Abstract
In this concluding chapter, we return to the question posed in the
introduction—the question of how to explain the similarities and
differences in the relationship between large-scale mines and local-level
politics in New Caledonia (NC) and Papua New Guinea (PNG), or
in different parts of these two countries. The subtitle of this book (and
the title of this chapter) could be read as a sign of our belief that the
relationship between large-scale mines and local-level politics is one whose
form and content mainly varies between countries or jurisdictions, largely
as a result of differences in their political history and the current legal and
policy frameworks in which the relationship is embedded. However, while
there clearly are some points to be made on this score, the contributions
to this volume also show that the relationship varies between projects and
places as much as it does between countries, so there is no reason to assign
a special kind of power to what we described (in Chapter 1) as the ‘state
corner’ in our rectangular model of stakeholder relationships. Instead, we
may conceive of the space ‘between’ NC and PNG as one that contains
a number of different relationships between large-scale mines and locallevel politics whose variation can partly be understood in terms of the
‘balance of power’ between the four corners in that model, but partly also
in terms of other dimensions of difference.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea |
Editors | Colin Filer, Pierre-Yves Le Meur |
Place of Publication | Canberra |
Publisher | ANU Press |
Pages | 415-434 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781760461492 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |