Gender, indigeneity and mining (original) (raw)
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Because of their close relationships to the land, water, and resources therein, and their marginalized social and economic positions, Indigenous peoples living in current or former settler colonies are particularly vulnerable to mining's impacts, yet have the potential to benefit from its opportunities as well. This paper reviews the literature on large-scale mining projects' relationships to Indigenous peoples in post/colonial contexts, focusing on Australia, Canada, Finland, Greenland, New Caledonia, Norway, and Sweden, in the aim of generating insights from comparative perspectives. First, we discuss differences in legal regimes governing Indigenous peoples' rights and implications of those rights for negotiations over mining projects. Next, we examine, in turn, mining activities' various impacts − environmental, economic, social − and how they specifically affect Indigenous communities. Finally, we explore ways that Indigenous communities living in a post/colonial context have addressed large-scale mining projects' impacts by engaging with them, through both negotiation and resistance. We conclude by summarizing our findings on the relationships of Indigenous peoples to large-scale mining projects in the focus countries and identifying what gaps remain in the literature, and we provide thoughts as to how future research could address those gaps.
Indigenous People, Marginalization and Mining
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The indigenous people are in the centrality of all discussion in recent times, particularly in the context of land rights, forest rights and industrial operations. These have given rise to multiple crisis in many Central Indian states. Glaring uncertainties revolve in the central Indian states on the questions of development, economic growth, utilisation of natural resources, ethnic cleansing, militarisation, violation of human rights and dismissal of constitutional rights. The political segment and social system of this country smartly discusses the means and modus operandi of combing the Maoist menace, however, unconvincingly yet conveniently forgets to discuss the core issues at the ground level. This paper discusses the reality of the mining on indigenous land in the context of Chhattisgarh, one of the states faced with this critical calamity.
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How might we characterise indigenous responses to large scale mining projects in Australia? Certain aspects of negotiations with the wider society receive considerable public attention- in particular, the matters of protecting culturally significant land areas, environmental risks and monetary compensation [see, e.g., Connell and Howitt 1991; Howitt et aL 1996]. This paper shifts the fbcus to a consideration of internal deliberations among Aboriginal people; we seek to investigate the social processes whereby mining developments are articulated with indigenous intellectual traditions about the significance ofland. In Queensland's Gulf Country (Figure 1), Aboriginal participation during the past decade in various "site clearance " surveys and especially negotiations over Century Zinc Mine, have prompted both positive and negative local reactions to resource development projects. While some people have sought actively to lock into place a regime of potential benefits fr...
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To what extent do extractive and industrial development pressures affect Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights globally? We analyze 3081 environmental conflicts over development projects to quantify Indigenous Peoples’ exposure to 11 reported social-environmental impacts jeopardizing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous Peoples are affected in at least 34% of all documented environmental conflicts worldwide. More than three-fourths of these conflicts are caused by mining, fossil fuels, dam projects, and the agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and livestock (AFFL) sector. Landscape loss (56% of cases), livelihood loss (52%), and land dispossession (50%) are reported to occur globally most often and are significantly more frequent in the AFFL sector. The resulting burdens jeopardize Indigenous rights and impede the realization of global environmental justice.
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The paper focuses on one of the topics of key concern for both indigenous peoples and the mining se namely the corporate responsibility to respect indigenous peoples' right to give or withhold their con to extractive industry projects in their lands and the fundamental role of this principle in altering predominant and all too frequently devastating model of mining that is imposed in indigenous peo territories. The paper traces the emergence of extractive industry standards and initiatives showing continuing mining disasters and associated human rights abuse have obliged the industry to recog indigenous peoples' right to give or withhold their Free, Prior and Informed Consent to operations may affect their customary lands. It examinesthe development of industry good practice since the W Bank's Extractive Industries Review, the subsequent formation of the International Council on Min and Metals while considering the contribution its members have played in recent mining catastro involving indigenous peoples. It distills good practice on indigenous consultation and the princip native title from evolving national and international lawand tracks how these have led to the inclusi Free, Prior andInformed Consentin the recentInitiative for Responsible Mining Assuranceand Alumin StewardshipInitiative standards. The focus on the two most recent multi-stakeholder standard initia in the mining sector offers a sense for where further developments may occur while also noting potentiallimitations. The paper concludes with recommendations to theextractive industry to recog and protect indigenous' peoples' rights as a preeminent principle of responsible mining good practi
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Mining Conflict and Indigenous People
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 2016
The study is to analyze the mining conflicts that occur in indigenous people which focus on the mining activity. Participatory approach is used to collecting data through Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Focus Group (FGD), as well as in-depth interview. Data qualitative is analyzed with descriptive analysis-eksplanatif. The results reveal that mining conflicts in indigenous people include of land problems and loss of agricultural resources, socioeconomic problems, environmental degradation issues, culture and other social issues. The fundamental problems faced are the decrease of income for the farmers and fishermen as a result from the damage of environment and ecosystems in around of mining exploitations. It is recommended that the Government and Parliament and the parties concerned to conduct a comprehensive evaluation on mining activities.