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The ‘oil capital of Europe’ in the net zero transition: A corpus linguistics analysis of Aberdeenshire newspapers

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101620

Karolina Trdlicova

{"title":"The ‘oil capital of Europe’ in the net zero transition: A corpus linguistics analysis of Aberdeenshire newspapers","authors":"Karolina Trdlicova","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The City of Aberdeen, bearing the moniker ‘oil capital of Europe’, has set a 2045 net zero greenhouse gas emissions target. The city has historically benefited from and depended on the oil and gas industry and its presence in the North Sea, especially for employment opportunities. Meanwhile, in The Sixth Carbon Budget, the Climate Change Committee has stated that a fossil fuel phase-out is essential to meet the UK's net zero 2050 target. At the 2022 SNP Conference the then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon suggested that Aberdeen should become ‘the net zero capital of the world’. This prompts the question of what this energy transition will look like in a place, whose economy and identity are so closely tied to the fossil fuel industry. I conducted a corpus linguistic analysis of Aberdeenshire newspapers (<em>N</em> = 3508), sampled only by the keyword ‘net zero’; and used critical discourse analysis (CDA) to contextualise the findings within the broader economic, policy and social contexts. This showed that the narrative of the net zero transition presented in the local media thus far is overwhelmingly focused on the oil and gas industry, which is mentioned significantly more than other energy technologies or other aspects of the transitions. This narrow focus on the oil and gas sector suggests an absence of a publicly discussed future vision for the region, highlighting the scope of the challenge that lies ahead if Aberdeen's identity is truly to be redefined from ‘oil capital of Europe’ to ‘net zero capital of the world’.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101620"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Contested masculinities in the exploration phase of the Lihir gold mine, Papua New Guinea

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101621

Colin Filer

{"title":"Contested masculinities in the exploration phase of the Lihir gold mine, Papua New Guinea","authors":"Colin Filer","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101621","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101621","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The large gold deposit that is now being mined on the island of Lihir in Papua New Guinea was first discovered in 1982, but the development agreements were not signed until 1995. Between 1985 and 1994, I made several trips to the island in order to assess the future social impacts of the mine and provide advice to various actors on the question of how these impacts could be mitigated. The question of what should be done to mitigate the impact on Lihirian women, or on gender relations in Lihirian society, was one of the questions that had to be addressed. It was already evident that this question was difficult to answer because there was a sort of power struggle going on between the small group of European men who were in charge of the exploration work and a somewhat larger group of Lihirian men who had positioned themselves as representatives of the local community. The first question addressed in this paper is whether this was not just a power struggle between a group of white men and a group of black men in a post-colonial or neocolonial political context, but also a contest between different conceptions of masculinity that were themselves being transformed by the imminent prospect of a large-scale gold mine. The second question is how the evolution of this contest over the course of a decade either broadened or narrowed the scope for Lihirian women to escape the subordinate position that they occupied when the contest began.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101621"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Extractive Industries and Society Annual Report on China's Petroleum, Gas and New Energy Industry (2022–2023) edited by China International United Petroleum & Chemicals Co., Ltd., Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University (Springer, 2024). ISBN 978-981-99-7288-3. 392pp

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101615

Estherlita Elizabeth Syaranamual , Nursitna Faradilla Rukdianti Mahmud , Sarah Novianti Salampessy , Redgie Alexander Pattiapon

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Negotiating extraction: Indigenous peoples and the upscaling of artisanal and small-scale mining in the central Peruvian Amazon

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101616

Hernán Manrique López , Daniel Hernando Hernando

{"title":"Negotiating extraction: Indigenous peoples and the upscaling of artisanal and small-scale mining in the central Peruvian Amazon","authors":"Hernán Manrique López , Daniel Hernando Hernando","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101616","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101616","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) is on the rise in the Amazon biome. Several Protected Areas and indigenous lands from Peruvian Amazonia are currently witnessing a rapid expansion and upscaling of ASM. Nonetheless, while most of the scholarship documents cases of land grabbing and conflict, this article examines a case where indigenous communities negotiated access to their lands and managed to settle agreements with ASM operators, resulting in tangible individual and collective benefits. Based on an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses fieldwork, spatial analysis and GIS mapping in the <em>Reserva Comunal El Sira</em> in the Central Peruvian Amazon, this article follows three research objectives. It first documents the growth of ASM in this Protected Area, then explores the motivations of indigenous communities to engage in ASM, and finally examines how these communities coexist with ASM through negotiating individual and collective benefits. Results provide evidence that far from rejecting extraction, indigenous communities can coexist with ASM, even with so-called ‘illegal miners’, through pragmatic agreements. Our findings challenge monolithic narratives portraying ASM expansion on indigenous lands as merely environmental crimes, highlighting the need for a more nuanced perspective on its diverse expressions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101616"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Green(ing) extractivisms: Chile's mining evolution and adaptation to the global energy transition

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101618

Martín Arias-Loyola , Francisco Vergara-Perucich , Felipe Encinas

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Capitalism and resource extraction: A Marxist value-theory approach to Latin American socio-environmental conflicts

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101617

Malena Antmann

{"title":"Capitalism and resource extraction: A Marxist value-theory approach to Latin American socio-environmental conflicts","authors":"Malena Antmann","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101617","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101617","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This review-essay takes Planetary Mine by Martín Arboleda (2020) as an opportunity to analyse whether a Marxist theoretical framework can provide an adequate point of departure to understand extractive industries in an accurate way, both for theoretical and practical purposes. To this end, I address a dialogue between extractivist scholars and Marxism and evaluate the criticisms of Marxism put forth by E. <span><span>Gudynas (2015)</span></span> and M. <span><span>Duer (2017)</span></span> on this topic. These objections can be grouped into four main points: a) Marxist categories alone cannot adequately explain the allocation of primary commodity production in the Southern Cone, b) nor can they account for the colonialism that pervades the Latin American landscape; c) Marxist value-theory is anthropocentric, as it does not acknowledge the agency of non-human nature in the production of wealth; d) the Marxist framework reproduces the view of liberal economic theories, treating non-human nature as an external object. In order to respond to these objections, I explore the philosophical premises of Arboleda's investigation on the mining industry and the practical consequences which stem from this theoretical approach. Overall, I conclude that, although some metatheoretical guidelines could be further refined, the book still offers a brilliant intervention in extractivist debates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101617"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The green transition in Morocco: Extractivity, inclusivity, and the stability of the social contract

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101614

Mohamed Ismail Sabry

{"title":"The green transition in Morocco: Extractivity, inclusivity, and the stability of the social contract","authors":"Mohamed Ismail Sabry","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101614","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101614","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the social contract governing the green transition in Morocco. The theoretical framework builds on the literature on social contracts and policy coalitions, while the methodology depends on process tracing and qualitative data collected during fieldtrip visits. Identifying different possible social contracts that characterize the transition and differentiating between them in terms of their extractivity/inclusivity and stability, the paper suggests that Morocco tends to have an extractive but stable social contract. The European Union's growing demand on renewables and decarbonization represents a largely exogenous cause that set certain mechanisms through the activities of various state and social actors. Contextual conditions then shaped the impact of these activities on the resulting social contract. The presence of a powerful state that shared strong connections with powerful but subservient tycoons magnified the impact of their activities at the expense of those of other social actors, while other contextual conditions helped cement a pro-green transition policy coalition. The benefits accrued to those partners of the pro-coalition making it an extractive social contract, while the absence of a clear interest identification against the transition among other social actors made the emergence of a contra policy coalition less likely and stabilized the social contract.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101614"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Marine life versus energy security: Contesting offshore oil and gas seismic surveys along South Africa's Wild Coast

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101575

Richard Meissner

{"title":"Marine life versus energy security: Contesting offshore oil and gas seismic surveys along South Africa's Wild Coast","authors":"Richard Meissner","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101575","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101575","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In late 2021, protests occurred in South Africa against Shell's planned seismic surveys along the Wild Coast. Environmentalists have expressed concerns that these surveys could adversely affect marine life and harm fisheries and the ecological balance. Critics argued that Shell bypassed environmental assessments to gain permission for these surveys. Activists and protesters urged Shell and the government to halt the exploration to protect the Wild Coast and its marine life. Business owners in tourist areas were also worried about the potential impact on tourism. This topic became a national debate and gained significant attention from various media outlets. Shell and the Department of Minerals and Energy defended the exploration by stating that it would be sustainable and beneficial for the country's energy needs. The paper is a case study investigating offshore oil and gas exploration along the Wild Coast. Using the argumentative discourse analysis approach, the report aims to highlight the role of political science and international relations in deepening our understanding of the interaction between humans and marine and maritime resources.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101575"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The responsible cobalt sourcing assemblage: Thinking through a booming governance framework

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101613

Hadassah Arian , Espérant Mwishamali Lukobo , Sara Geenen , Sarah Katz-Lavigne

{"title":"The responsible cobalt sourcing assemblage: Thinking through a booming governance framework","authors":"Hadassah Arian , Espérant Mwishamali Lukobo , Sara Geenen , Sarah Katz-Lavigne","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101613","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101613","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since around 2016, the world has seen a mushrooming of so-called ‘responsible cobalt sourcing’ initiatives, aiming to tackle a series of human rights and (child) labour concerns around the artisanal and small-scale (ASM) mines in Lualaba province, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These initiatives include state-led efforts, such as the launch of the <em>Entreprise Générale du Cobalt</em> and the inauguration of the Musompo Trading Centre, as well as industry-led initiatives, such as the Fair Cobalt Alliance, Mutoshi Pilot Project, and RCS Better Mining. Whereas several of these have been analyzed separately, there is a gap in the literature providing a holistic understanding of these developments; how they have emerged, how they are interconnected, and how they are sustained, despite arguably limited impact for ASM communities. In this article, we fill this gap by conceptualizing the ‘responsible cobalt sourcing assemblage.’ We argue that the assemblage approach helps to foreground the non-linearity and contingency of responsible sourcing while also acknowledging the ongoing labor of (re)shaping and sustaining the assemblage. Using Li's (2007a) analytic of assemblage practices, we unpack the processuality, multiplicity and agency of the assemblage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101613"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mineral resource exploitation and landownership rights: Understanding the ‘doctrine of custodianship’ in minerals and mining legislation in South Africa

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101611

Moshood Issah , Lanre Abdul-Rasheed Sulaiman , Abdullateef Raji , Fatima Aliu , Ridwan Olabisi Yusuff , Salihu Zakariyyah Abdulbaqi , Sunday Joseph Akor , Nurudeen Adesola Malik

{"title":"Mineral resource exploitation and landownership rights: Understanding the ‘doctrine of custodianship’ in minerals and mining legislation in South Africa","authors":"Moshood Issah , Lanre Abdul-Rasheed Sulaiman , Abdullateef Raji , Fatima Aliu , Ridwan Olabisi Yusuff , Salihu Zakariyyah Abdulbaqi , Sunday Joseph Akor , Nurudeen Adesola Malik","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101611","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101611","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Legislation and policy frameworks on mineral resource exploitation and landownership rights in South Africa were heavily influenced by the Roman-Dutch law. These legal frameworks changed from 1795 with the annexation of the Cape by the British, and the discoveries of Gold and diamonds in the 19th century in South Africa. Expectedly, scholars have documented the evolution and development of mineral resources and landownership rights in South Africa. However, while there is interesting scholarship on mineral resource exploitation and landownership rights in South Africa, this scholarship fail to see mineral legislation from the perspective of eminent domain. Thus, this paper contextualized the doctrine of ‘custodianship’ as embedded in the Mineral and Petroleum Development Act of 2004 (MPRDA) within the conceptual framework of eminent domain. The paper uses discourse analysis to analyze historical and legal documents and academic literature. The analysis revealed that the doctrine of ‘custodianship’ as used in MPRDA connotes eminent domain. This is because the doctrine implies that nation's mineral resources are <em>res publicae</em> (belong to all South Africans, and the state is the custodian thereof). Looking at the notion of ‘custodianship’ in this way would open a new discussion on mineral resource discourse in post-apartheid South Africa.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101611"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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