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Matthew G. Allen

Resource Extraction and Contentious States

Mining and the Politics of Scale in the Pacific Islands

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This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions. Addressing the strong association in Melanesia between extractive resource industries and a spectrum of violence ranging from interpersonal to collective forms, it questions whether islands are particularly potent spaces for the contentious politics that attend enclave economies. The book brings island studies literature into a closer conversation with political and economic geography, demonstrating that islands… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-981-10-8119-4
  • EAN: 9789811081194
  • Produktnummer: 25398632
  • Verlag: Springer Singapore
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 164 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.4 cm 333 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
  • Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 333

Über den Autor


Matthew G. Allen is Professor of Development Studies at the University of the South Pacific. He is a human geographer with over twenty years experience working in the Melanesian Pacific, and has previously held a number of academic appointments at the Australian National University. 

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