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See moreWhy 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?
Undermining Resistance develops a new critical political economy approach to studying extractive accumulation. It draws on three detailed Indonesian cases to explain how participatory mechanisms continuously reshape and are reshaped by community-corporate conflict. Findings highlight the 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.
Series: Progress in Political Economy
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781526173331
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 23 July 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Illustration: 4 Maps
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 232
About the Author
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
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