Revealing the Invisible Mine - Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Emilia Skrzypek, Emilia E. Skrzypek, Emilia Skrzypek Skrzypek
• Verlag: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781789208566
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-856-6
• Seiten: 252
• Serien: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists; Pacific Perspectives: Studies
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mining, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Iron, Steel & Metals Industries, Iron, steel and other metal industries, SDG 12