Standing on the broken ground of resource extraction settings, the state is sometimes like a chimera: its appearance and intentions are misleading and, for some actors, it is unknowable and incomprehensible. It may be easily mistaken for someone or something else, like a mining company, for...

Standing on the broken ground of resource extraction settings, the state is sometimes like a chimera: its appearance and intentions are misleading and, for some actors, it is unknowable and incomprehensible. It may be easily mistaken for someone or something else, like a mining company, for...

Large-scale mines and local-level politics / Colin Filer and Pierre-Yves le Meur -- From anticipation to practice: social and economic management of the nickel plant's establishment in New Caledonia's North Province / Jean-Michel Sourisseau, Sonia Grochain and David Poithily -- Social and...

Fishing for fairness --Resource frontiers : Palawan, the Calamianes Islands, and Esperanza --Economic, class, and status relations in Esperanza --The "poor moral fisher" : local conceptions of environmental degradation, fishing, and poverty in Esperanza --Fishing, dive tourism, and marine...