This article explores the frustrations of men – both ‘local’ and ‘international’ – who work in the development sector in Papua New Guinea. It explores the views of men not because they are the only ones to express such dissatisfaction, but because their perspectives have not been documented, other than in informal conversations as occur over drinks or messaging platforms. These multiple narratives show how a combination of pay variations, different cultural vantage points, and bureaucratic dynamics leaves both constituencies feeling inconsequential, diminished, and disempowered. The research extends previous work with women. The article reflects a contribution to three bodies of literature which examine, respectively, the professional middle class in Melanesia; linkages between colonialism and racialised hierarchies reproduced in and through development; and the hierarchies of aid and professionalised international development, structures that have been likened to an ‘aid chain’.

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澳大利亚对巴布亚新几内亚的援助：男人对发展部门薪酬差距，权力不平衡和书面产品的看法

本文探讨了在巴布亚新几内亚的发展部门工作的男性（无论是“本地”还是“国际”）的挫败感。它探讨了男人的观点，不是因为他们是唯一表达这种不满的人，而是因为除了在饮料或信息平台上进行的非正式对话之外，他们的观点没有得到记录。这些多重叙述说明了薪资差异，不同的文化优势和官僚主义的结合如何使这两个选区显得无关紧要，被削弱和被剥夺了权力。这项研究扩大了以前与妇女合作的工作。本文反映了对三个文献体系的贡献，它们分别考察了美拉尼西亚的专业中产阶级；在发展中和通过发展复制了殖民主义和种族等级之间的联系；以及援助和专业化国际发展的层次结构，这些结构已被比喻为“援助链”。