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Corporate Social Responsibility, Neoliberalisation, and Mining Industry Community Engagement in Rural Australia

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ID4813797
AuthorsRobyn Mayes (0000-0002-8661-3638, Curtin University, corresponding author), Paula Mcdonald (0000-0002-3549-4691, Queensland University of Technology, corresponding author), Barbara Pini (0000-0002-8093-7017, Griffith University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume46
Issue2
Pages398-413
Publication date2014-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a45676
OpenAlexW2009544239
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited26

This paper addresses contemporary neoliberal mobilisations of community undertaken by private corporations. It does so by examining the ways in which the mining industry, empowered through the legitimising framework of corporate social responsibility, is increasingly and profoundly involved in shaping the meaning, practice, and experience of 'local community'. We draw on a substantial Australian case study, consisting of interviews and document analysis, as a means to examine 'community-engagement' practices undertaken by BHP Billiton's Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation in the Shire of Ravensthorpe in rural Australia. This engagement, we argue, as a process of deepening neoliberalisation simultaneously defines and transforms local community according to the logic of global capital. As such, this study has implications for critical understandings of the intersections among corporate social responsibility, neoliberalisation, community, and capital

Community development · Community engagement · Corporate social responsibility · Economic growth · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Public relations · Rural community · Shire · Social capital · Social responsibility · Sociology · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Public Administration · Tailings Management and Properties

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