a cursory comparison of one network facet. We review core literature in the two fields to contrast what each says about network norms, structures and practices. We find that: (i) guanxi is characterised by dynamics of 'face' and renqing; (ii) guanxi …
"They Should Have Never Given Us Uniforms If They Didn't Want Us To Be An Army": The Handmaid's Tale As Transmedia Feminism, Amy Boyle
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Even prior to its premier in April 2017, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale inspired a series of cosplay protests against antiabortion legislation at the Texas State Capitol. The red robes and white bonnets have since been popularized by the critically acclaimed series, and handmaid-style cosplay protests have continued transnationally, with the handmaid heralded as what the BBC calls "an international protest symbol" against heteropatriarchal oppression. Due to a surge of visible feminisms in popular media, it has become good business to create such female-centric, avowedly feminist texts. As the television industry has evolved from a broadcast network to a subscription market, …
Bob Santamaria, 'The Most Significant' Figure In Australian Politics Never To Have Been In Parliament, Gregory C. Melleuish
Bob Santamaria, 'The Most Significant' Figure In Australian Politics Never To Have Been In Parliament, Gregory C. Melleuish
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Bartholomew Augustine ("Bob") Santamaria is the most significant figure in Australian politics never to have held political office. Santamaria was a friend of, or associated with, four Australian prime ministers: Robert Menzies, Malcolm Fraser, John Howard and Tony Abbott. But his career was spent outside parliament.
Developing A Short-Term Phenomenological Training Program: A Report Of Methodological Lessons, Katsunori Miyahara, Takuya Niikawa, Hiro Hamada, Satoshi Nishida
Developing A Short-Term Phenomenological Training Program: A Report Of Methodological Lessons, Katsunori Miyahara, Takuya Niikawa, Hiro Hamada, Satoshi Nishida
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2020 Elsevier Ltd We discuss our attempts to develop a short-term phenomenological training program for training naïve participants in phenomenological skills. After reviewing existing methodologies for collecting phenomenological data and clarifying the benefit of the short-term training approach, we present two training programs and two experiments that tested their effectiveness. Experiment 1 tested the two-stage training program, which consists of (i) the illusion training which instructs participants to describe the experience of a visual illusion and (ii) the guidance training which offers individualized feedbacks for improving their description. This program proved effective, but also excessively skill-demanding. Experiment 2 tested the …
Capitalized Money, Austerity And The Math Of Capitalism, Timothy Dimuzio, Richard Robbins
Capitalized Money, Austerity And The Math Of Capitalism, Timothy Dimuzio, Richard Robbins
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The Author(s) 2020. This article seeks to contribute to the existing critical debates on money and debt by advancing three main arguments. First, largely due to such debates' tendency for description, the article argues that in in the heterodox literature on money and debt there is no convincing critical theory of money creation. For this reason the authors introduce the theory of capital as power and how it can help us theorize the consequences of present money creation. Second, the authors demonstrate how the capitalization of money creation by a minority of investors not only leads to the political chase …
Does Social Media Make Us More Or Less Lonely? Depends On How You Use It, Roger Patulny
Does Social Media Make Us More Or Less Lonely? Depends On How You Use It, Roger Patulny
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Humans are more connected to each other than ever, thanks to smartphones, the web and social media. At the same time, loneliness is a huge and growing social problem. Why is this so? Research shows social media use alone can't cure loneliness - but it can be a tool to build and strengthen our genuine connections with others, which are important for a happy life. To understand why this is the case, we need to understand more about loneliness, its harmful impact, and what this has to do with social media.
Claims, Confusion, And Status: Which City Is New Zealand's Oldest?, Andre Brett
Claims, Confusion, And Status: Which City Is New Zealand's Oldest?, Andre Brett
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2019 New Zealand Geographical Society There is little clarity as to which city is New Zealand's "oldest" or "first." Scholars, journalists, and websites make competing claims. This article examines various categories by which cities can claim to be oldest, and reveals that Auckland, Christchurch, and Wellington have valid claims but Dunedin and Nelson do not. Most claims are bound up in the inconsistent development of New Zealand's municipal authorities and representative institutions. I conclude that although the status of "oldest city" has no legal significance, this detail provides an accessible entry point to important historical narratives and to understanding urban …
At A Performance Of The White Album, I Found The Community I Needed In A Time Of Crisis, Karen Cummings
At A Performance Of The White Album, I Found The Community I Needed In A Time Of Crisis, Karen Cummings
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Theatre can be many things. It can provide a catalyst to action, help us make sense of the world, make us feel part of a broader human experience. Sometimes, what happens on stage is the catalyst. Other times it happens because of the gathering theatre creates.
Integrating Fisheries, Food And Nutrition - Insights From People And Policies In Timor-Leste, Anna K. Farmery, Lana Kajlich, Michelle A. Voyer, Jessica Bogard, Augustinha Duarte
Integrating Fisheries, Food And Nutrition - Insights From People And Policies In Timor-Leste, Anna K. Farmery, Lana Kajlich, Michelle A. Voyer, Jessica Bogard, Augustinha Duarte
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2020 Elsevier Ltd The important role of fish in food and nutrition security is becoming more widely acknowledged by the fishery sector and within food policy. Integration of fish and food policy, at national, regional or global levels, is required to ensure the contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to human health is supported through governance arrangements. We explore this aspect of food policy integration in Timor-Leste, where malnutrition is a critical health problem. Consumption of fish is low by international standards and only a small proportion of the population engages in fishing. We used a mixed method approach involving desktop …
Distal Engagement: Intentions In Perception, Nick Brancazio, Miguel Segundo Ortin
Distal Engagement: Intentions In Perception, Nick Brancazio, Miguel Segundo Ortin
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2020 Elsevier Inc. Non-representational approaches to cognition have struggled to provide accounts of long-term planning that forgo the use of representations. An explanation comes easier for cognitivist accounts, which hold that we concoct and use contentful mental representations as guides to coordinate a series of actions towards an end state. One non-representational approach, ecological-enactivism, has recently seen several proposals that account for "high-level" or "representation-hungry" capacities, including long-term planning and action coordination. In this paper, we demonstrate the explanatory gap in these accounts that stems from avoiding the incorporation of long-term intentions, as they play an important role both in …
Getting Creative With Less. Recipe Lessons From The Australian Women's Weekly During Wartime, Lauren Samuelsson
Getting Creative With Less. Recipe Lessons From The Australian Women's Weekly During Wartime, Lauren Samuelsson
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Over the past few weeks, Australians have become used to seeing empty shelves in their local supermarkets. Coronavirus-induced panic buying has quickly depleted stocks of products like pasta, rice and flour. Major supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths have introduced restrictions on the purchase of these staple ingredients. Coles has also introduced "rationing" of minced meats. While this is not a genuine food crisis, these limitations will lead Australians to ponder the culinary possibilities of their pantries. Looking at Australia's most widely read women's magazine, the Australian Women's Weekly, shows us how Australians have dealt with food shortages in the past: …
Data-Driven Approach For Highlighting Priority Areas For Protection In Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, Morgan Visalli, Benjamin Best, Reniel Cabral, William Cheung, Nichola Clark, Cristina Garilao, Kristin Kaschner, Kathleen Kesner-Reyes, Vicky Lam, Sara Maxwell, Juan Mayorga, Holly Moeller, Lance Morgan, Guillermo Crespo, Malin Pinsky, Timothy White, Douglas Mccauley
Data-Driven Approach For Highlighting Priority Areas For Protection In Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, Morgan Visalli, Benjamin Best, Reniel Cabral, William Cheung, Nichola Clark, Cristina Garilao, Kristin Kaschner, Kathleen Kesner-Reyes, Vicky Lam, Sara Maxwell, Juan Mayorga, Holly Moeller, Lance Morgan, Guillermo Crespo, Malin Pinsky, Timothy White, Douglas Mccauley
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2020 The Authors One of the aims of the United Nations (UN) negotiations on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) is to develop a legal process for the establishment of area-based management tools, including marine protected areas, in ABNJ. Here we use a conservation planning algorithm to integrate 55 global data layers on ABNJ species diversity, habitat heterogeneity, benthic features, productivity, and fishing as a means for highlighting priority regions in ABNJ to be considered for spatial protection. We also include information on forecasted species distributions under climate change. We found that …
Facebook And A Fair Trial: Caution, Challenge And Contradiction, Kate P. Tubridy
Facebook And A Fair Trial: Caution, Challenge And Contradiction, Kate P. Tubridy
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This article explores the often fraught intersections between social media, fair trial principles and community engagement with high-profile crimes. Specifically, a detailed analysis is undertaken of the Facebook response to the arrest of Adrian Ernest Bayley for the murder of Ms Gillian (Jill) Meagher in Victoria, Australia in 2012. As one of the first Australian crimes to receive a significant social media response, this research provides empirical insights into the dynamic and evolving relationship between social media, the community and criminal trials. By drawing on a critical discourse analysis of over 3,000 comments on the R.I.P Jill Meagher Facebook page, …
An Ethical Engagement: Creative Practice Research, The Academy And Professional Codes Of Conduct, Kate Macneill, Barbara Bolt, Estelle Barrett, Megan Mcpherson, Marie Sierra, Sarah B. Miller, Pia Ednie-Brown, Carole Wilson
An Ethical Engagement: Creative Practice Research, The Academy And Professional Codes Of Conduct, Kate Macneill, Barbara Bolt, Estelle Barrett, Megan Mcpherson, Marie Sierra, Sarah B. Miller, Pia Ednie-Brown, Carole Wilson
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The Author(s) 2020. This paper reports on the experiences of creative practice graduate researchers and academic staff as they seek to comply with the requirements of the Australian National Statement on the Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Humans. The research was conducted over a two-year period (2015 to 2017) as part of a wider project 'iDARE - Developing New Approaches to Ethics and Research Integrity Training through Challenges Presented by Creative Practice Research'. The research identified the appreciation of ethics that the participants acquired through their experience of institutional research ethics procedures at their university. It also revealed a disjunction …
Institutions And Other Things: Critical Hermeneutics, Postphenomenology And Material Engagement Theory, Tailer Ransom, Shaun Gallagher
Institutions And Other Things: Critical Hermeneutics, Postphenomenology And Material Engagement Theory, Tailer Ransom, Shaun Gallagher
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© 2020, The Author(s). Don Ihde and Lambros Malafouris (Philosophy and Technology 32:195–214, 2019) have argued that “we are homo faber not just because we make things but also because we are made by them.” The emphasis falls on the idea that the things that we create, use, rely on—that is, those things with which we engage—have a recursive effect on human existence. We make things, but we also make arrangements, many of which are long-standing, material, social, normative, economic, institutional, and/or political, and many of which are supported by various technologies, including AI, more and more. Critical theorists, such …
New Shows Tell Our Isolation Stories On Screen - Making The Most Of What's At Hand, Aaron L. Burton
New Shows Tell Our Isolation Stories On Screen - Making The Most Of What's At Hand, Aaron L. Burton
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Coronavirus & Me is the kind of hybrid user-generated television production we can expect to see more of in coming months. With the majority of Australia's film and television industry shut down, and essential production shifting to bedrooms, YouTube style content is elbowing in to the free-to-air and subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) experience. Tinkering with whatever is at hand to produce media content reflects the emergence of "bricolage" culture into the mainstream.
Design Principles For Integrating Authentic Activities In An Online Community Of Foreign Language Learners, Mariolina Pais Marden, Janice A. Herrington
Design Principles For Integrating Authentic Activities In An Online Community Of Foreign Language Learners, Mariolina Pais Marden, Janice A. Herrington
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2020, Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc.. All rights reserved. Actively encouraging foreign language learners to establish a meaningful connection with the target language culture-by engaging in authentic activities with other learners and native speakers in real-world communicative contexts-is a critical goal of foreign language education. This paper describes a design-based research study that investigated how students of Italian at an Australian university engaged with and responded to a web-based learning environment which integrated authentic learning tasks to facilitate social interaction and meaningful collaborative language practice with native speakers of the target language. The findings suggest that the use …
Malnutrition In Rural Solomon Islands: An Analysis Of The Problem And Its Drivers, Joelle Albert, Jessica Bogard, Faye Siota, Joe Mccarter, Salome Diatalau, Josephine Maelaua, Thomas D. Brewer, Neil L. Andrew
Malnutrition In Rural Solomon Islands: An Analysis Of The Problem And Its Drivers, Joelle Albert, Jessica Bogard, Faye Siota, Joe Mccarter, Salome Diatalau, Josephine Maelaua, Thomas D. Brewer, Neil L. Andrew
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2020 The Authors. Maternal & Child Nutrition published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Solomon Islands, like many Pacific Island nations, suffer from the burden of malnutrition. External drivers including population growth, declining agriculture and fisheries productivity and global food trade have contributed to the transition to greater reliance on imported foods. Globally, diets are recognized as both a cause of and solution to the burden of malnutrition. Using a mixed-method approach this study assessed nutritional status and key determinants of malnutrition among women and young children in rural Solomon Island communities. Quantitative 24-hour recall surveys identified diets of women …
South-South Cooperation In Southeast Asia: From Bandung And Solidarity To Norms And Rivalry, Susan N. Engel
South-South Cooperation In Southeast Asia: From Bandung And Solidarity To Norms And Rivalry, Susan N. Engel
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This article demonstrates how South-South Cooperation (SSC), as it is now constituted in Southeast Asia, is little more than a liberal norm retaining only echoes of its origins in the 1955 Bandung Conference that first created SSC based on solidarity, common interests, and sovereignty. Southeast Asia is a useful case study of SSC's evolution, as its states have been major players over the decades - with Indonesia proposing the Bandung Conference, Malaysia playing a key role in the 1980s, and Indonesia again at the forefront of the region from the first years of the new century onwards. Thailand and Singapore …
A Soul Divided: The Un's Misconduct Over West Papua, Julian Mckinlay King
A Soul Divided: The Un's Misconduct Over West Papua, Julian Mckinlay King
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2019 by the author(s). The soul of the Papuan people is divided. Separated by an arbitrary line established during the early colonial period-dissecting language groups, tribal lands, gardens, and villages-the people to the west of this line are regarded as Indonesian and live under a military dictatorship described by legal scholars and human rights advocates as systemic terror and alleged genocide while those people to the east of this line enjoy freedom within the independent state of Papua New Guinea. This paper revisits the range of agreements between the United Nations, Indonesia, and the Netherlands from 1962, which include the …