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Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of local communities, activists and NGOs matter on a global scale? Why are there so many different global standards in mining?
This book develops a new critical political economy approach to studying extractive accumulation, drawing on three detailed Indonesian cases to explain how participatory mechanisms continuously reshape and are reshaped by community-corporate conflict. Findings highlight feedback between local social relations, conflict, transnational activism, crises of legitimacy and global governance.
The author argues that corporate social responsibility, community development, 'gender-mainstreaming' and environmental monitoring are neither simple outcomes of corporate ethics nor mere greenwashing strategies. Rather, participation is a mechanism to undermine resistance and create social relations amenable to extractive accumulation.

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Book category Books in German Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaft

• Full title: Undermining Resistance
• Author: Lian Sinclair
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9781526197917
• ISBN: 152619791X
• ID: 50131920
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Weight: 331 g
• Date of publishing: 20. January 2026

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