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dc.contributor.authorBrueckner, Martin
dc.contributor.authorDurey, Angela
dc.contributor.authorMayes, Robyn
dc.contributor.authorPforr, Christof
dc.contributor.editorBrueckner, Martin
dc.contributor.editorDurey, Angela
dc.contributor.editorMayes, Robyn
dc.contributor.editorPforr, Christof
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T15:00:40Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T15:00:40Z
dc.date.created2014-05-11T20:00:22Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationBrueckner, M. and Durey, A. and Mayes, R. and Pforr, C. 2014. Confronting the 'resource curse or cure' binary, in Brueckner, M. and Durey, A. and Mayes, R. and Pforr, C. (ed), Resource curse or cure?: On the sustainability of development in Western Australia, pp. 3-23. Heidelberg: Springer.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42581
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-642-53873-5_1
dc.description.abstract

The use of the curse or cure dichotomy to frame a discussion around the impacts of mining is an oversimplification, not least in the emphasis on one or the other (as opposed to curse and cure). It is, however, a potent trope for engaging critically with the consequences of mining not only in narrow economic terms but also in regard to political, social and environmental costs and benefits. Further, as Goodman and Worth (2008: 201) point out, to engage with the resource curse or cure question is to also engage more broadly with “the internal contradictions of capitalist development” as evident, for example, in divisions “between those who benefit from and those who bear the costs of accumulation” and the many conflicts—political, social, economic, environmental—attending resource extraction. It is in this sense that this volume mobilises the ‘resource curse or cure?’ motif.

dc.publisherSpringer
dc.titleConfronting the 'resource curse or cure' binary
dc.typeBook Chapter
dcterms.source.startPage3
dcterms.source.endPage23
dcterms.source.titleResource Curse or Cure? On the Sustainability of Development in Western Australia
dcterms.source.isbn978-3-642-53872-8
dcterms.source.placeheidelberg new york Dordrecht London
dcterms.source.chapter18
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