Undermining Resistance
The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations
Seiten
2024
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7333-1 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7333-1 (ISBN)
Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? This book provides a new critical political economy of extractive accumulation to explain how participation crises and governance are related through local, national and global resistance. -- .
Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of local communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? Why are there so many different global standards in mining?
This book develops a new critical political economy approach to studying extractive accumulation, drawing on three detailed Indonesian cases to explain how participatory mechanisms continuously reshape and are reshaped by community-corporate conflict. Findings highlight feedback between local social relations, conflict, transnational activism, crises of legitimacy and global governance.
The author argues that corporate social responsibility, community development, ‘gender-mainstreaming’ and environmental monitoring are neither simple outcomes of corporate ethics nor mere greenwashing strategies. Rather, participation is a mechanism to undermine resistance and create social relations amenable to extractive accumulation. -- .
Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of local communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? Why are there so many different global standards in mining?
This book develops a new critical political economy approach to studying extractive accumulation, drawing on three detailed Indonesian cases to explain how participatory mechanisms continuously reshape and are reshaped by community-corporate conflict. Findings highlight feedback between local social relations, conflict, transnational activism, crises of legitimacy and global governance.
The author argues that corporate social responsibility, community development, ‘gender-mainstreaming’ and environmental monitoring are neither simple outcomes of corporate ethics nor mere greenwashing strategies. Rather, participation is a mechanism to undermine resistance and create social relations amenable to extractive accumulation. -- .
Lian Sinclair is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney and Honorary Research Fellow, Indo-Pacific Research Centre, at Murdoch University -- .
Preface & acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: mining and participation in global capitalism
1 Extractive accumulation and modes of participation
2 Global governance, crises and resistance in extractive accumulation
3 Contesting extractivism in Indonesia
4 Violence to participation in Rio Tinto’s Kelian Mine
5 Participation, gold, and governance in Gosowong
6 Iron resistance in Coastal Kulon Progo
Conclusion -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Progress in Political Economy |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Maps |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Technik ► Bergbau | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-7333-6 / 1526173336 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-7333-1 / 9781526173331 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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