Undermining Resistance - The Governance of Participation By Multinational Mining Corporations

Why 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.

About the author

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

Summary

Why 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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Lian Sinclair
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781526173331
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-7333-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Progress in Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Capitalism, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Political Economy, Economic systems & structures, Social impact of environmental issues, Mining Industry, Extractive industries