Isbn: 9780745335049 - state crime on the margins of empire: rio tinto, the war on bougainville and resistance to mining (5 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 242 pages. light wear, sticker on coverThis book offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of state-corporat e crime within the mining industries. It follows a single, brutal campaign of re sistance organised by indigenous activists on the island of Papua New Guinea, wh o struggled against a decision to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine, and inves tigates the subsequent state-corporate response, which led to the shocking loss of some 10,000 lives. Drawing on internal records and interviews with se nior officials, Kristian Lasslett examines how an articulation of capitalist gro wth mediated through patrimonial politics, imperial state-power, large-scale min ing, and clan-based, rural society, prompted an ostensibly 'responsible' corpora te citizen, and liberal state actors, to organise a counterinsurgency campaign p unctuated with gross human rights abuses. State Crime on the Margins of Empire represents a unique intervention rooted in a classical Marxist tradition that challenges positivist streams of criminological scholarship, in order to il luminate with greater detail the historical forces faced by communities in the g lobal south caught in the increasingly violent dynamics of the extractive indust ries.…

Zustand: New. Investigates state involvement in war crimes surrounding activists on the island of Bougainville, who struggled to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine Series: State Crime. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; JKVK; JPW; KNAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …