TY - JOUR
T1 - Mining industry perspectives on indigenous rights
T2 - corporate complacency and political uncertainty
AU - Lawrence, Rebecca
AU - Moritz, Sara
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - Over the last decade or so, there has been a global shift towards attempts to recognise the rights of indigenous peoples, particularly in regards to extractive activities on their traditional territories. At the same time, however, the extraction of natural resources in breach of indigenous rights, continues to take place at ever increasing rates. Using a case study of Swedish mining industry attitudes to indigenous rights, and specifically that of the principle of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), the article explores this paradox. Mining companies operating in Sweden do not currently respect or implement the principle of FPIC, and the article illustrates how mining representatives justify and reconcile this. It elucidates how the Swedish mining industry mobilises various, and at times contradictory, discourses, including on the one hand, the complacent rationale that human rights protections are superfluous in Sweden, and on the other hand, the idea that a respect for FPIC would create uncertainty and thereby threaten the existence of the mining industry.
AB - Over the last decade or so, there has been a global shift towards attempts to recognise the rights of indigenous peoples, particularly in regards to extractive activities on their traditional territories. At the same time, however, the extraction of natural resources in breach of indigenous rights, continues to take place at ever increasing rates. Using a case study of Swedish mining industry attitudes to indigenous rights, and specifically that of the principle of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), the article explores this paradox. Mining companies operating in Sweden do not currently respect or implement the principle of FPIC, and the article illustrates how mining representatives justify and reconcile this. It elucidates how the Swedish mining industry mobilises various, and at times contradictory, discourses, including on the one hand, the complacent rationale that human rights protections are superfluous in Sweden, and on the other hand, the idea that a respect for FPIC would create uncertainty and thereby threaten the existence of the mining industry.
KW - Indigenous Rights
KW - Human Rights
KW - Mining
KW - Resource Extraction
KW - Sami
KW - Sweden
KW - Sámi
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048135668&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.exis.2018.05.008
DO - 10.1016/j.exis.2018.05.008
M3 - Article
SN - 2214-790X
VL - 6
SP - 41
EP - 49
JO - Extractive Industries and Society
JF - Extractive Industries and Society
IS - 1
ER -