Categorical dissonance : experiencing Gavman at the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea

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An absent presence : encountering the state through natural resource extraction in Papua New Guinea and Australia

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REVEALING THE INVISIBLE MINE:Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

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, 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

REVEALING THE INVISIBLE MINE:Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

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, 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

The value of a river: mining projects and cross-cultural environmentalism in Papua New Guinea

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Positionality and ethics

We are now living in the ‘mineral age’ where the global economy, and our daily lives, are thoroughly entwined with the exploitation of natural resources. Making sense of these resource encounters and relations requires novel ways of researching extractive processes, and methods capable of engaging diverse sets of actors and interests across contested terrains. In this chapter we summarise some of the positions occupied by anthropologists in resource arenas and place them in the wider context of the changing field of resource extraction – recognising that new positions are continually emerging, these positions can overlap and that many anthropologists move between them over the course of their career as they investigate extractive effects. We consider the implications that different positions create for methodology and knowledge, and review the ethical dilemmas and future directions for an anthropology of extraction