Mining Capitalism

Author : Stuart Kirsch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520281707

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Mining Capitalism by Stuart Kirsch Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Arboleda
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788732963

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Planetary Mine by Martin Arboleda Pdf

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.

Author : Martín Arboleda
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788732970

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Planetary Mine by Martín Arboleda Pdf

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.

Author : Shoshana Zuboff
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610395700

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Pdf

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.

Author : Stuart Kirsch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520957596

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Mining Capitalism by Stuart Kirsch Pdf

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.

Author : Benjamin Rubbers,Thomas Mcnamara,James Musonda,Kristien Geenen,Emma Lochery
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1847012868

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Inside Mining Capitalism by Benjamin Rubbers,Thomas Mcnamara,James Musonda,Kristien Geenen,Emma Lochery Pdf

A groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continent.

Author : Rebecca Jane Hall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Diamond mines and mining
ISBN : 9781487540845

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Refracted Economies by Rebecca Jane Hall Pdf

Refracted Economies examines the gendered impact of the diamond industry in the Canadian Northwest Territories.

Author : Alain Deneault
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781771133449

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Mediocracy by Alain Deneault Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Neuschatz
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038068420

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The Golden Sword by Michael Neuschatz Pdf

Author : Selim Gool
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Black people
ISBN : UOM:39015001772816

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Mining Capitalism and Black Labour in the Early Industrial Period in South Africa by Selim Gool Pdf

Author : Stuart Kirsch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520297944

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Engaged Anthropology by Stuart Kirsch Pdf

Does anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable 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.

Author : Antony Loewenstein
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784781170

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Disaster Capitalism by Antony Loewenstein Pdf

Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining. What emerges through Loewenstein's reporting is a dark history of multinational corporations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world's most valuable commodity.

Author : Jeannette Graulau
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Capital gains
ISBN : 9780300218220

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The Underground Wealth of Nations by Jeannette Graulau Pdf

Silver mining was a capitalist business long before the supposed origin of modern capitalism Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large-scale businesses that demanded large investments and steady cash flow, achieved by spreading that risk through fungible shares and creating legal structures to protect entrepreneurs from financial disaster. Jeannette Graulau argues that mining preceded agriculture as the first true capitalist enterprise of the modern world.

Author : Todd Gordon,Jeffery R. Webber
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552668450

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Blood of Extraction by Todd Gordon,Jeffery R. Webber Pdf

Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based multinational corporations, backed by the Canadian state, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades at the expense of Latin American people and the environment. Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of opposition movements, from Mexico to Argentina, and the authors illustrate the strategies used by the Canadian state to silence this resistance and advance corporate interests.

Author : Susan Koshy,Lisa Marie Cacho,Jodi A. Byrd,Brian Jordan Jefferson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023371

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Colonial Racial Capitalism by Susan Koshy,Lisa Marie Cacho,Jodi A. Byrd,Brian Jordan Jefferson Pdf

The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development of colonized lands across the globe. They demonstrate the co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from the conquest of the New World through industrial capitalism to contemporary financial capitalism. Among other topics, the essays explore the historical suturing of Blackness and Black people to debt, the violence of uranium mining on Indigenous lands in Canada and the Belgian Congo, how municipal property assessment and waste management software encodes and produces racial difference, how Puerto Rican police crackdowns on protestors in 2010 and 2011 drew on decades of policing racially and economically marginalized people, and how historic sites in Los Angeles County narrate the Mexican-American War in ways that occlude the war’s imperialist groundings. The volume’s analytic of colonial racial capitalism opens new frameworks for understanding the persistence of violence, precarity, and inequality in modern society. Contributors. Joanne Barker, Jodi A. Byrd, Lisa Marie Cacho, Michael Dawson, Iyko Day, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alyosha Goldstein, Cheryl I. Harris, Kimberly Kay Hoang, Brian Jordan Jefferson, Susan Koshy, Marisol LeBrón, Jodi Melamed, Laura Pulido