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

Abstract

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.