Revealing the Invisible Mine
Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project
Seiten
2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-856-6 (ISBN)
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-856-6 (ISBN)
The Frieda River area in Papua New Guinea is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. This book offers an account of local stakeholder strategies as they unfolded at Frieda over forty years and provides a strong and novel commentary on sustainability and social accountability of the mining industry operating in indigenous territories.
Exploring the social complexities of the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea, this book tells the story of local stakeholder strategies on the eve of industrial development, largely from the perspective of the Paiyamo – one of the project’s so-called ‘impact communities’. Engaging ideas of knowledge, belief and personhood, it explains how fifty years of encounters with exploration companies shaped the Paiyamo’s aspirations, made them revisit and re-examine their past, and develop new strategies to move towards a better, more prosperous future.
Exploring the social complexities of the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea, this book tells the story of local stakeholder strategies on the eve of industrial development, largely from the perspective of the Paiyamo – one of the project’s so-called ‘impact communities’. Engaging ideas of knowledge, belief and personhood, it explains how fifty years of encounters with exploration companies shaped the Paiyamo’s aspirations, made them revisit and re-examine their past, and develop new strategies to move towards a better, more prosperous future.
Emilia Skrzypek is a social anthropologist based at the University of St Andrews. Her research to date has largely focused on Papua New Guinea where she works on issues related to broadly conceived resource relations and interdependencies.
List of Illustration, Figures, Maps and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Text
Introduction
Chapter 1. Role Play
Chapter 2. Making up Paiyamo
Chapter 3. Make-Believe
Chapter 4. The Book of Paiyamo
Chapter 5. Precipitating the Mine
Conclusion
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78920-856-4 / 1789208564 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78920-856-6 / 9781789208566 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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