Journal article
Beyond victimisation: Gendered legacies of mining, participation, and resistance
The Extractive Industries and Society, Vol.8(3), Article 100870
2021
Abstract
Mining developments, corporate-community conflict, and participatory community development programs can have diverse gendered impacts on people affected by mining. Thus, changing gendered relations are amongst the social, economic, and political legacies of mining. Despite growing literature on the gendered impacts of mining, little explains how and why particular developments produce divergent legacies. This paper builds on feminist understandings of primitive accumulation and social reproduction theory to understand the rapid economic, social and political change that reconfigures gendered relations between and within groups of men and women. Drawing on research across three case studies in Indonesia, I argue that while mining developments can disproportionately disadvantage women, resistance work and participation in corporate social responsibility programs (CSR) may be empowering. This paper thus moves beyond the ‘women-as-victims’ approach to uncover the social, economic, and political foundations of inequality that may be disrupted or reinforced by mining, participation and resistance. The implications of this for mining governance policy, CSR and NGOs are that gendered legacies of mining depend on how resistance or participation create opportunities to overcome structural inequalities exacerbated by mining.
Details
- Title
- Beyond victimisation: Gendered legacies of mining, participation, and resistance
- Authors/Creators
- L. Sinclair (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- The Extractive Industries and Society, Vol.8(3), Article 100870
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Identifiers
- 991005540144507891
- Copyright
- © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Asia Research Centre
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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