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Mining Capitalism
Author | : Stuart Kirsch |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2014-06-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520281707 |
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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.
Planetary Mine
Author | : Martin Arboleda |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-01-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781788732963 |
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A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industries Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. Through an exploration of the ways in which mines in the Atacama Desert of Chile—the driest in the world—have become intermingled with an expanding constellation of megacities, ports, banks, and factories across East Asia, the book rethinks uneven geographical development in the era of supply chain capitalism. Arguing that extraction entails much more than the mere spatiality of mine shafts and pits, Planetary Mine points towards the expanding webs of infrastructure, of labor, of finance, and of struggle, that drive resource-based industries in the twenty-first century.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Author | : Shoshana Zuboff |
Publsiher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781610395700 |
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The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.
Inside Mining Capitalism
Author | : Benjamin Rubbers,Thomas Mcnamara,James Musonda,Kristien Geenen,Emma Lochery |
Publsiher | : James Currey |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1847012868 |
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A groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continent.
Refracted Economies
Author | : Rebecca Jane Hall |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Diamond mines and mining |
ISBN | : 9781487540845 |
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Refracted Economies examines the gendered impact of the diamond industry in the Canadian Northwest Territories.
Mediocracy
Author | : Alain Deneault |
Publsiher | : Between the Lines |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781771133449 |
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There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line meals without knowing how to cook at home, give customers instructions over the phone that they themselves don’t understand, or sell books and newspapers that they never read. Canadian intellectual juggernaut Alain Deneault has taken on all kinds of evildoers: mining companies, tax-dodgers, and corporate criminals. Now he takes on the most menacing threat of all: the mediocre.
Planetary Mine
Author | : Martín Arboleda |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2020-01-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781788732970 |
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Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. Through an exploration of the ways in which mines in the Atacama Desert of Chile-the driest in the world-have become intermingled with an expanding constellation of megacities, ports, banks, and factories across East Asia, the book rethinks uneven geographical development in the era of supply chain capitalism. Arguing that extraction entails much more than the mere spatiality of mine shafts and pits, Planetary Mine points towards the expanding webs of infrastructure, of labor, of finance, and of struggle, that drive resource-based industries in the twenty-first century.
Mining Capitalism
Author | : Stuart Kirsch |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2014-06-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520957596 |
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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.