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Mining Capitalism
Stuart Kirsch
其他書名
The Relationship Between Corporations and Their Critics
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2014-06-07
主題
Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
Business & Economics / Labor / General
Business & Economics / Economics / General
Business & Economics / Industries / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Archaeology
Social Science / Sociology / General
Technology & Engineering / Mining
ISBN
0520281713
9780520281714
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=A6owDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 and the international network of indigenous peoples, advocacy groups, and lawyers that sought to protect local rivers and rain forests. Along the way, he analyzes how corporations promote their interests by manipulating science and invoking the discourses of sustainability and social responsibility. Based on two decades of anthropological research, this book is comparative in scope, showing readers how similar dynamics operate in other industries around the world.