Extraction Politics: Rio Tinto and the Corporate Persona - Couverture rigide

Paliewicz, Nicholas S.

 
9780271097060: Extraction Politics: Rio Tinto and the Corporate Persona
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 027109706X ISBN 13 : 9780271097060
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024

Synopsis

An investigation into one of the largest and most lucrative mineral mining companies in the world, Rio Tinto, Extraction Politics reveals how the company constructs a presence in the places it operates and shapes meanings and orientations toward the environment.

Taking readers on a “rhetorical pilgrimage” across the American Southwest, Nicholas Paliewicz shows how Rio Tinto creates adaptable corporate identities. From Ronald Reagan’s frontiersman advertisements for the Borax Mine in California to the pioneer Mormon persona at Bingham Canyon Mine in Salt Lake City and the folksy, paternalistic perspective toward the San Carlos Apache at the proposed mine at Oak Flat, Arizona, the company appropriates local history to embed itself as a valued member of the public―without having to settle in those ecological communities and bear the costs of extraction. This does not occur without resistance, however. Paliewicz also shows how activists use these same tactics to expose Rio Tinto as an exploitative, colonialist polluter.

In an era of surging demand for dwindling supplies of minerals and metals, this book previews what the future of extractivism may look like. Extraction Politics will appeal to scholars and students of environmental communication and activist politics as well as general readers interested in the climate crisis.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nicholas Paliewicz is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Louisville. He is the coauthor of Racial Terrorism; Memory and Monument Wars in American Cities; and The Securitization of Memorial Space.

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Éditeur
Pennsylvania State University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
027109706X
ISBN 13 
9780271097060
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
236
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780271097077: Extraction Politics: Rio Tinto and the Corporate Persona

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0271097078 ISBN 13 :  9780271097077
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2026
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