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advocacy groups
anthropology
Author_Stuart Kirsch
big business
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comparative research
conservation
copper mine
corporate power
corporations
environmental disaster
environmental impacts
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gold mine
historical
indigenous people
industry
lawyers
local rivers
natural resource extraction industry
natural resources
nature
nongovernmental organizations
ok tedi
papua new guinea
political
political movements
politics
poor people
power and wealth
powerful institutions
rain forests
science
social responsibility
sustainability
Product details
- ISBN 9780520281707
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts. Consequently, political movements and nongovernmental organizations increasingly contest the risks that corporations pose to people and nature. Mining Capitalism examines the strategies through which corporations manage their relationships with these critics and adversaries. By focusing on the conflict over the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea, Stuart Kirsch tells the story of a slow-moving environmental disaster and the international network of indigenous peoples, advocacy groups, and lawyers that sought to protect local rivers and rain forests. Along the way, he analyzes how corporations promote their interests by manipulating science and invoking the discourses of sustainability and social responsibility. Based on two decades of anthropological research, this book is comparative in scope, showing readers how similar dynamics operate in other industries around the world.
Stuart Kirsch is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea (2006).
