Resource Extraction and Contentious States Mining and the Politics o
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
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Matthew G. Allen
Resource Extraction and Contentious States
Matthew G. Allen
Resource Extraction and Contentious States Mining and the Politics of Scale in the Pacific Islands
Matthew G. Allen University of the South Pacific Suva, Fiji
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Acknowledgements
This research would not have been possible without the assistance of many people and organisations. I am grateful to the Australian Research Council for providing funding under a three-year research fellowship (DE140100206) and to the Australian National University for providing an institutional home for the project. I am also grateful to the governments of Papua New Guinea, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and Solomon Islands for permitting me to undertake field research in their respective jurisdictions. In the case of Solomons, further permissions were granted by the provincial governments of Guadalcanal, Isabel, Choiseul and Renbel, and by the Isabel Council of Chiefs. I extend my gratitude to the following people for assisting me with my field research on Bougainville: Felicity Rutana, James Rutana Jr., James Rutana Sr., Albert and Denise Nukuitu, Normal Tola, Patrick Itta, Michael Deemax, Chris Dendai, Simon Jaintong, Ezekiel Burain, Anthony Regan, Paul Kibori, and the staff at the Arawa Women’s Training Centre. Above all I wo
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