The Absent presence of the state in large-scale resource extraction projects /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Acton, Australian Capital Territory : ANU Press, 2021.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 359 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Asia-Pacific environment monographs Asia-Pacific environment monographs.
Subject:	Mines and mineral resources -- Australia. Mines and mineral resources -- Papua New Guinea. Mines and mineral resources -- Government policy -- Australia. Mines and mineral resources -- Government policy -- Papua New Guinea. Mines and mineral resources. Mines and mineral resources -- Government policy. Australia. Papua New Guinea. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12659731

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Other authors / contributors:	Bainton, Nicholas A., editor. Skrzypek, Emilia E., editor.
ISBN:	9781760464493 176046449X 1760464481 9781760464486
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF 10.3MB
Language / Script:	Licensed under Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Notes:	National edeposit: Available online Unrestricted online access.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: 1760464481 9781760464486

Table of Contents:

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.

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