Suchergebnisse

An absent presence : encountering the state through natural resource extraction in Papua New Guinea and Australia / Nicholas Bainton and Emilia E. Skrzypek -- Categorical dissonance : experiencing Gavman at the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea / Emilia E. Skrzypek -- 'Restraint without control" : law and order in Porgera and Enga Privince, 1950-2015 / Alex Golub -- Being like a state : how large-scale mining companies assume government roles in Papua New Guinea / Nicholas Bainton and Martha Macintyre -- Absence as immoral act : the PNG_LNG Project and the impact of an absent state / Michael Main -- In between presence and absence : ambiguous encounters of the state in unconventional gas developments in Queensland, Australia / Martin Espig -- The state's selective absence : extractive capitalism, mining juniors and indigenous interests in the Northern Territory / Sarah Holcombe -- Broken promise men : the malevolent absence of the state at the McArthur River Mine, Northern Territory / Gareth Lewis -- The state's stakes at the Century Mine, 1992-2012 / Jo-Anne Everingham, David Trigger and Julie Keenan -- The state that cannot absent itself: New Caledonia as opposed to Papua New Guinea and Australia / John Burton and Claire Levacher -- Afterforward : States of uncertainty / Nicholas Bainton, John R. Owen and Emilia E. Skrzypek.

"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, told 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"--

Standing on the broken ground of resource extraction settings, the state is sometimes like a chimera: its appearance and intentions are misleading and, for some actors, it is unknowable and incomprehensible. It may be easily mistaken for someone or something else, like a mining company, for example. With rich ethnographic material, this volume tackles critical questions about the nature of contemporary states, studied from the perspective of resource extraction projects in Papua New Guinea, Australia and beyond. It brings together a sustained focus on the unstable and often dialectical relationship between the presence and the absence of the state in the context of resource extraction. Across the chapters, contributors discuss cases of proposed mining ventures, existing large-scale mining operations and the extraction of natural gas. Together, they illustrate how the concept of absent presence can be brought to life and how it can enhance our understanding of the state as well as relations and processes forming in extractive contexts, thus providing a novel contribution to the anthropology of the state and the anthropology of extraction.