State crime on the margins of Empire : Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to mining /

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This book offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of state-corporate crime within the mining industry. It follows a campaign of resistance organised by Indigenous activists on the island of Bougainville, who struggled to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine, and investigates the subseque...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lasslett, Kristian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London [England] : Pluto Press, 2014.
Series:State crime (Pluto Press)
Subjects:
State crimes.
Crimes d'État.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
State crimes
History.
Bougainville.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Vi. State Crime Series Introduction
  • viii. Abbreviations
  • ix. Acknowledgements
  • 1. State Crime and the Empire of Capital
  • 2. The Specificities of Papua New Guinea's Development
  • 3. From Landowner Crisis to Industrial Sabotage
  • 4. Eight Days that Shook BCL, the FIrst Mine Shutdown and its Aftermath
  • 5. A Tale of Two Solutions
  • Counterinsurgency Warfare and the Bougainville Package
  • 6. The Making of Civil War on Bougainville
  • 7. State Crime and Really Existing Capitalism: The Lessons of Bougainville
  • Afterword: Impunity, Civil Society and the Struggle Ahead in Melanesia.
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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