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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.
- Series:
- State Crime
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- State crimes--Papua New Guinea--Bougainville Island.
- State crimes.
- Bougainville Crisis, Papua New Guinea, 1988-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pluto Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Investigates state involvement in war crimes surrounding activists on the island of Bougainville, who struggled to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine.
- Contents:
- State crime and the empire of capital
- The specificities of Papua New Guinea's development
- From landowner crisis to industrial sabotage
- Eight days that shook BCL, the first mine shutdown and its aftermath
- A tale of two solutions - Counterinsurgency warfare and the Bougainville package
- The making of Civil War on Bougainville
- State crime and really existing capitalism: The lessons of Bougainville
- Afterword: Impunity, civil society and the struggle ahead in Melanesia.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-78371-229-5
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