Intersectionality in resource extraction: a case study of sexual violence at the Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea

This article uses the lens of intersectionality to analyze secondary data gathered by international human rights organizations investigating women's experiences of sexual violence near Barrick Gold's mine in the Porgera valley of Papua New Guinea. This case study provides an example of how...

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Published in:International feminist journal of politics 2016-10, Vol.18 (4), p.574-589
Main Author: Manning, Susan M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Canada
Case studies
corporate social responsibility
Cost benefit analysis
Domestic violence
Females
Feminism
Gold
Human rights
Intersectionality
mining
North and South
Power
Sex crimes
sexual violence
Social responsibility
Transnationalism
Victims
Violence
Women's groups
Womens rights
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Summary:This article uses the lens of intersectionality to analyze secondary data gathered by international human rights organizations investigating women's experiences of sexual violence near Barrick Gold's mine in the Porgera valley of Papua New Guinea. This case study provides an example of how an intersectional framework can be useful to feminist researchers exploring North-South power relationships in the context of resource extraction, by helping us ask nuanced questions about the benefits and costs of resource extraction in the Global South. In this article, intersectionality helps to trace the transnational relationships of power that shape women's experiences of violence in Porgera, and Barrick Gold's remediation policy for survivors. Intersectionality serves as a useful tool to map the systems of power at work in Porgera and to make visible the structural violence implicit in the relationship between Canada and Papua New Guinea created by Barrick Gold's operation.
ISSN:1461-6742
1468-4470
DOI:10.1080/14616742.2016.1189670