This article explores the implications of 'business for peace'(B4P), a new global governance
paradigm that aims to put international businesses at the frontline of peace, stability and …

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the rapid growth of Peru's extractive industries has
unleashed diverse forms of political resistance to an economic system dependent on …

During the COVID-19 emergency, people around the world are debating concepts like
physical distancing, lockdown, and sheltering in place. The ethical significance of proximity …

This article examines indigenous responses to the extractive encroachments of mining in
Atacama. It looks at how they reveal the existence of competing systems of meaning and …

In an ethnography of the organizing of an underground mine, this article critically engages
with actor–network theory's theorizing of space, particularly the risk of drifting into spatial …

This review examines the ambiguous condition of unfree labor in modern, Fordist, or
postindustrial systems of exploitation. Unfree labor is reviewed across two multidisciplinary …

By zooming in on the concept of 'local content', this article speaks to the debate on extractive
industries and development. It challenges two fundamental assumptions of the mainstream …

Going beyond a static conceptualization of the mining enclave, recent research increasingly
scrutinizes the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) schemes as a means of territorial …

This theme section brings the state back into anthropological studies of corporate social
responsibility through the lens of Norwegian energy corporations working abroad. These …

Mining sites have often been described as enclaves, but the influence of mining companies
extends far beyond their fences. I explore the planning and construction of an access road …