Corporate Risk, Mining Camps and Knowledge/Power

摘要: Australia is currently in the midst of a major resources boom. However benefits from boom are unevenly distributed, with state governments collecting billions royalties, and mining companies profits. The costs borne mostly at local level by regional communities on frontier boom, surrounded thousands men housed work camps. escalating reliance non-resident workers camps carries significant risks for individual workers, host provision human services infrastructure. These include rising rates fatigue-related death injuries, levels alcohol-fuelled violence, illegally erected unregulated camps, soaring housing other living, stretched basic infrastructure undermining sustainability these towns. But have generally escaped industry, government academic scrutiny. This chapter directs critical gaze hopelessly compromised industry funded research vital to legitimating resource sector’s self-serving knowledge claims that it committed social corporate responsibility. divided into two parts. first argues post-industrial regimes mask privatise harms risks, shifting them families communities. second part links privatisation political economy privatised embedded approvals process sector projects.