This article explores how a displaced Papua New Guinean people decided to lease their customary land for oil palm plantation farming to restore their land use rights and resolve ongoing disputes with migrant settlers. By transforming the landscape into a territorialized space as a plantation, Kairak‐speaking Baining hoped to gain actual landownership status and control over their land, which in turn, they believed, could bring them the development they had long dreamed of. I argue that Kairak conceptions about the plantation as a tool to reveal their landownership and remove the settlers drew on Melanesian notions about covering and revelation, changing perceptions of value, and discourse around ‘settlerhood’ and ‘nativism’, and show how agribusiness capital expansion strategies leverage regional politics of identity and autochthony. By illustrating how the plantation expansion unfolded differently in this region, the material offers new insights on the Plantationocene, global land grabs, dispossession and migration, and reaffirms the consequences reported elsewhere in the world where enclosures of exclusion lead to forceful rearrangements of people's social and economic lives, leaving their hopes and plantation promises unrealized.

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用油棕覆盖土地：巴布亚新几内亚凯拉克语拜宁人的启示、价值和土地所有权


本文探讨了流离失所的巴布亚新几内亚人民如何决定租赁他们的传统土地进行油棕榈种植园种植，以恢复他们的土地使用权并解决与移民定居者持续存在的纠纷。通过将景观转变为种植园的领土化空间，凯拉克语的拜宁希望获得实际的土地所有权地位和对土地的控制权，他们相信这反过来可以给他们带来他们长期以来梦想的发展。我认为，凯拉克关于种植园作为揭示其土地所有权和驱逐定居者的工具的概念借鉴了美拉尼西亚关于覆盖和揭露、改变价值观念以及围绕“定居者身份”和“本土主义”的话语的观念，并展示了农业企业资本扩张如何战略利用了身份和本土的区域政治。通过说明种植园扩张在该地区如何以不同的方式展开，该材料提供了关于种植园世、全球土地掠夺、剥夺和移民的新见解，并重申了世界其他地方报告的后果，即封闭的排斥导致人们的社会和生活发生强有力的重新安排。经济生活，使他们的希望和种植园承诺未能实现。