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.
By:
Lian Sinclair
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781526173331
ISBN 10: 1526173336
Series: Progress in Political Economy
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 01 August 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 -- .
Lian Sinclair is Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney and Honorary Research Fellow, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Science at Murdoch University