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Mining Capitalism : The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics
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ISBN: 9780520281707 9780520281714 0520281705 0520281713 0520957598 9780520957596 9781306802314 1306802318 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts. Consequently, political movements and nongovernmental organizations increasingly contest the risks that corporations pose to people and nature. Mining Capitalism examines the strategies through which corporations manage their relationships with these critics and adversaries. By focusing on the conflict over the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea, Stuart Kirsch tells the story of a slow-moving environmental disaster a

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Industrial economics --- Relation between energy and economics --- Papua New Guinea --- Mineral industries --- Copper mines and mining --- Gold mines and mining --- Environmental aspects --- Political aspects --- Ok Tedi Mining. --- Industries minières --- Cuivre --- Sociologie de l'environnement --- Aspect environnemental --- Aspect social --- Mines et extraction --- Copper mines and mining -- Papua New Guinea -- Ok Tedi Region. --- Gold mines and mining -- Papua New Guinea -- Ok Tedi Region. --- Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Papua New Guinea. --- Mineral industries -- Political aspects -- Papua New Guinea. --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A76 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Oceanië --- Ok Tedi Mining --- Mining industry --- Copper mines and mining -- Papua New Guinea -- Ok Tedi Region --- Gold mines and mining -- Papua New Guinea -- Ok Tedi Region --- Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Papua New Guinea --- Mineral industries -- Political aspects -- Papua New Guinea --- Gold discoveries --- Gold extraction (Mining) --- Gold fields --- Gold mining --- Gold rush --- Gold rushes --- Goldfields --- Goldmining --- Goldrush --- Goldrushes --- Sites, Gold mining --- Mines and mineral resources --- Copper industry and trade --- OTML --- Extractive industries --- Extractive industry --- Metal industries --- Mines and mining --- Mining --- Mining industry and finance --- advocacy groups. --- anthropology. --- big business. --- comparative research. --- conservation. --- copper mine. --- corporate power. --- corporations. --- environmental disaster. --- environmental impacts. --- gold mine. --- historical. --- indigenous people. --- industry. --- lawyers. --- local rivers. --- natural resource extraction industry. --- natural resources. --- nature. --- nongovernmental organizations. --- ok tedi. --- papua new guinea. --- political movements. --- political. --- politics. --- poor people. --- power and wealth. --- powerful institutions. --- rain forests. --- science. --- social responsibility. --- sustainability. --- Industries minières

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