Dissecting Corporate Community Development in the Large-Scale Melanesian Mining Sector

Banks, Glenn; Kuir-Ayius, Dora; Kombako, David; Sagir, Bill F.

doi:10.22459/lmlp.10.2017.07

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“…At the same time mining pursues a series of other interventions that also seek to secure the consent or at least tolerance of populations, understood as a social licence to operate (Owen, ). Some interventions are supported through company Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility programmes, or programmes of social, community and small business development – interventions that look very similar to the longer history of rural and community development programmes on which they draw for lessons, and that can often fail precisely because of constraints and incentives established by immanent development (Banks, Kuir‐Ayius, Kombako, & Sagir, ). Other interventions can also include massive programmes of urban renewal, or water supply and desalination, that bear more resemblance to projects on the size of modest World Bank loans than to community‐based projects.…”

Section: Mining Place and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mining, movements and sustainable development: Concepts for a framework

Bebbington

2018

Sustainable Development

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Mining disrupts: it ruptures the boundary between the surface and the sub-surface, it upsets pre-existing modes of living on the surface, it changes biogeochemical, social and economic flows across surfaces, and it transforms imaginations of the future.Mining not only moves mountains, it also moves peoplephysically, emotionally, politically and economically. Some people leave, some refuse to get out of the way, some carry on, some stay but build new livelihoods, and others arrive in pursuit of the livelihoods made possible by this particular form of development. Development also disrupts: it modifies modes of living and social organization, it alters relations between humans and nature, it deepens the integration of places into broader flows of finance and ideas, and it shifts ideas about the future. Development is also implicated in the forced, voluntary and induced movement of people. Analytically, mining and development are therefore not dissimilar. This paper works from this similarity to suggest concepts for thinking about the relationships between mining, movement and development. These concepts are drawn from literature in Human Geography, Rural Territorial Development and Development Studies. It then uses these concepts to frame the relationships between mining and sustainable development.

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Section: Mining Place and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mining, movements and sustainable development: Concepts for a framework

Bebbington

2018

Sustainable Development

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“…This paper explores these community perspectives on CSR. While it comes out of research into corporate community development (CCD) initiatives in tourism and mining in the Pacific (see Banks, Kuir‐Ayius, Kombako, & Sagir, ; Banks, Scheyvens, McLennan, & Bebbington, ), the paper takes a step back from the case studies to frame questions of corporate responsibility and community development more broadly. In doing so, it draws on recent accounts of CSR and CCD from a range of locations and sectors, mostly in non‐Western settings, to develop the argument and framework.…”

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“…Although states are always present through their regulation of private sector activities, sometimes through equity shares, and through the broad framing of state–citizen relationships, their limited material presence is a critical element in community expectations of the corporations that operate in their region. In short, communities will shift their gaze to the corporation as the entity that can deliver development, and the state often assumes an increasing impotence and irrelevance in local minds (Banks et al, ; Bebbington, ).…”

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Reversing the lens: Why corporate social responsibility is not community development

McLennan

Banks

2018

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Corporate activities have impacts on different groups across societies, and businesses therefore have different sets of responsibilities to these groups. These are increasingly being addressed through corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate community development (CCD) initiatives, and there is now a wide body of literature that highlights the value of CSR for business. However, less attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of these activities from the perspective of communities.This paper "reverses the lens" to explore these community perspectives. We argue that communities see and evaluate CSR/CCD in terms of the broader immanent effects of the corporate presence rather than simply the intentional CSR programs and prioritize relationships over material outcomes. We outline an agenda for corporations that begins with the realization that core business practices can impact profoundly on long-term community development and that effective contributions require corporations to "embrace chaos" and to develop the types of relationships that foreground community goals and priorities.

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“…These interventions are mainly directed towards the management or governance of people, policies, landscapes and resources in ways that secure resource investments and extend extractive capitalism, as well as other sociopolitical projects. Some of these interventions are designed to secure local support for these ventures, which can take the form of community development programs and investment in other forms of 'intentional development' that are designed to mitigate the immanent processes associated with resource extraction (Banks et al 2017). Here we begin to see a convergence of interest between states and private companies, both in terms of function (as companies assume state responsibilities) and style (creeping bureaucratisation and managerialism).…”

Section: Implicating the State In The Extraction Of Resourcesmentioning

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The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects

Oppermann

2022

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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He has been studying the social impacts of large-scale resource extraction in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. He has written widely on the social and political effects of extractive capitalism in Melanesia and is the author of The Lihir Destiny: Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia (2010) and editor (with McDougall, Alexeyeff and Cox) of Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific (2021), both published by ANU Press.

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Dissecting Corporate Community Development in the Large-Scale Melanesian Mining Sector

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Mining, movements and sustainable development: Concepts for a framework

Mining, movements and sustainable development: Concepts for a framework

Reversing the lens: Why corporate social responsibility is not community development

The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects

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