Séance 9 (10 mai) : résumé + lecture préalable

Séance 9 (10 mai 2024) : Alex Golub, “Anthropologie politique de l’industrie minière en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée et au-delà”

Lien zoom : https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/99200052149?pwd=L0VSZDVtVlJSdlFGaTU0STBPSWZwUT09

Abstract : Mining is a complex social fact. It has existed for thousands of years across the entire globe, and takes many different forms. In fact, mining is best seen as not only as a technical process, but a complex semiotic process. In this session, we will compare mining in Papua New Guinea with resource extraction in other locations in order to understand some common dynamics which may be relevant in French Polynesia. We will see that mining involves the creation of time, space, and place. It shapes the identities of individual actors and corporate groups. It requires the fabrication of new forms of knowledge about the natural world. It is part of political projects, and it depends on our human valuation of precious minerals. To understand mining anywhere, we must understand it everywhere. For this reason, we will begin with Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, and then pay attention to the broader lessons with our global histories — and anthropological theories — can teach us as we find our way in the contemporary Pacific.

Lecture préalable : Alex Golub, « De la visibilité et de la “faisabilité” : vers une anthropologie de l’État et de la société dans l’industrie minière en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée », dans C. Demmer, M. Salaün (dir.), À l’épreuve du capitalisme : dynamiques économiques dans le Pacifique, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2006, p. 178-180

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