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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465845903321

Autore

Lasslett Kristian

Titolo

State crime on the margins of empire : Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and resistance to mining / / Kristian Lasslett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Pluto Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-78371-229-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

State Crime

Disciplina

364.168099592

Soggetti

State crimes - Papua New Guinea - Bougainville Island

Bougainville Crisis, Papua New Guinea, 1988-

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

State crime and the empire of capital -- The specificities of Papua New Guinea's development -- From landowner crisis to industrial sabotage -- Eight days that shook BCL, the first mine shutdown and its aftermath -- A tale of two solutions - Counterinsurgency warfare and the Bougainville package -- The making of Civil War on Bougainville -- State crime and really existing capitalism: The lessons of Bougainville -- Afterword: Impunity, civil society and the struggle ahead in Melanesia.