Just Relations and Company–Community Conflict in Mining

Kemp, Deanna; Owen, John R.; Götzmann, Nora; Bond, Carol Janson

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“…Research on mining community conflicts is often biased towards community-level perspectives (e.g. Hilson and Yakovleva, 2007;Holden et al, 2011;Kemp et al, 2011;Yakovleva and Vazquez-Brust, 2012) whereas only a reduced number of studies also document management perspectives on conflicts exposing the arguments of contending parties (Bebbington and Bury, 2009;Garvin et al, 2009) or seeking to discover reporting gaps between disclosure and performance (Adams, 2004 Critical studies on the current mining model in Argentina focus on environmental, economic and ethical concerns, referring to extractivism as a 'loot', emphasising the resistance of local grassroots movements with thick descriptions of the socio-environmental conflicts and discourse analyses (Galafassi, 2008;Robledo and Lumerman, 2009;Rodríguez Pardo, 2009;Solanas, 2007;Svampa and Antonelli, 2009;Walter, 2008). Rather than focussing on mining-related disputes, others stress the positive contributions of mining to economies and society (Jordán et al, 2004;; Secretaría de Minería de la Nación, 2012).…”

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“…Contending parties include multinational mining corporations, national and local governments, international and local NGOs, self-organized local groups, the media, and scholars analysing the conflicts and the stakeholders involved. Conflicts are caused by various factors such as an inequitable distribution of risks, impacts and benefits (Kemp et al, 2011), bad governance practices (Robinson et al, 2006), stakeholder power inequalities, perception gaps and cultural contexts (Calvano, 2008), among others. However, particularly critical is the use of open pit technology for the extraction of low-grade mineral deposits in large-scale operations, nowadays the preeminent technique to extract metals since ore grades have been decreasing over time (Mudd, 2004).…”

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“…These often result in the costs outweighing the benefits for society and the environment. This triggers the appearance of disputes, which, if not properly tackled, can escalate to a point where local communities exert economic costs to companies including project delays, damaged infrastructure, harm to reputation and possible negative financial consequences or even the shut down of mines (Franks, 2009;Kemp et al, 2011).…”

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Sustainability reporting on large-scale mining conflicts: the case of Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina

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Multinational mining companies operating in Latin America increasingly publish sustainability reports which outline their contributions to sustainable development. Companies argue that reports help communities better understand the importance of the benefits created by mining. However, we argue that sustainability reporting can only play a role in improving a company's performance and reputation if the quality of the reported data is good enough to answer community-raised contentious issues and if such are tackled through a stakeholder engagement process which includes 'anti-mining' groups. The paper examines a mining conflict in Argentina's Bajo de la Alumbrera open pit mine. The assessment is based on a content analysis of Alumbrera's Sustainability Report (SR), primarily from 2009, complemented with insights from the 2010 and 2011 reports. The study reveals that environmental and economic indicators are the most contentious and least reported. The reports examined only briefly acknowledge these issues, and fail to detail the procedures followed to identify and engage stakeholders.

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“…), or indirectly by contributing to development of other local companies. However, creation of a sustainable community heritage remains a big challenge [13] insists on a proper consideration of community expectations, which will help to improve trust between stakeholders and to minimize the conflicts [14].…”

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Dissemination of Sustainable Practices in Moroccan Automotive Industry: Case of Renault-Tangier.

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“…This dimension is particularly important in matters relating to mining, as 'political voicelessness' of those communities at the local scale in the Global South affected by mining activity has been well documented as a key contributor to conflict (key research include Kemp et al, 2011;Davis and Franks, 2014). For example, McKenna (2014) notes in her analysis of Bougainville Mine, the political exclusion of some clans has incited tension and conflict at the local level as they were unable to participate in decision-making processes relating to mining activity, and thus unable to access the benefits such as employment or business opportunities.…”

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Social impact assessment, social justice and scales of knowledge: exploring the emerging mining industry in Solomon Islands

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This thesis examines power relations in the context of social impact assessment (SIA) as it is applied in the emerging mining industry in Solomon Islands. While the social impacts of large-scale mining in the Global South are well documented, little is known about how and why adverse social impacts continue to occur in the presence of numerous 'best practice' policy and planning tools, including SIA. This raises questions on the efficacy of SIA in identifying, contextualising and mitigating potential social impacts on communities affected by mining activity, particularly on traditional lands inhabited by indigenous peoples.This thesis presents a critical analysis of SIA to provide insight on this disparity in policy and practice, and to enhance sociological understanding on the interplay of globally-driven mining projects, the identification of social impacts, and the role of policy and institutions in cross-cultural contexts. The proposed extraction of nickel in Isabel Province, Solomon Islands, serves as the case study for this analysis. Employing the conceptual frameworks of social justice and political ecology, and drawing on six months' fieldwork in Solomon Islands, qualitative data from individual and group interviews (n=33) and document analysis (n=11) was collected across geopolitical scales -international, national, provincial and local -to compare and analyse perspectives of documents, institutions and people towards SIA and socially just development in the context of potential mining activity. Analysis of these perspectives exposed the extent to which SIA produces, reinforces and/or exacerbates, social injustices.Research findings identified the limits of SIA in: 1) recognising and accounting for indigenous identities and gender roles; 2) the unequal distribution of economic and other resources associated with the development of mining, including the privatisation of land and employment; and 3) representation of project-affected communities through consultation activities associated with SIA, including Free, Prior and Informed Consent. With political ecology as the foundation of this thesis, this thesis argues that these social injustices materialise as a result of a disparity, or mismatch, between knowledge frames across scales.While SIA is bounded to the rhetoric of social justice, consent and participation, this thesis demonstrates that Western expert knowledge and norms are interwoven into the SIA regime, rendering local experiential knowledge marginal. Reflecting this, a multiscale SIA approach is proposed to include consideration of different scales of knowledge systems, iii with outcomes that might assist to mitigate social injustices, such as those identified in this

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Just Relations and Company–Community Conflict in Mining

Abstract: mining, minerals, community, conflict, grievance, justice, stakeholder, organization, CSR,

Cited by 132 publications

References 39 publications

Sustainability reporting on large-scale mining conflicts: the case of Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina

Sustainability reporting on large-scale mining conflicts: the case of Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina

Dissemination of Sustainable Practices in Moroccan Automotive Industry: Case of Renault-Tangier.

Social impact assessment, social justice and scales of knowledge: exploring the emerging mining industry in Solomon Islands

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