@article{1358926,
      recid = {1358926},
      author = {Allen, Matthew G.,},
      title = {Resource Extraction and Contentious States : Mining and  the Politics of Scale in the Pacific Islands /},
      pages = {1 online resource (XIII, 148 pages 4 illustrations) :},
      abstract = {This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of  the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia  Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries  engender contentious social, political and economic  questions. Addressing the strong association in Melanesia  between extractive resource industries and a spectrum of  violence ranging from interpersonal to collective forms, it  questions whether islands are particularly potent spaces  for the contentious politics that attend enclave economies.  The book brings island studies literature into a closer  conversation with political and economic geography,  demonstrating that islands provide rich spaces for the  investigation of the socio-spatial relations at the heart  of human geography's theoretical cannon. The book also has  a real-world policy edge, as the sustained and growing  dominance of extractive industries, in concert with the  highly contentious politics that they engender, places them  at the centre of efforts to understand state formation,  political reordering and the on-going negotiation of  political settlements of various types throughout  post-colonial Melanesia. It considers how extractive  resource industries can shape processes of state formation,  shedding new light on Melanesia's resource curse.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1358926},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8120-0},
}