Overview
- Considers key links between extractive industries, political violence and state formation
- Offers a cross disciplinary study of natural resource conflict in the Global South
- Provides a cutting edge policy oriented perspective on socio-spatial relations at the heart of enclave economies
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This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions. Addressing the strong association in Melanesia between extractive resource industries and a spectrum of violence ranging from interpersonal to collective forms, it questions whether islands are particularly potent spaces for the contentious politics that attend enclave economies. The book brings island studies literature into a closer conversation with political and economic geography, demonstrating that islands provide rich spaces for the investigation of the socio-spatial relations at the heart of human geography’s theoretical cannon. The book also has a real-world policy edge, as the sustained and growing dominance of extractive industries, in concert with the highly contentious politics that they engender, places them at the centre of efforts to understand state formation, political reordering and the on-going negotiation of political settlements of various types throughout post-colonial Melanesia. It considers how extractive resource industries can shape processes of state formation, shedding new light on Melanesia’s resource curse.
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“A fascinating and innovative critical political geography of the intersections of mining, culture and violence in two significant resource frontiers.” (John Connell, Professor of Geography, University of Sydney, Australia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Matthew G. Allen is Professor of Development Studies at the University of the South Pacific. He is a human geographer with over twenty years experience working in the Melanesian Pacific, and has previously held a number of academic appointments at the Australian National University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resource Extraction and Contentious States
Book Subtitle: Mining and the Politics of Scale in the Pacific Islands
Authors: Matthew G. Allen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8120-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8119-4Published: 03 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8120-0Published: 20 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 148
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Sociology, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Environmental Politics