Transnational Law and Local Struggles : Mining, Communities and the World Bank.

Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Understanding Regulation and Legitimation: The Challenges for Transnational Law -- UNDERSTANDING REGULATION: THE INTERACTION OF TWO KINDS OF LAW -- CONSTITUTING LEGAL AUTHORITY THROUGH LEGITIMATION -- 2. The Selective Absence of the State: Delegating Responsibility for Mining and Community Conflicts -- THE SOCIAL MEDIATION OF MINING DEVELOPMENT -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO THE PREDICAMENT -- THE RISE OF LOCAL CLAIMS FOR THE SOCIAL MEDIATION OF MINING INVESTMENT -- THE PREDICAMENT OF THE STATE -- PERU'S RESPONSE TO THE PREDICAMENT: A STRATEGY OF SELECTIVE ABSENCE -- CONCLUSION: STATE ABSENCES AND THE PROMOTION OF LOCAL AND TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL ORDERING -- 3. Transnational Law-making in a Global Policay Arena: Addressing Mining and Community Conflicts -- INTRODUCTION -- TRANSNATIONAL LAW-MAKING AND CORPORATEACCOUNTABILITY IN GLOBALISING INDUSTRIES -- GLOBALISATION BACKLASH AND THE RISE OF CERTIFICATION INSTITUTIONS -- TRANSNATIONAL LAW-MAKING AND MINING AND COMMUNITY CONFLICTS -- CERTIFICATION AND THE MINING INDUSTRY -- TRANSNATIONAL LAW-MAKING AT THE WORLD BANK -- A NOTE ON THE GLOBALISATION OF THE WORLD BANK'S REGULATORY MODEL -- CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL REGIMES FOR ADDRESSING MINING AND COMMUNITY CONFLICTS -- 4. The World Bank Safeguard Policy Regime: A Globalising Regulatory Model -- WHAT IS THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF LARGE PROJECT DEVELOPERS? THE WORLD BANK GROUP'S ANSWER -- OVERVIEW OF THE WORLD BANK SAFEGUARD POLICY REGIME -- INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT -- DECISION-MAKING STRUCTURES AND LEGITIMATION STRATEGIES IN THE WBG SAFEGUARD POLICY REGIME -- USING 'PARTICIPATION' TO STRUCTURE PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN DECISION-MAKING.

EXPERT INVOLVEMENT IN IR POLICY DECISION-MAKING: THE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL SPECIALIST -- CLOSING SUMMARY -- 5. Communities and Corporations -- APPROACHING THE CONCEPTS OF CORPORATION AND COMMUNITY -- QUESTIONING COMMUNITY -- COMMUNITY, IDENTITY AND AUTHORITY IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES -- PROBLEMATISING THE CORPORATION: UNDERSTANDING TRANSNATIONAL MINING PROJECTS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 6. Case Study: Antamina in San Marcos -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: INTRODUCTIONS TO THE ACTORS -- PART II: THE PROCESSES OF LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT -- PART III: RE-ENGAGEMENT UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE WBG INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT POLICY REGIME -- 7. Assessing the World Bank Safeguard Policy -- INTRODUCTION -- CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING THE INTERPRETIVE POWER OF SOCIAL SPECIALISTS -- IR POLICY REGULATORY DECISIONS MADE IN THE CASE STUDY -- ASSESSING THE RELATIVE INFLUENCE OF THE DECISION-MAKING RATIONALITIES -- THE QUALITY OF SOCIAL SPECIALIST DECISION-MAKING IN THE IR POLICY MODEL -- MOVING FORWARD: BRIDGING 'SOCIAL ACCEPTABILITY' AND 'SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE' -- 8. Transnational Law and Democratic Governance -- POSING THE QUESTION: ANTECEDENTS TO AN INQUIRY INTO DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY -- THE DYNAMICS OF A GLOBAL POLICY ARENA -- INTERLEGALITY -- LEGITIMACY AND TRANSNATIONAL ORDERING -- LEGITIMACY, POLITICAL IDENTITY AND TRANSNATIONAL LAW -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book examines the regulation of the conflicts into transnational mining investment through national, transnational and local legal processes.

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