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Record Nr.

UNINA9910252725603321

Autore

Cochrane Glynn

Titolo

Anthropology in the Mining Industry : Community Relations after Bougainville's Civil War / / by Glynn Cochrane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-50310-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 243 p.)

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Ethnology

Environmental sociology

Social structure

Equality

Social Anthropology

Environmental Sociology

Social Structure, Social Inequality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Bougainville lessons for Rio Tinto.-3. Panama and indigenous peoples -- 4. Miners join the UN Global Compact -- 5. Headquarters inception -- 6. A systematic approach.-7. Artisanal mining and closure -- 8. Data and forms of CSR -- 9. Resettlement -- 10. Results -- 11. Appendices.

Sommario/riassunto

This book outlines how Rio Tinto—one of the world’s largest miners— redesigned and rebuilt relationships with communities after the rejection of the company during Bougainville’s Civil War. Glynn Cochrane recalls how he and colleagues utilized their training as social anthropologists to help the company to earn an industry leadership reputation and competitive business advantage by establishing the case for long-term, on the ground, smoke-in-the-eyes interaction with people in local communities around the world, despite the appeal of maximal efficiency techniques and quicker, easier answers. Instead of using ready-made, formulaic toolkits, Rio Tinto relied on community practitioners to try to accommodate local preferences and cultural



differences. This volume provides a step-by-step account of how mining companies can use social anthropological and ethnographic insights to design ways of working with local communities, especially in times of upheaval. .