Resource Extraction and Contentious States
Mining and the Politics of Scale in the Pacific Islands
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-981-10-8120-0
- EAN: 9789811081200
- Produktnummer: 26760854
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 148 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'972 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
- Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie
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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