Supporters and detractors of mining both recognise the rapid economic, social and political change that mining brings can completely transform societies, which is certainly so in Indonesia, where the research for my new book Undermining Resistance: The governance of participation by [...]
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In August 2017 I travelled to Dayuma, a small town on the Ecuadorian oil frontier. I was conducting research for my recent book on fantastical materialism and post-neoliberal state utopias, which was the focus of my previous post on literary techniques for the critique of political economy. But [...]
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Australia has until recently been somewhat insulated from the turbulence in the global political economy. In large measure, this can be attributed to the buoyant international demand for Australian iron ore, coal and gas, but this situation is being severely challenged. Reining in the [...]
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