Revealing the Invisible Mine

Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-856-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists

Exploring the social complexities of the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea, this book tells the story of local stakeholder strategies on the eve of industrial development, largely from the perspective of the Paiyamo – one of the project’s so-called ‘impact communities’. Engaging ideas of knowledge, belief and personhood, it explains how fifty years of encounters with exploration companies shaped the Paiyamo’s aspirations, made them revisit and re-examine their past, and develop new strategies to move towards a better, more prosperous future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skrzypek, Emilia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Bergbau, Hüttenwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustration, Figures, Maps and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Text

Introduction

Chapter 1. Role Play

Chapter 2. Making up Paiyamo

Chapter 3. Make-Believe

Chapter 4. The Book of Paiyamo

Chapter 5. Precipitating the Mine

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Skrzypek, Emilia
Emilia Skrzypek is a social anthropologist based at the University of St Andrews. Her research to date has largely focused on Papua New Guinea where she works on issues related to broadly conceived resource relations and interdependencies.