Mining encounters: extractive industries in an overheated world

by Eriksen, Thomas Hylland Pijpers, Robert Jan

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Title Statements

Full title :Mining encounters : extractive industries in an overheated world / edited by Robert Jan Pijpers and Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Pluto Press
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

Notes

"Based on a workshop taking place in Oslo on 27-29 April 2015, this book follows previous Overheating publications on knowledge and power, destabilised identities, sustainability and growth, and the different facets of accelerated change in our day and age."--Page viii

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 180 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780745338378, 0745338372
oclc:on1014095419
LC Classification:HD9506.A2
Dewey Decimal:338.2

List of Figures and Maps; Preface; 1. Introduction: Negotiating the Multiple Edges of Mining Encounters -- Robert Jan Pijpers and Thomas Hylland Eriksen; 2. From Allegiance to Connection: Structural Injustice, Scholarly Norms and the Anthropological Ethics of Mining Encounters -- Alex Golub; 3. The 'Shooting Fields of Porgera Joint Venture': An Exploration of Corporate Power, Reputational Dynamics and Indigenous Agency -- Catherine Coumans; 4. Rubbish at the Border: A Minefield of Conservation Politics at the Lawa River, Suriname/French Guiana -- Sabine Luning and Marjo de Theije

5. Territories of Contestation: Negotiating Mining Concessions in Sierra Leone -- Robert Jan Pijpers6. Drilling Down Comparatively: Resource Histories, Subterranean Unconventional Gas and Diverging Social Responses in Two Australian Regions -- Kim de Rijke; 7. Coal Trafficking: Reworking National Energy Security via Coal Transport at the North Karanpura Coalfields, India -- Patrik Oskarsson and Nikas Kindo; 8. Diamonds and Plural Temporalities: Articulating Encounters in the Mines of Sierra Leone -- Lorenzo D'Angelo