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Mining capitalism : the relationship between corporations and their critics / Stuart Kirsch.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirsch, Stuart, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ok Tedi Mining.
- Mineral industries--Environmental aspects--Papua New Guinea.
- Mineral industries.
- Mineral industries--Political aspects--Papua New Guinea.
- Copper mines and mining--Papua New Guinea--Ok Tedi Region.
- Copper mines and mining.
- Gold mines and mining--Papua New Guinea--Ok Tedi Region.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts. Consequently, political movements and nongovernmental organizations increasingly contest the risks that corporations pose to people and nature. Mining Capitalism examines the strategies through which corporations manage their relationships with these critics and adversaries. By focusing on the conflict over the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea, Stuart Kirsch tells the story of a slow-moving environmental disaster and the international network of indigenous peoples, advocacy groups, and lawyers that sought to protect local rivers and rain forests. Along the way, he analyzes how corporations promote their interests by manipulating science and invoking the discourses of sustainability and social responsibility. Based on two decades of anthropological research, this book is comparative in scope, showing readers how similar dynamics operate in other industries around the world.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Colliding Ecologies
- Chapter 2. The Politics of Space
- Chapter 3. Down by Law
- Chapter 4. Corporate Science
- Chapter 5. Industry Strikes Back
- Chapter 6. New Politics of Time
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Appendix. Timeline of the Ok Tedi Mine and Related Events
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520281714
- 0520281713
- 9780520957596
- 0520957598
- OCLC:
- 880579579
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