Boom back or blow back? Growth strategies in mono-industrial resource towns – ‘east’ and ‘west’

Saxinger, Gertrude; Petrov, Andrey N.; Krasnoshtanova, Natalia; Kuklina, Vera; Carson, Doris A.

doi:10.4337/9781784711962.00010

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“…The locals are not involved in these processes, and therefore receive small amounts of tax revenue returned back to the communities. Essentially, this system is not different from tax-based revenue streams in other resource regions [87].…”

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Between Soviet Legacy and Corporate Social Responsibility: Emerging Benefit Sharing Frameworks in the Irkutsk Oil Region, Russia

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Benefit sharing arrangements are a central element of the interactions between oil companies and local communities in resource regions of the Arctic and sub-Arctic. This paper focused on developing a systematic understanding and typology of benefit sharing arrangements within the oil sector in the Russian Arctic and sub-Arctic, using the Irkutsk Oil Region as a case study. It provided a critical analysis of prevalent arrangements and practices (modes and mechanisms of benefit sharing), as well as examined institutional and social underpinnings of these benefit sharing frameworks. Qualitative methodology with semi-structured interviews were used. The paper demonstrated that sub-Arctic communities are not equally benefiting from oil and gas extraction. Despite a considerable variety of existing arrangements revealed by this study, no benefit sharing mode or mechanism prevalent today ensures sustainable development of local communities. This may stem from the incompatibility between post-Soviet legacies, corporate social responsibility principles, and local institutional frameworks. Although focused on a particular region, this research was indicative of general benefit sharing patterns in modern Russia and beyond.

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Between Soviet Legacy and Corporate Social Responsibility: Emerging Benefit Sharing Frameworks in the Irkutsk Oil Region, Russia

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“…When there are no nearby settlements to provide a sufficient workforce, or where a daily commute is not possible, extraction sites are operated by mobile workers who stay in camps on site for an extended period and commute back and forth to their homes on a rotational basis. Decades ago, the mono-industrial resource town model -such as a Fordist or a Soviet company townprevailed in many regions of the world and provided labour for the extractive industries (Storey 2001;Markey, Storey, and Heisler 2011;Saxinger 2015;Saxinger et al 2016b). Today, company towns are too costly to maintain and do not meet the labour demands of a highly dynamic mineral extraction sector that goes through regular boom and bust cycles influenced by the flows of global capital.…”

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Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps

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2021

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Rotational shift work, long-distance commuting (LDC) and fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) have become increasingly prevalent forms of labour force provision in the resource extraction sector worldwide over the last few decades. This entails the workforce being on the move, with cycles of long shifts on site and extended periods back home. This article draws on ethnographic field work carried out in Arctic Russia and Subarctic Canada among petroleum and mining workers. It focusses on sociality processes in workers' camps. I employ the notion of 'meaningful sociality' among camp inhabitants, which comes about when workers experience 'rootedness along the way'. Both notions are basic elements of a long-term and satisfactory mobile and multilocal lifestyle. This article shows how the quality of rootedness, job satisfaction and wellbeing in such a labour setting are highly dependent on intersectional conditions of equality at interpersonal and politicoeconomic scales. Corporations are called upon to actively facilitate the necessary material and affective camp conditions to enable meaningful sociality and provide an equity-based atmosphere for people to become rooted along their way.

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“…An important keyword in contemporary Arctic social sciences and interdisciplinary research is sustainability, be it in terms of sustainable development, sustainable communities, or sociocultural, economic, and ecological development (Larsen and Fondahl 2014;Larsen et al 2010;Petrov et al 2016Petrov et al , 2017, all of which are closely tied to wellbeing. A key factor influencing such processes is the power relations between stakeholders and within a community, and aspects of intersectionality such as gender and age, or other distinctive components of a community (Petrov et al 2016) and its embedding in a national and global political economy.…”

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Neglected Transportation Infrastructure

2021

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Verkhnemarkovo, a small Siberian town located on an oil field in Russia’s Irkutsk region, is plagued by bad roads and limited mobility. This article explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the wellbeing of individuals and communities, with a focus on transport and mobility infrastructure. Some oil companies, such as Irkutsk Oil Company, are tied to the sustainability standards of international financial institutions. The article addresses the question of why people are in limbo between the state and local operating oil companies. Contemporary life in Verkhnemarkovo is characterized by so-called infrastructural violence, which results from the lack of state support—or false promises made by the state— and relates to good transport infrastructure. In their complaints, local people recall the Soviet past and expect support from the state or industry.

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Boom back or blow back? Growth strategies in mono-industrial resource towns – ‘east’ and ‘west’

Cited by 12 publications

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Between Soviet Legacy and Corporate Social Responsibility: Emerging Benefit Sharing Frameworks in the Irkutsk Oil Region, Russia

Between Soviet Legacy and Corporate Social Responsibility: Emerging Benefit Sharing Frameworks in the Irkutsk Oil Region, Russia

Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps

Neglected Transportation Infrastructure

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