
Undermining resistance
The governance of participation by multinational mining corporations
Lian Sinclair(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 20. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-5261-9791-7 (ISBN)
Description
Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of local communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? Why are there so many different global standards in mining?
This book develops a new critical political economy approach to studying extractive accumulation, drawing on three detailed Indonesian cases to explain how participatory mechanisms continuously reshape and are reshaped by community-corporate conflict. Findings highlight feedback between local social relations, conflict, transnational activism, crises of legitimacy and global governance.
The author argues that corporate social responsibility, community development, 'gender-mainstreaming' and environmental monitoring are neither simple outcomes of corporate ethics nor mere greenwashing strategies. Rather, participation is a mechanism to undermine resistance and create social relations amenable to extractive accumulation.
More details
Language
English
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-9791-7 (9781526197917)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Lian Sinclair is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney and Honorary Research Fellow, Indo-Pacific Research Centre, at Murdoch University