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IRD. (2025, 22 mai). "Resource curse" or "tough neighborhood"? Untangling law and order problems at the Porgera gold mine, Papua New Guinea - Cosavez-vous ? Géoressources et durabilité. [Vidéo]. Canal-U. https://www.canal-u.tv/163762. (Consultée le 3 juin 2025)
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"Resource curse" or "tough neighborhood"? Untangling law and order problems at the Porgera gold mine, Papua New Guinea - Cosavez-vous ? Géoressources et durabilité

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Increasingly, scholars use the term ‘resource curse’ not in a narrow technical sense, but to refer to all social pathology that occurs near resource
developments. But how adequate can monocausal accounts of disorder be when they rely on an increasingly vague concept? 

In this presentation Dr. Golub will examine the history of the Porgera gold mine in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. The presentation will develop a more precise understanding of the relationship between the negative social effects of mining (the ‘resource curse’) and the broader social context of Enga
province (the ‘tough neighborhood’). 

Enga province has been greatly enriched by revenues from Porgera, but has also experienced political corruption, increased levels of violence (inaccurately called ‘tribal fighting’), and a troubling rise in sorcery accusation related violence (or SARV).


Using a historical approach, Dr. Golub will demonstrate the complex and dialectical interrelations between the mine and the province are more
complex than what has been referred to too casually as ‘the resource curse’. 

 

Speakers:

ALEX GOLUB, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA
Alex Golub is the author of the book Leviathans at the gold mine and co-editor of the special issue of Oceania entitled "Rethinking decolonisation in Papua New Guinea".

MIRANDA FORSYTH, SCHOOL OF REGULATION AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Miranda is a socio-legal scholar who has worked on issues of justice, violence and peacebuilding in Melanesia for the past two decades.
She has a long-standing interest in sorcery accusation related violence and is the Director of the International Network Against Witchcraft Accusations and Ritual Attackse.

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