State crime on the margins of empire : Rio Tinto, the war on bougainville and resistance to mining / Kristian Lasslett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lasslett, Kristian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State crimes--Papua New Guinea--Bougainville Island.

State crimes.

Bougainville Crisis, Papua New Guinea, 1988-.

Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea--Bougainville Island.

Physical Description:

x, 246 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2014.

Summary:

This pioneering account of state-corporate crime examines a campaign of resistance waged by ant-mine activists on the island of Bougainville, who closed a Rio Tinto-owned copper mine that had devastated the surrounding ecosystem. The book investigates the state-corporate response, which led to the loss of some 10,000 lives. Drawing on internal records, this unique book challenges positivist streams of criminological scholarship. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 State Crime and the Empire of Capital 1

2 The Specificities of Papua New Guinea's Development 25

3 From Landowner Crisis to Industrial Sabotage 51

4 Eight Days that Shook BCL, the First Mine Shutdown and its Aftermath 73

5 A Tale of Two Solutions - Counterinsurgency Warfare and the Bougainville Package 104

6 The Making of Civil War on Bougainville 141

7 State Crime and Really Existing Capitalism: The Lessons of Bougainville 178.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index.

ISBN:

9780745335049

0745335047

OCLC:

887848182