The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects [E-Book]
Standing on the broken ground of resource extraction settings, the state is sometimes like a chimera: its appearance and intentions are misleading and, for some actors, it is unknowable and incomprehensible. It may be easily mistaken for someone or something else, like a mining company, for example.
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Personal Name(s): | Bainton, Nicholas A., author |
Skrzypek, Emilia E. | |
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Canberra :
ANU Press,
2021
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1 online resource (380 pages) |
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englisch |
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9781760464486 9781760464493 |
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Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs ;
15 |
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Figure 0.1 Bikpela mining kamap na ol sumatin blong university blong Queensland kisim helikopta na lukluk raun long mining area: social responsibility in mining students. [Large-scale mining has come up and the students of the University of Queensland got
- Figure 1.1 Map of Australia and Papua New Guinea with resource extraction projects and sites noted in this volume
- Figure 2.1 Location of the Frieda River Project
- Figure 2.2 Frieda River Project area
- Figure 3.1 Enga Province
- Figure 3.2 Porgera mining area
- Figure 4.1 The Lihir group of islands, and key locations noted in this chapter
- Figure 4.2 The 1995 IBP agreement
- Figure 4.3 IBP2 agreement and LSDP structure
- Figure 4.4 The Lihir IBP agreements (1995 and 2007)
- Figure 4.5 The institutional landscape in Lihir (past and present)
- Figure 5.1 Hela geography
- Figure 5.2 Huli house with smoke oozing through the roof
- Figure 5.3 Gigira Range with cloud
- Figure 5.4 Gigira Laitebo ship
- Figure 5.5 ExxonMobil's HGCP on Gigira Range
- Figure 6.1 A coal seam gas field in the Western Downs region
- Figure 6.2 The Western Downs local government area and Curtis Island, the location of LNG processing and export facilities some 500 km to the north
- Figure 6.3 Lock the Gate Alliance paraphernalia at a demonstration in Brisbane, Australia, 2015
- Figure 8.1 McArthur River Mine and surrounding region, Northern Territory
- Figure 8.2 Jacky Green and Sean Kerins at Open Cut, Darwin, 2017
- Figure 8.3 Jacky Green, Red Country, 2017, 96 x 88 cm, acrylic on canvas
- Figure 9.1 Map of lower Gulf of Carpentaria, northwest Queensland
- Figure 10.1 Provincial shareholding in New Caledonian nickel refineries
- Figure 10.2 Mining and petroleum taxes collected in PNG during the 2010s
- Abbreviations and Currency Conversion Rates
- Contributors.
- Preface
- 1. An Absent Presence: Encountering the State Through Natural Resource Extraction in Papua New Guinea and Australia
- 2. Categorical Dissonance: Experiencing Gavman at the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea
- 3. 'Restraint without Control': Law and Order in Porgera and Enga Province, 1950-2015
- 4. Being Like a State: How Large‑Scale Mining Companies Assume Government Roles in Papua New Guinea
- 5. Absence as Immoral Act: The PNG LNG Project and the Impact of an Absent State
- 6. In Between Presence and Absence: Ambiguous Encounters of the State in Unconventional Gas Developments in Queensland, Australia
- 7. The State's Selective Absence: Extractive Capitalism, Mining Juniors and Indigenous Interests in the Northern Territory
- 8. Broken Promise Men: The Malevolent Absence of the State at the McArthur River Mine, Northern Territory
- 9. The State's Stakes at the Century Mine, 1992-2012
- 10. The State That Cannot Absent Itself: New Caledonia as Opposed to Papua New Guinea and Australia
- Afterword: States of Uncertainty.