Revealing the Invisible Mine: Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

Revealing the Invisible Mine: Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project
ISBN-10
1789208572
ISBN-13
9781789208573
Category
Social Science
Pages
251
Language
English
Published
2020-10-08
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Emilia Skrzypek

Description

Exploring the social complexities of the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea, this book tells the story of local stakeholder strategies on the eve of industrial development, largely from the perspective of the Paiyamo – one of the project’s so-called ‘impact communities’. Engaging ideas of knowledge, belief and personhood, it explains how fifty years of encounters with exploration companies shaped the Paiyamo’s aspirations, made them revisit and re-examine their past, and develop new strategies to move towards a better, more prosperous future.

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