Nicholas Bainton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 199286 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicholas Bainton |
| PRENOMES | Nicholas |
| SOBRENOME | Bainton |
| ASSINATURA | BAINTON N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7571-3679 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 204 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Extending terrestrial mining law to the seabed
The commercial determinants of social impact assessment in the global mining industry
Social impact assessment (SIA) is the most widely applied method for identifying and managing the social effects of mining. Yet, SIA almost always occurs under commercial conditions that constrain its potential to serve the public interest. This paper examines the company-commissioned, consultant-led model that dominates SIA practice in the global mining industry. Drawing on document analysis and interviews with practitioners and regulators, we i…
Compound exposure
Multidimensional poverty and small-scale mining in the shadow of large-scale mines in Papua New Guinea
Land relations, resource extraction and displacement effects in island Papua New Guinea
We examine the relationship between dispossession, customary land relations, and involuntary displacement. Attention to customary land relations is the key to understanding how some households experience the extremities of extractive capitalism. By decoupling involuntary displacement from the acquisition of land, it is possible to surface indirect or secondary effects that are otherwise illegible. We conclude that 'messy' land relations and dispu…
The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects
The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects
Standing on the broken ground of resource extraction settings, the state is sometimes like a chimera: its appearance and intentions are misleading and, for some actors, it is unknowable and incomprehensible. It may be easily mistaken for someone or something else, like a mining company, for example
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation
Embedding gender-responsive approaches in impact assessment and management
This paper introduces the special issue on gender in impact assessment and management. We discuss the absence of gender-responsive approaches in conventional impact assessment practice and management, and associated implications for meaningfully addressing gender relations and the rights of women and LGBTQI+ people. We also introduce the special issue, which sheds light on gaps in impact assessment but also demonstrates that practical approaches …
An Absent Presence
753272, in a joint appointment between the University of St Andrews in Scotland and UQ. The authors also express their gratitude to the University of St Andrews, whose financial support in the form of a grant from the Institutional Open Access Fund meant that they could make this volume available in this form
Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific
In October 2018, as Papua New Guinea (PNG) prepared to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Port Moresby, journalists reported on stark disparities that were drawing the ire of the nation. News headlines announced that the national government had just splurged on 40 Maseratis for APEC leaders Photos showed cargo planes unloading carefully sheathed luxury cars, each one valued at more than 100 times PNG's per capita gross d…
Menacing the Mine
The Papua New Guinea Electrification Partnership
The energy‐extractives nexus and the just transition
The concept of a ‘just transition’ to a low‐carbon economy is firmly embedded in mainstream global discourses about mitigating climate change. Drawing on Karl Polanyi's political economy elaborated in The Great Transformation , we interrogate the idea of a just transition and place it within its historical context. We address a major contradiction at the core of global energy transition debates: the rapid shift to low‐carbon energy‐systems will r…
Invisibility and the extractive-pandemic nexus
Mining and Indigenous Peoples
Anthropologists have been studying the relationship between mining and the local forms of community that it has created or impacted since at least the 1930s. While the focus of these inquiries has moved with the times, reflecting different political, theoretical, and methodological priorities, much of this work has concentrated on local manifestations of the so-called resource curse or the paradox of plenty. Anthropologists are not the only socia…
Adding and sustaining benefits
A critical review of the social aspects of mine closure
Mining, mobility and sustainable development
Land and access
In this paper we propose that we can best make sense of mining‐induced in‐migration in Melanesia through the dual frame of “land” and “access”, which can both be seen as a type of “capital” or “asset” in the way that Anthony Bebbington used these terms in his well‐known “capitals and capabilities” framework for analysing rural livelihoods. The concept of land provides a useful point of entry for understanding the relationship between mining, migr…
Zones of entanglement
State Crime on the Margins of Empire
Unequal Lives
Anthropology in the Mining Industry
The energy‐extractives nexus and the just transition
The concept of a ‘just transition’ to a low‐carbon economy is firmly embedded in mainstream global discourses about mitigating climate change. Drawing on Karl Polanyi's political economy elaborated in The Great Transformation , we interrogate the idea of a just transition and place it within its historical context. We address a major contradiction at the core of global energy transition debates: the rapid shift to low‐carbon energy‐systems will r…
The Lihir Destiny
The people of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea have long held visions of a prosperous new future, often referred to by local leaders as the 'Lihir Destiny'. When large-scale gold mining activities commenced on the main island of Lihir in 1995, many hoped that this new world had finally arrived. The Lihir Destiny provides a nuanced account of the social structural and
Gendering the Field
Zones of entanglement
Stepping Stones Across the Lihir Islands
Large-scale resource extraction projects often create obstacles for the protection, maintenance, and inheritance of indigenous cultural heritage. In this article we detail some of the challenges and opportunities arising from our collaborative partnership with the community of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea, which is seeking to establish, inform, and resource a formal cultural heritage management program in the context of a large-scale gol…
The End of the Beginning? Mining, sacred geographies, memory and performance in Lihir
This article explores the critical ways in which the relationship between landscape and memory is mediated by performance—through song, dance, ritual and the movements of the living and the dead. In the Lihir group of islands, in Papua New Guinea, these acts of memorialisation are rehearsed on a remarkable stage, an involuted cosmography or sacred geography in which the cosmological point of origin, the sacred rock of Ailaya, is also the ultimate…
Land relations, resource extraction and displacement effects in island Papua New Guinea
We examine the relationship between dispossession, customary land relations, and involuntary displacement. Attention to customary land relations is the key to understanding how some households experience the extremities of extractive capitalism. By decoupling involuntary displacement from the acquisition of land, it is possible to surface indirect or secondary effects that are otherwise illegible. We conclude that 'messy' land relations and dispu…
Men of Kastom and the Customs of Men
The changing nature of Lihirian masculinity in the context of large‐scale resource development is characterised by ingenuity, disjuncture and struggles for legitimacy. In this paper, I consider the various ways Lihirian masculinity is challenged and shaped by exogenous influences, how Lihirians appropriate particular aspects of modernity for their own purposes, and the ways in which certain Lihirian men have attempted to redefine masculine ideals…
The Genesis and the Escalation of Desire and Antipathy in the Lihir Islands, Papua New Guinea
When large-scale resource extraction began on the main island of the Lihir Group in 1995, Lihirians anticipated that their long-held dreams of economic advancement and moral equivalence with Europeans would finally materialise. Lihirians have placed huge expectations upon this mining project, few of which have been realised. Many of their desires surfaced in earlier politico-religious movements during the colonial period. The beliefs and expectat…
Mining and Indigenous Peoples
Anthropologists have been studying the relationship between mining and the local forms of community that it has created or impacted since at least the 1930s. While the focus of these inquiries has moved with the times, reflecting different political, theoretical, and methodological priorities, much of this work has concentrated on local manifestations of the so-called resource curse or the paradox of plenty. Anthropologists are not the only socia…
Land and access
In this paper we propose that we can best make sense of mining‐induced in‐migration in Melanesia through the dual frame of “land” and “access”, which can both be seen as a type of “capital” or “asset” in the way that Anthony Bebbington used these terms in his well‐known “capitals and capabilities” framework for analysing rural livelihoods. The concept of land provides a useful point of entry for understanding the relationship between mining, migr…
Mining, mobility and sustainable development
Multidimensional poverty and small-scale mining in the shadow of large-scale mines in Papua New Guinea
Adding and sustaining benefits
Compound exposure
The Papua New Guinea Electrification Partnership
Invisibility and the extractive-pandemic nexus
Coming Out of the Stone
On the morning of 10 January 2005, a group of people boarded an open dinghy at Namatanai, located about halfway down the east coast of mainland New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. On board were the young brothers Tony and Paul Wol, musicians of the newly formed band Twinhox of Kavieng. Buoyant with the recent recording of their debut album Sorpendeng in the nation's capital, Port Moresby, the brothers had been visiting their mother's relatives in Ne…
Men of Kastom and the Customs of Men
The changing nature of Lihirian masculinity in the context of large‐scale resource development is characterised by ingenuity, disjuncture and struggles for legitimacy. In this paper, I consider the various ways Lihirian masculinity is challenged and shaped by exogenous influences, how Lihirians appropriate particular aspects of modernity for their own purposes, and the ways in which certain Lihirian men have attempted to redefine masculine ideals…
The Genesis and the Escalation of Desire and Antipathy in the Lihir Islands, Papua New Guinea
When large-scale resource extraction began on the main island of the Lihir Group in 1995, Lihirians anticipated that their long-held dreams of economic advancement and moral equivalence with Europeans would finally materialise. Lihirians have placed huge expectations upon this mining project, few of which have been realised. Many of their desires surfaced in earlier politico-religious movements during the colonial period. The beliefs and expectat…
Keeping the Network out of view
This paper examines the ‘property effects’ surrounding competition over access to mining benefits in Papua New Guinea. Under conditions of rapid social change engendered by large scale resource extraction, Lihirian islanders have increasingly recalibrated their social networks, manifest through shifting notions of sociality and obligation, and ownership strategies that seek to limit other people's claims to wealth. These local changes are paralle…
The Lihir Destiny
The people of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea have long held visions of a prosperous new future, often referred to by local leaders as the 'Lihir Destiny'. When large-scale gold mining activities commenced on the main island of Lihir in 1995, many hoped that this new world had finally arrived. The Lihir Destiny provides a nuanced account of the social structural and
Stepping Stones Across the Lihir Islands
Large-scale resource extraction projects often create obstacles for the protection, maintenance, and inheritance of indigenous cultural heritage. In this article we detail some of the challenges and opportunities arising from our collaborative partnership with the community of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea, which is seeking to establish, inform, and resource a formal cultural heritage management program in the context of a large-scale gol…
Gendering the Field
The End of the Beginning? Mining, sacred geographies, memory and performance in Lihir
This article explores the critical ways in which the relationship between landscape and memory is mediated by performance—through song, dance, ritual and the movements of the living and the dead. In the Lihir group of islands, in Papua New Guinea, these acts of memorialisation are rehearsed on a remarkable stage, an involuted cosmography or sacred geography in which the cosmological point of origin, the sacred rock of Ailaya, is also the ultimate…
Coming Out of the Stone
On the morning of 10 January 2005, a group of people boarded an open dinghy at Namatanai, located about halfway down the east coast of mainland New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. On board were the young brothers Tony and Paul Wol, musicians of the newly formed band Twinhox of Kavieng. Buoyant with the recent recording of their debut album Sorpendeng in the nation's capital, Port Moresby, the brothers had been visiting their mother's relatives in Ne…
A critical review of the social aspects of mine closure
Mining, mobility and sustainable development
Land and access
In this paper we propose that we can best make sense of mining‐induced in‐migration in Melanesia through the dual frame of “land” and “access”, which can both be seen as a type of “capital” or “asset” in the way that Anthony Bebbington used these terms in his well‐known “capitals and capabilities” framework for analysing rural livelihoods. The concept of land provides a useful point of entry for understanding the relationship between mining, migr…
Zones of entanglement
Adding and sustaining benefits
Invisibility and the extractive-pandemic nexus
Mining and Indigenous Peoples
Anthropologists have been studying the relationship between mining and the local forms of community that it has created or impacted since at least the 1930s. While the focus of these inquiries has moved with the times, reflecting different political, theoretical, and methodological priorities, much of this work has concentrated on local manifestations of the so-called resource curse or the paradox of plenty. Anthropologists are not the only socia…
The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects
The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects
Standing on the broken ground of resource extraction settings, the state is sometimes like a chimera: its appearance and intentions are misleading and, for some actors, it is unknowable and incomprehensible. It may be easily mistaken for someone or something else, like a mining company, for example
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of…
Unequal Lives
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation
Embedding gender-responsive approaches in impact assessment and management
This paper introduces the special issue on gender in impact assessment and management. We discuss the absence of gender-responsive approaches in conventional impact assessment practice and management, and associated implications for meaningfully addressing gender relations and the rights of women and LGBTQI+ people. We also introduce the special issue, which sheds light on gaps in impact assessment but also demonstrates that practical approaches …
An Absent Presence
753272, in a joint appointment between the University of St Andrews in Scotland and UQ. The authors also express their gratitude to the University of St Andrews, whose financial support in the form of a grant from the Institutional Open Access Fund meant that they could make this volume available in this form
Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific
In October 2018, as Papua New Guinea (PNG) prepared to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Port Moresby, journalists reported on stark disparities that were drawing the ire of the nation. News headlines announced that the national government had just splurged on 40 Maseratis for APEC leaders Photos showed cargo planes unloading carefully sheathed luxury cars, each one valued at more than 100 times PNG's per capita gross d…
Menacing the Mine
The Papua New Guinea Electrification Partnership
The energy‐extractives nexus and the just transition
The concept of a ‘just transition’ to a low‐carbon economy is firmly embedded in mainstream global discourses about mitigating climate change. Drawing on Karl Polanyi's political economy elaborated in The Great Transformation , we interrogate the idea of a just transition and place it within its historical context. We address a major contradiction at the core of global energy transition debates: the rapid shift to low‐carbon energy‐systems will r…
Mining and Resource Management (19 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Geography (15 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · Archaeology (11 obras) · New guinea (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (9 obras)