Indigenous Peoples and Mining - Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh

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Résumé :
Indigenous peoples have occupied their territories for thousands of years, territories that are increasingly being mined by an industry applying the most modern extractive, marketing, and transport technologies on a scale that can be difficult to comprehend. Mining reshapes landscapes, literally moving mountains and diverting rivers...

Biographie:
Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh is Professor of Politics and Public Policy in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Brisbane. After holding teaching and research positions at the University of Papua New Guinea and the Australian National University, he joined Griffith University in 1988. His research focuses on Indigenous governance and leadership, especially as it relates to large-scale resource development on Indigenous lands. For over 30 years he has acted as a negotiator and advisor for Indigenous communities and organizations in Australia, Canada, Chile, and Papua New Guinea. His roles have included Project Manager, Kimberley LNG Precinct Indigenous Impacts Assessment (2009 - 2013)...

Sommaire:
the Indigenous owners of these landscapes often believe them to have been originally shaped by ancestor beings who still reside at mining locations.

This book seeks to understand the political, social, economic, and cultural dynamic that is created by the relentless expansion of mining into Indigenous territories. Contributing to such an understanding involves a task of global significance: Indigenous peoples embody a large part of the world's linguistic and cultural diversity...