Ironies of Organization: Landowners, Land Registration, and Papua New Guinea's Mining and Petroleum Industry

The Resource Curse - What Have We Learned from Two Decades of Intensive Research: Introduction to the Special Issue

“…Some recent papers have shown that mineral-rich and mineral-poor regions within sovereign countries also follow different development trajectories (and for reasons similar to the ones explaining cross-country differences; for example, see Papyrakis & Gerlagh, 2007 and other social scientists, has probed into the development impacts of the extractive industries at the micro/community level (see Banks, 2007Banks, , 2009Gilberthorpe, 2013Gilberthorpe, , 2014Golub, 2007;Bainton, 2008;Hilson, 2006). This micro resource curse literature, as a result of the scholarly prevalence by non-economists, has examined the resource curse from a different angle; that is, with a closer focus on the impacts of the extractive industry on individual agency and community relationships.…”

Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics: Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea

“…A local innovation to try to achieve parts of the above is the 'development forum', first used in the negotiations for the Porgera gold mine in 1988-89 (Golub 2007;Filer 2008). Today, the Mining Act 1992 lays out the specifications of a forum and sets out a list of parties the mining minister should consider inviting.…”

“…Barrick is committed to implementing the Position Statement globally. (BGC 2013: 29) But though successive sustainability reports show that Barrick considers communities in Chile, Australia and North America to be indigenous, it does not include the Ipili people of Porgera, even though land issues are handled through Ipili agents empowered under a section of PNG's Land Act that deals with customary land (Golub 2007). …”

“…3 Many people have exploited a combination of customary ties and local Ipili people's notions of incorporation that make it possible for people from outside the valley to come and live there (Golub 2007). In-migration was further encouraged as Ipili people strategically allowed 'outsiders' to come and reside in the valley in order to increase the number of their allies and supporters for greater security and to expand the network of economic possibilities that they might exploit.…”

Migrants, Labourers and Landowners at the Lihir Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea

“…The pre-mining population has increased from roughly 2,500 people recorded in 1957 (Meggitt 1957: 33), to approximately 10,000 in 1990 (Filer 1999: 3) and an estimated 45,000 in 2012 (BGC 2012). 3 Many people have exploited a combination of customary ties and local Ipili people's notions of incorporation that make it possible for people from outside the valley to come and live there (Golub 2007). In-migration was further encouraged as Ipili people strategically allowed 'outsiders' to come and reside in the valley in order to increase the number of their allies and supporters for greater security and to expand the network of economic possibilities that they might exploit.…”