Regimes of Risk

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-11

3. Into the Deep: The World Bank Group, Mining Regimes, and Theoretical Insights

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   Pages 12-36

4. The Open Pit: Socio-Environmental Safeguards, Multilateral Meddling, and Mining Regimes in the Philippines

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   Pages 37-75

5. Mining, Multilateral Safeguards, and Political Representation in Laos

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   Pages 76-100

6. Green Mining in the Gobi? Multilateral Norms and the Making of Mongolia’s Mining Regime

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   Pages 101-124

7. Fighting Back: Resource Nationalism and the Reclaiming of Political Spaces

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   Pages 125-143

8. Conclusion

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9. Back Matter

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With Asia as its backdrop, this book investigates the role played by the World Bank Group (WBG) in conceptualising and promoting new mining regimes tailored for resource-rich country clients. It details a particular politics of mining in the Global South characterised by the transplanting, hijacking and contesting of the WBG's mining agenda.

• Asia
• bank
• environment
• modeling
• science and technology
• transformation
• banking

• Ritsumeikan University, Japan

  Pascale Hatcher

Pascale Hatcher is an Associate Professor in the College of International Relations of Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and an Associate Research Fellow of the Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en Afrique (GRAMA) at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

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