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""Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested.""-Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of VacationingWhy, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also through munda

For‐profit corporations increasingly promote themselves as potential partners with government (state actors) and community (NGOs and civil society groups) in addressing social problems. These partnerships enact what the former CEO of The Coca‐Cola Company, Neville Isdell, calls "connected capitalism"—collaborations in which businesses must do good in order to maximize shareholder value. How should we understand the self‐qualification of corporations as responsible partners and thus the corporate rejection of Milton Friedman's famous claim that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits? I address the question by considering how the partnerships currently advocated by The Coca‐Cola Company enhance the value of corporate‐owned brands and deflect criticism of business operations. I argue that these partnerships perform what Garsten and Jacobsson call "post‐political governance" in which cooperation with business displaces regulation of business by government. I argue furthermore that these partnerships represent what Nader calls "harmony ideology," in which the concern for polite consensus displaces any interest in addressing social inequality.

The reasons for the nation-state's weakness are many, but the course of TV talk over the last 10 years in Papua New Guinea reveals one reason in particular: the sacrifice of long-term-state-building to the immediate demands of electoral strategy.