State Crime on the Margins of Empire - Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining

Investigates state involvement in war crimes surrounding activists on the island of Bougainville, who struggled to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine

List of contents

Series Introduction Abbreviations 1 State Crime and the Empire of Capital 2 The Specificities of Papua New Guinea's Development 3 From Landowner Crisis to Industrial Sabotage 4 Eight Days that Shook BCL, the First Mine Shutdown and its Aftermath 5 A Tale of Two Solutions - Counterinsurgency Warfare and the Bougainville Package 6 The Making of Civil War on Bougainville 7 State Crime and Really Existing Capitalism: The Lessons of Bougainville Afterword: Impunity, Civil Society and the Struggle Ahead in Melanesia Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

Kristian Lasslett is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Ulster and sits on the International State Crime Initiative's executive board. He is the author of State Crime on the Margins of Empire: Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining (Pluto, 2014), and editor of the State Crime Testimony Project and joint editor-in-chief of State Crime.

Summary

Investigates state involvement in war crimes surrounding activists on the island of Bougainville, who struggled to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine

Product details

• Authors: Kristian Lasset, Kristian Lasslett, Lasslett Kristian
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2014
• EAN: 9780745335032
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3503-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: State Crime; State Crime
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Latin America, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state