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This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the
effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific,
considering how large-scale extractive industries engender
contentious social, political and economic questions. Addressing
the strong association in Melanesia between extractive resource
industries and a spectrum of violence ranging from interpersonal to
collective forms, it questions whether islands are particularly
potent spaces for the contentious politics that attend enclave
economies. The book brings island studies literature into a closer
conversation with political and economic geography, demonstrating
that islands provide rich spaces for the investigation of the
socio-spatial relations at the heart of human geography's
theoretical cannon. The book also has a real-world policy edge, as
the sustained and growing dominance of extractive industries, in
concert with the highly contentious politics that they engender,
places them at the centre of efforts to understand state formation,
political reordering and the on-going negotiation of political
settlements of various types throughout post-colonial Melanesia. It
considers how extractive resource industries can shape processes of
state formation, shedding new light on Melanesia's resource curse.
This work offers important new perspectives on the violence and
unrest that gripped Solomon Islands between late 1998 and mid-2003,
a period known as the Ethnic Tension. Based on in-depth interviews
and documents associated with the “Tension Trials”, it is the
first detailed account of the conflict that engages directly with
the voices of the men who joined the rival militant groups. These
contemporary voices are presented against the backdrop of the
socioeconomic and cultural history of Solomon Islands. The findings
provide a refreshing corrective to the pervasive framing of the
Isatabu uprising and the Malaitan response as essentially criminal
and apolitical activities driven by the self-interest of those who
participated in them. Alternative motives for the men who
participated in the Solomons conflict are elucidated, foremost of
which are their own conceptions of history and of the places of
their respective peoples in the historical processes of
colonization, development, and nation-building. Uneven development,
relative deprivation and rapid socioeconomic and cultural change
are highlighted as salient structural causes of the unrest.
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