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SUMMARY:Pigs\, Politics and Petroleum: Development\, disruptive politics a
 nd disjunctures in Papua New Guinea's extractive sector - Professor Glenn 
 Banks\, School of People\, Environment and Planning\, Massey University\, 
 New Zealand
DTSTART:20180827T130000Z
DTEND:20180827T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. Emma Mawdsley
DESCRIPTION:Debates around the development contribution of extractive indu
 stries simply won't go away. Over three decades of research and experience
  with 'resource curses'\, governance and institutional effects\, and hig
 hly divergent local outcomes have produced little consensus except that 
 the effects of resource extraction are complex and highly contingent. In
 creasingly there is a focus on the forms of politics and governance that 
 are needed to drive the extractive sector to meet the new imperatives of
  climate change\, rights-based development with dignity\, and resource con
 servation (in particular water and biodiversity resources). Are there form
 s of reformist politics and governance options that can offer prospects
  of more 'dignified' kinds of resource extraction that resonate with the
  politics of practical policy as well as with key theoretical debates on 
 the politics of development? Or are we consigned to the sorts of politi
 cs that continue to lead to the most socially\, economically and environm
 entally impoverishing forms of extraction?\n\nThis presentation will use t
 he example of Papua New Guinea to explore these issues. Three years into 
 PNG's fourth 'resources boom'\, built on the US$20bn Exxon-led PNG LNG pr
 oject\, the ground has shifted\, both metaphorically and literally. The ma
 gnitude 6.7 earthquake in early 2018 and its effects on the gas project an
 d other resource projects in the PNG highlands has amplified public disco
 urse and debate around the extractives sector\, and specifically its retur
 ns to and development implications for the state and local communities. Th
 ree disconcerting trends are discernible: a huge growth in the value of m
 ineral exports\, but limited – miniscule is generous – returns to the
  PNG state from these\; limited and contested developmental benefits for a
 ffected communities\; and\, tied to both of the above\, increasing conflic
 t in both the ideological and literal sense\, centred around political con
 testation at national and local levels. The apparent political capture of 
 the state by its interests in the sector\, weak institutional governance c
 apacity and increasing dissent among the populous cloud a clear vision for
  the role of the sector in PNG's development. But it is also within this f
 og of disputation that the outline of a new form of resource politics ca
 n be observed.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography
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