My Country, Mine Country

My Country, Mine Country
Author: Benedict Scambary
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1922144738

Agreements between the mining industry and Indigenous people are not creating sustainable economic futures for Indigenous people, and this demands consideration of alternate forms of economic engagement in order to realise such futures. Within the context of three mining agreements in north Australia this study considers Indigenous livelihood aspirations and their intersection with sustainable development agendas. The three agreements are the Yandi Land Use Agreement in the Central Pilbara in Western Australia, the Ranger Uranium Mine Agreement in the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory, and the Gulf Communities Agreement in relation to the Century zinc mine in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland. Recent shifts in Indigenous policy in Australia seek to de-emphasise the cultural behaviour or imperatives of Indigenous people in undertaking economic action, in favour of a mainstream conventional approach to economic development. Concepts of value, identity, and community are key elements in the tension between culture and economics that exists in the Indigenous policy environment. Whilst significant diversity exists within the Indigenous polity, Indigenous aspirations for the future typically emphasise a desire for alternate forms of economic engagement that combine elements of the mainstream economy with the maintenance and enhancement of Indigenous institutions and livelihood activities. Such aspirations reflect ongoing and dynamic responses to modernity, and typically concern the interrelated issues of access to and management of country, the maintenance of Indigenous institutions associated with family and kin, access to resources such as cash and vehicles, the establishment of robust representative organisations, and are integrally linked to the derivation of both symbolic and economic value of livelihood pursuits.

Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods

Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods
Author: Dr Emma Gilberthorpe
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-02-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 140947268X

This book provides an extended analysis of how resource extraction projects stimulate social, cultural and economic change in indigenous communities. Through a range of case studies, including open cast mining, artisanal mining, logging, deforestation, oil extraction and industrial fishing, the contributors explore the challenges highlighted in global debates on sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and climate change. The case studies are used to assess whether and how development processes might compete and conflict with the market objectives of multinational corporations and the organizational and moral principles of indigenous communities. Emphasizing the perspectives of directly-affected parties, the authors identify common patterns in the way in which extraction projects are conceptualized, implemented and perceived. The book provides a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the human environments where resource extraction takes place and its consequent impacts on local livelihoods. Its in-depth case studies underscore the need for increased social accountability in the planning and development of natural resource extraction projects.

The Gulliver File

The Gulliver File
Author: Roger Moody
Publisher: International Books
Total Pages: 1046
Release: 1992
Genre: Indigenous peoples
ISBN:

Shifting Livelihoods

Shifting Livelihoods
Author: Daniel Tubb
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0295747544

Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book Prize The many dimensions of gold in a shadow economy People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining companies prospect for open-pit mega-mines. Drug traffickers launder cocaine profits by smuggling gold into Colombia and claiming it came from fictitious small-scale mines. Through an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, Shifting Livelihoods investigates how resource extraction reshapes a place. In the Chocó, gold enables forms of “shift” (rebusque)—a metaphor for the fluid livelihood strategy adopted by forest dwellers and migrant gold miners alike as they seek informal work amid a drug war. Mining’s effects on rural people, corporations, and politics are on view in this fine-grained account of daily life in a regional economy dominated by gold and cocaine.

Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods

Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods
Author: Emma Gilberthorpe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317089707

This book provides an extended analysis of how resource extraction projects stimulate social, cultural and economic change in indigenous communities. Through a range of case studies, including open cast mining, artisanal mining, logging, deforestation, oil extraction and industrial fishing, the contributors explore the challenges highlighted in global debates on sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and climate change. The case studies are used to assess whether and how development processes might compete and conflict with the market objectives of multinational corporations and the organizational and moral principles of indigenous communities. Emphasizing the perspectives of directly-affected parties, the authors identify common patterns in the way in which extraction projects are conceptualized, implemented and perceived. The book provides a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the human environments where resource extraction takes place and its consequent impacts on local livelihoods. Its in-depth case studies underscore the need for increased social accountability in the planning and development of natural resource extraction projects.

Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods

Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods
Author: Thierry Rodon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781032516288

This book maps the encounters between Indigenous Peoples and local communities with mining companies in various post-colonial contexts. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and the extractive industries, sustainable development, natural resource management, and Indigenous Peoples.

Human and Societal Security in the Circumpolar Arctic

Human and Societal Security in the Circumpolar Arctic
Author: Kamrul Hossain
Publisher: Studies in Polar Law
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2018
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789004363014

Understanding human security as a tool to promote societal security in the Arctic / Kamrul Hossain, Miguel Roncero and Anna Petretei -- Policies and strategies for the Arctic : a review of the approaches to human security in the Arctic / Jose Miguel Roncero -- The interplay of the human security and sustainable development concepts : the case of Russia's Arctic industrial centers / Alexander Sergunin -- Human security, risk and sustainability in the Swedish policy for the Arctic / Sara Nyhlen, Katarina Giritli Nygren, Anna Olofsson and Johanna Bergstrom -- Colonialism, statehood, and Sami in norden and the Norwegian high north / Wilfrid Greaves -- Outer space and indigenous security : Sweden's ESRANGE launch site and the human security of the Sami / Michael Sheehan -- The value of the Barents region : more than a resource provider / Corinna Casi -- Whether and how social work could address the long-term socio-environmental risks caused by the mining industry in northern Finland / Satu Ranta-Tyrkko -- Achieving human and societal security in oil producing regions : Komi-Izhma community perspective from Pripechorʹe, Russia / Julia Loginova -- The role of hydrocarbon development in Arctic governance : a suitable approach for human development in the region? / Gerald Zojer -- Arctic society and societal security : a reference to extractive developments in northern Fennoscandia / Kamrul Hossain, Anna Petretei -- Indigenous rights and livelihoods as concerns in the decision-making on extractive industries in Finland / Stefan Kirchner -- Innocence challenged : perceptions and constructions of human security in Scandinavian literature on the arctic / Helene Peterbauer and Jose Miguel Roncero Martin -- Digital storytelling : a bottom-up approach to gender & human security in the Barents region? / Tahnee Lisa Prior -- Cultural identity in families with "the Finnish origin" living in a Russian speaking environment (according to material of Murmansk Region) / Elena Busyreva -- Favorite and least favorite places of the northern border cities (as exemplified in the drawings of schoolchildren of Nikel and Kirkenes) / Tatiana Zhigaltsova -- The Aarctic : a region in motion / Kamrul Hossain, Miguel Roncero and Anna Petretei

Fighting for Andean Resources

Fighting for Andean Resources
Author: Vladimir R. Gil Ramón
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816530718

Mining investment in Peru has been presented as necessary for national progress; however, it also has brought socioenvironmental costs, left unfulfilled hopes for development, and has become a principal source of confrontation and conflict. Fighting for Andean Resources focuses on the competing agendas for mining benefits and the battles over their impact on proximate communities in the recent expansion of the Peruvian mining frontier. The book complements renewed scrutiny of how globalization nurtures not solely antagonism but also negotiation and participation. Having mastered an intimate knowledge of Peru, Vladimir R. Gil Ramón insightfully documents how social technologies of power are applied through social technical protocols of accountability invoked in defense of nature and vulnerable livelihoods. Although analyses point to improvements in human well-being, a political and technical debate has yet to occur in practice that would define what such improvements would be, the best way to achieve and measure them, and how to integrate dimensions such as sustainability and equity. Many confrontations stem from frustrated expectations, environmental impacts, and the virtual absence of state apparatus in the locations where new projects emerged. This book presents a multifaceted perspective on the processes of representation, the strategies in conflicts and negotiations of development and nature management, and the underlying political actions in sites affected by mining.