NOT RESOURCE CURSE NOR RESOURCE BENEFIT, BUT ‘RESOURCE NEGATION’? COMMUNITIES AGAINST COAL SEAM GAS ON THE FOSSIL FRONTIER

Goodman, J; Heikkinen, R; Knobloch, B

NOT RESOURCE CURSE NOR RESOURCE BENEFIT, BUT ‘RESOURCE NEGATION’? COMMUNITIES AGAINST COAL SEAM GAS ON THE FOSSIL FRONTIER

Goodman, J

Heikkinen, R Knobloch, B

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Citation:: Journal of Australian Political Economy, 2022, 2022, (89), pp. 137-157
Issue Date:: 2022-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Goodman, J https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3211-3416
dc.contributor.author	Heikkinen, R
dc.contributor.author	Knobloch, B
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-12T11:46:36Z
dc.date.available	2022-08-12T11:46:36Z
dc.date.issued	2022-12-01
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Australian Political Economy, 2022, 2022, (89), pp. 137-157
dc.identifier.issn	0156-5826
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/160033
dc.description.abstract	Overcoming the problems of resource dependency has been a major preoccupation for mainstream and critical economists at least since the wave of decolonisation in the middle of the Twentieth Century. Newly independent countries, ostensibly masters of their own destiny, were bound hand and foot to international resource extraction. Unequal relations of production, on a world scale, created a form of structural servitude for the post-colonial world (Amin 1976). Escaping unequal development – or at least ameliorating it – became the key preoccupation of the thenemergent field of development studies. That development conundrum was directly transposed into debates about the ‘resource curse’, and how to overcome it. As with developmentalism more widely, the central debate is between ‘modernising’ approaches aiming to civilise resource dependence and more critical approaches seeking to break with it (Collins, this issue). More recently, in the context of widescale socio-ecological crisis, most notably climate disruption, the very idea of ‘resources’, whether as a curse or as a benefit has been radically revised. The implications of this transformation are directly played-out today in community-level struggles against extractivism - and nowhere more so than on the ‘fossil frontier’.
dc.language	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Australian Political Economy
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	12 Built Environment and Design, 14 Economics, 16 Studies in Human Society
dc.title	NOT RESOURCE CURSE NOR RESOURCE BENEFIT, BUT ‘RESOURCE NEGATION’? COMMUNITIES AGAINST COAL SEAM GAS ON THE FOSSIL FRONTIER
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Abstract:

Overcoming the problems of resource dependency has been a major preoccupation for mainstream and critical economists at least since the wave of decolonisation in the middle of the Twentieth Century. Newly independent countries, ostensibly masters of their own destiny, were bound hand and foot to international resource extraction. Unequal relations of production, on a world scale, created a form of structural servitude for the post-colonial world (Amin 1976). Escaping unequal development – or at least ameliorating it – became the key preoccupation of the thenemergent field of development studies. That development conundrum was directly transposed into debates about the ‘resource curse’, and how to overcome it. As with developmentalism more widely, the central debate is between ‘modernising’ approaches aiming to civilise resource dependence and more critical approaches seeking to break with it (Collins, this issue). More recently, in the context of widescale socio-ecological crisis, most notably climate disruption, the very idea of ‘resources’, whether as a curse or as a benefit has been radically revised. The implications of this transformation are directly played-out today in community-level struggles against extractivism - and nowhere more so than on the ‘fossil frontier’.

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