Oral Presentation Session

Reviewed by: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Primary Theme: Resilience

Secondary Theme: Inequality

(5-0375) Extraction and the Unexpected: Adaptation and Resilience in Response to Resource Development and Extractive Industry

There is now a large body of literature on extractive industries such as mining and petroleum, their impact on local people, and local contestation and resistance to their activities. Less studied, however, are the large-scale social changes which accompany resource extraction but which are not directly and consciously caused by it. Also understudied are how the players in extractive encounters deal with sudden unexpected changes such as natural disasters, rapid shifts in global markets, and other seemingly random events. These papers address the indirect and unanticipated changes encountered by actors in extractive encounters. We consider extraction broadly to include a wide variety of social processes and extractive encounters.

Presenter(s)

• Michael Main

  PhD candidate
  The Australian National University

• Shaun Gessler

  Australian National University

• Daniel Tubb

  Assistant Professor
  University of New Brunswick Fredericton

Discussant(s)

• Melissa Baird

  Stanford University

Organizer(s)

• Alex Golub

  University of Hawaii

Chair(s)

• Alex Golub

  University of Hawaii

Presenter(s)

• Elisabeth Moolenaar

  Colorado School of Mines

• Nikkie Wiegink

  Utrecht University

Discussant(s)

• Elizabeth Ferry

  Brandeis University

Presentations:

• 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

  Fighting over nothing: Inter-clan conflict and Resource Extraction in Papua New Guinea’s Hela Province
  Michael Allan Main – The Australian National University
• 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

  When the River Runs Dry: 
Mining through El Niño at the Ramu Nickel Project, Papua New Guinea
  Shaun Gessler – Australian National University
• 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

  The Oil Fields of Colombia: Oil palm plantations, oil refineries, and the unexpected agrarian transformation of the Middle Magdalena
  Daniel G L Tubb – University of New Brunswick Fredericton
• 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

  From Grain Republic to Banana Republic: ExtrACTION, Justice, and Environmental Values in the Groningen Gas Field
  Elisabeth Nicole Moolenaar – Colorado School of Mines
• 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

  The creation of a lessons-learned place: Legitimizing involuntary resettlement and extractive projects in Mozambique
  Nikkie Wiegink – Utrecht University
• 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

  Discussion
  Elizabeth E. Ferry – Brandeis University
• 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

  Discussion
  Melissa F. Baird – Stanford University