Undermining resistance

<p>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?<br>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.<br>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.</p>