"Twenty years is yesterday": Science, multinational mining, and the political ecology of trust in New Caledonia

Geoforum

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 617-626

  Horowitz, Leah S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Identity; Indigenous; Melanesia; Resistance; Social movement

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC RELATIONS; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MINING; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA];

EID: 77954314556     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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