Large-scale mines and local-level politics : between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea / edited by Colin Filer and Pierre-Yves Le Meur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Filer, Colin, editor.

Le Meur, Pierre-Yves, editor.

Australian National University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mines and mineral resources--New Caledonia.

Mines and mineral resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Despite the difference in their populations and political status, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea have comparable levels of economic dependence on the extraction and export of mineral resources. For this reason, the costs and benefits of large-scale mining projects for indigenous communities has been a major political issue in both jurisdictions, and one that has come to be negotiated through multiple channels at different levels of political organisation. The resource boom that took place in the early years of the current century has only served to intensify the political contests and conflicts that surround the distribution of social, economic and environmental costs and benefits between community members and other stakeholders in the large-scale mining industry. However, the mutual isolation of Anglophone and Francophone scholars has formed a barrier to systematic comparison of the relationship between large-scale mines and local-level politics in Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia, despite their geographical proximity. This collection of essays represents an effort to overcome this barrier, but is also intended as a major contribution to the growth of academic and political debate about the social impact of the large-scale mining industry in Melanesia and beyond.

Contents:

Large-scale mines and local-level politics / Colin Filer and Pierre-Yves le Meur

From anticipation to practice: social and economic management of the nickel plant's establishment in New Caledonia's North Province / Jean-Michel Sourisseau, Sonia Grochain and David Poithily

Social and environmental transformations in the neighbourhood of nickel mining project: a case study from northern New Caledonia / Matthias Kowasch

The Boakaine Mine in New Caledonia: a local development issue? / Christine Demmer

Conflict and agreement: the politics of nickel in Thio, New Caledonia / Pierre-Yves Le Meur

Contesting the Goro Nickel Mining Project, New Caledonia: indigenous rights, sustainable development and the land issue / Claire Levacher

Dissecting corporate community development in the large-scale Melanesian mining sector / Glenn Banks, Dora Kuir-Ayius, David Kombako and Bill F. Sagir

Negotiating community support for closure or continuation of the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea / Colin Filer and Phillipa Jenkins

Disconnected development worlds: responsibility towards local communities in Papua New Guinea / John burton and Joyce Onguglo

Gender mainstreaming and local politics: women, women's associations and mining in Lihir / Susan R. Hemer

Migrants, labourers and landowners at the Lihir Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea / Nicholas A. Bainton

Bougainville: origins of the conflict, and debating the future of large-scale mining / Anthony J. Regan

Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea / Colin Filer and Pierre-Yves le Meur.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 9, 2018).

ISBN:

9781760461508

1760461504