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Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics
Stuart Kirsch
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Description for Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 black & white illustrations and 3 maps. BIC Classification: JHB; KCD; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520281714
SKU
V9780520281714
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Ref
99-32
About Stuart Kirsch
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).
Reviews for Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics
"A fresh, instructive, and often moving account... [Mining Capitalism] makes signifiicant contributions to conversations on mining, corporations, NGOs, and engaged anthropology." Journal of Anthropological Research "Kirsch [makes] valuable contributions to our understanding of company-community relations, corporate power and constructions of indigenous identity, albeit from radically different ethical positions." Asia Pacific Viewpoint