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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 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.

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.

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"Does anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable new book, Stuart Kirsch shows how anthropology can--and why it should--become more engaged with the problems of the world. Engaged Anthropology draws on the author's experiences working with indigenous peoples fighting for their environment, land rights, and political sovereignty. Including both short interventions and collaborations spanning decades, it recounts interactions with lawyers and courts, nongovernmental organizations, scientific experts, and transnational corporations. This unflinchingly honest account addresses the unexamined "backstage" of engaged anthropology. Coming at a time when some question the viability of the discipline, the message of this powerful and original work is especially welcome, as it not only promotes a new way of doing anthropology, but also compellingly articulates a new rationale for why anthropology matters."--Provided by publisher.

Public anthropology --- Indigenous peoples --- Indigenous peoples --- Mineral industries

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