Lihir Destiny : Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia

Bainton, A Nicholas

doi:10.26530/oapen_459359

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“…In the Pacific, an extensive literature recognises that a range of alternative modernities can emerge. Much of this research has stressed the role of indigenous or pre‐colonial economic logics and social values in shaping contemporary forms of socio‐economy and values (for example, Carrier and Carrier, 1989; Thomas, 1991; Banks, 1999; Goddard, 2000; Imbun, 2000; van der Grijp, 2004; Sahlins, 2005; Barclay, 2006; Minnegal and Dwyer, 2007; Cahn, 2008; Curry and Koczberski, 2009; Thornton et al ., 2010; Bainton, 2011). These approaches have done much to counter metanarratives of an all powerful globalising and totalising capitalism that contaminates or obliterates non‐capitalist socio‐economic forms.…”

Section: Social Embeddedness Relational Concepts Of Economy and Labmentioning

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Relational Economies, Social Embeddedness and Valuing Labour in Agrarian Change: An Example from the Developing World

Curry

Koczberski

2012

Geographical Research

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A relatively neglected area of research on agrarian and economic change is the role of indigenous concepts of labour value in the transition from subsistence to market production. In West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, the presence of a migrant population on an oil palm land settlement scheme (LSS) in close proximity to village‐based oil palm growers, provided an opportunity to examine changing notions of labour value through the lens of smallholder productivity. Voluntary settlers on the LSS are experiencing population pressure and are highly dependent on oil palm for their livelihoods. In contrast, customary landowners in village settings produce oil palm in a situation of relative land abundance. By examining differences in how these two groups practise and value commodity production, the paper makes four key points. First, concepts of labour value are not static and involve struggles over how labour value is defined. Second, the transition to market‐based notions of labour value can undermine labour's social value with a consequent weakening of social relationships within and between families. Third, Theories of Value developed in western contexts and used to frame development policies and projects in the developing world are often inappropriate and even harmful to the welfare of communities that have different registers of value. Fourth, in response to Point 3, and following Rigg (2007), there is a need for ‘theorising upwards’ using empirical data from the developing world to inform theory rather than applying to the developing world models of sociality and economy developed in western contexts.

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Section: Social Embeddedness Relational Concepts Of Economy and Labmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relational Economies, Social Embeddedness and Valuing Labour in Agrarian Change: An Example from the Developing World

Curry

Koczberski

2012

Geographical Research

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“…A network of government-run aid posts, a clinic at a Catholic mission station, and the Lihir Medical Centre (LMC) (a hospital that serves both mine personnel and the public) deliver health care services. Yaws has long been endemic in the region; Dr. Robert Koch visited Lihir in 1900 and subsequently reported that he observed yaws throughout the Bismarck Archipelago, the group of islands that comprise the northeastern part of present-day Papua New Guinea [10,11].…”

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Spatial-temporal clustering analysis of yaws on Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea to enhance planning and implementation of eradication programs

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Mitjà

Murray

2018

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“…In certain circumstances, companies have sought to resettle displaced communities either within or in close proximity to the lease area (Bainton, 2013;. In certain circumstances, companies have sought to resettle displaced communities either within or in close proximity to the lease area (Bainton, 2013;.…”

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“…Heightened demand for real estate on the mine lease to store more waste could create conditions where mining-induced displacement from waste becomes a more frequent occurrence. In certain circumstances, companies have sought to resettle displaced communities either within or in close proximity to the lease area (Bainton, 2013;. This strategy has provided companies with the option of settling people on their own land with access to the project.…”

Section: Extensification Of Risk: Low Grades Displacement and Clomentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate responsibility and the social risk of new mining technologies

Keenan

Kemp

Owen

2019

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Advances in computing, robotics, artificial intelligence, communications, materials, and interactive technologies are disrupting the business-society interface in almost all sectors. The mining industry is projecting an overwhelmingly positive narrative about the new technologies it is investing in and is eager to promote their economic benefits. What is lacking, however, is discussion about how these technologies will be experienced by those most immediately impacted by mining: local communities.Mine-community relations are notoriously complex, and it is likely that incorporating new technologies into operations will further complicate this interface. At a minimum, responsible companies must understand the social impacts of new technologies and provide assurance that the use of these technologies will not put host communities at risk. We argue that due diligence is central to ensuring that downside social risks of new technologies are identified, understood, and managed.

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Lihir Destiny : Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia

Cited by 22 publications

References 33 publications

Relational Economies, Social Embeddedness and Valuing Labour in Agrarian Change: An Example from the Developing World

Relational Economies, Social Embeddedness and Valuing Labour in Agrarian Change: An Example from the Developing World

Spatial-temporal clustering analysis of yaws on Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea to enhance planning and implementation of eradication programs

Corporate responsibility and the social risk of new mining technologies

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