Extractive Relations: Countervailing Power and the Global Mining Industry

ISBN-13: 9781783534791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str.

John R. Owen; Deanna Kemp

Opis

Mining is a socially contentious activity. Global debates are intensifying around the extractive industries' social and environmental responsibilities and impacts on human rights, natural resources, culture, lands and livelihoods continue to dominate global discussion.

Over the past decade, academic research has attempted to understand the dynamic effects of mining on society and the environment. However, the interface between the internal workings of mining organizations and the social environment outside the fence continues to elude scholars. How mining companies conceptualize, strategize, operationalize and relate to these problems and challenges is a critical, but much overlooked, piece of the corporate social responsibility puzzle.

In this book the authors attempt to fill this gap, arguing that the social dimensions of mining are largely absent from the industry's contemporary research and policy improvement agenda. From authors with significant practical and academic expertise, the analysis is informed by actual work on the ground and close observance of the industry over many years. It will be immensely valuable to both practitioner and academic audiences.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. An interlude on social licence and countervailing power: from metaphor to realism  3. Social licence and mining: A critical perspective  4. An interlude on community relations: A dual proposition  5. Community relations and mining: Core to business but not core business  6. An interlude on the industrial rendering of voluntary obligation over involuntary displacement  7. Mining-induced displacement and resettlement: a critical appraisal  8. An interlude on the confluence of countervailing pressures  9. 'Free prior and informed consent', social complexity and the mining industry  10. An interlude on remedy systems and the dangers of monopoly capital  11. Grievance handling at a foreign-owned mine in Southeast Asia  12. Conclusion