The dialectics of negation and negotiation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea

Filer, Colin

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The dialectics of negation and negotiation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea

Date

2003-01-01

Authors

Filer, Colin

Abstract

This multilocal form of ethnographic inquiry is one which may, amongst other things, serve to locate a variety of communities or stakeholders in the ‘social grounds that produce a discourse of policy’ (ibid.: 100).