Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future.
Resource communities have complicated relationships with the past, and this makes their relationship with the future, and the future itself, also complicated. The book digs deeply into the myriad legacies left by a history of resource extraction in a community and makes use of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives to understand the complex issues being faced by a range of different communities that are reliant on different types of resources across the world. From coal and gold mining, to fishing towns and logging communities, the book explores the legacies of boom and bust economies, social memory, trauma and identity, the interactions between power and knowledge and the implications for adaptive governance. Balancing conceptual and theoretical understandings with empirical and practical knowledge of
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Resource communities in the imperfect grip of the past
2. History, memory and legacy in resource communities
3. Identity and reinvention in resource communities
4. Symbolic violence and healing in resource communities
5. Trauma and healing in resource communities: Invisible legacies and sources for optimism
6. Power knowledge and the governance of resource communities
7. Concentration problems and resource communities
8. Legacies and futures in the governance of resource communities
9. Tripping over the Real: Why strategies often do not work in resource communities
10. Strategy and community in resource communities
11. Conclusions: Legacies, (in) accessible parts, and navigating the futures of resource communities
12. A practical methodology: Self-analysis and strategy in resource communities
