(DOWNLOAD) "Politicized Ecology: Local Responses to Mining in Papua New Guinea." by Oceania " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Politicized Ecology: Local Responses to Mining in Papua New Guinea.
- Author : Oceania
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 240 KB
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The debates about mining and its negative environmental impact that dominate critiques of mining projects in the developing world (see Mineral Policy Institute and Oxfam CAA websites) assume that environmental awareness will be the basis for international political solidarity in campaigns to improve the performance of large mining companies. In Papua New Guinea, the cases of Bougainville and Ok Tedi superficially support such a view. But a more ethnographically detailed examination of protests about environmental damage often reveals complex and contradictory political responses. In a recent essay in The Contemporary Pacific, Glenn Banks (2002) challenged the view that Melanesian political responses to mining activities could be best understood as 'popular ecological resistance' (Hyndman 2000:40). He called for analysis of social conflicts surrounding mining projects in the Pacific to be undertaken within 'a more robust and widely applicable framework' (Banks 2002:40) that encompasses the social meanings of resources for the people who live there. In reviewing the more important recent anthologies on mining in the Australia-South Pacific region, Weiner (2001) also observes that:
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