Journal article
Human flourishing and extractive-led development: “The mine will give me whatever I like"
The Extractive Industries and Society, Vol.6(2), pp.573-583
2019
Abstract
The gap between the rhetoric and reality of extractive-led development (ELD) looms large over the dominant but flawed discourse of mining for development. Seeking to better understand outcomes from ELD we apply a human flourishing perspective, exploring yet-to-be-experienced impacts in a potentially inflammatory political process. This action research is designed to assist communities respond to the proposed, but yet to be approved Wafi-Golpu project in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. The research exchange documents with a clear voice community concerns about: a lack of information; anxiety about intentional and immanent impacts; fundamentally different conceptualisations of what human flourishing is; a lack of development, services and facilities; unrealistic expectations; and, most powerfully, an undermining of individual and collective agency. We find that despite forty years of waiting for mining, the consent process to date is unjust, flawed and inadequate, de-legitimising any future claims to informed consent. While the immediate practical, on-ground outcomes of this action-research for the communities has been positive, longer term outcomes are yet to be determined. The concept of human flourishing offers a useful and insightful perspective that can inform communities, governments, proponents and researchers alike about the potential impacts of ELD on human well-being.
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- Title
- Human flourishing and extractive-led development: “The mine will give me whatever I like"
- Authors/Creators
- C. Roche (Author/Creator)N. Walim (Author/Creator)H. Sindana (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- The Extractive Industries and Society, Vol.6(2), pp.573-583
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Identifiers
- 991005540301507891
- Copyright
- © 2019 Elsevier Ltd.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.146 Anthropology
- 6.146.1728 Artisanal Mining
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