Title The Absent presence of the state in large-scale resource extraction projects / edited by Nicholas Bainton and Emilia E. Skrzypek

Published Acton, Australian Capital Territory : ANU Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 359 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Asia-Pacific environment monographs Asia-Pacific environment monographs Contents An absent presence : encountering the state through natural resource extraction in Papua New Guinea and Australia / Nicholas Bainton and Emilia E. Skrzypek -- Categorical dissonance : experiencing Gavman at the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea / Emilia E. Skrzypek -- 'Restraint without control" : law and order in Porgera and Enga Privince, 1950-2015 / Alex Golub -- Being like a state : how large-scale mining companies assume government roles in Papua New Guinea / Nicholas Bainton and Martha Macintyre -- Absence as immoral act : the PNG_LNG Project and the impact of an absent state / Michael Main -- In between presence and absence : ambiguous encounters of the state in unconventional gas developments in Queensland, Australia / Martin Espig -- The state's selective absence : extractive capitalism, mining juniors and Indigenous interests in the Northern Territory / Sarah Holcombe -- Broken promise men : the malevolent absence of the state at the McArthur River Mine, Northern Territory / Gareth Lewis -- The state's stakes at the Century Mine, 1992-2012 / Jo-Anne Everingham, David Trigger and Julie Keenan -- The state that cannot absent itself: New Caledonia as opposed to Papua New Guinea and Australia / John Burton and Claire Levacher -- Afterforward : States of uncertainty / Nicholas Bainton, John R. Owen and Emilia E. Skrzypek Summary 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 Notes Licensed under Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 AU-CaNED Subject Mines and mineral resources -- Australia. Mines and mineral resources -- Papua New Guinea Mines and mineral resources -- Government policy -- Australia Mines and mineral resources -- Government policy -- Papua New Guinea Mines and mineral resources Mines and mineral resources -- Government policy Australia Papua New Guinea Form Electronic book Author Bainton, Nicholas A., editor Skrzypek, Emilia E., editor ISBN 9781760464493 176046449X

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