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0000-0003-1577-647X
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Queensland University of Technology
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-09-2022
Abstract: The black‐throated finch is an endangered species whose highest quality remaining habitat directly overlaps with the site of the controversial Adani Carmichael coal mine in Central Queensland, Australia. The image of this finch has been widely used by anti‐Adani protest groups as a powerful symbol for the destructive nature of greenfield coal mining. Drawing on extinction studies literature, we problematise the use of the black‐throated finch as a symbol of imminent extinction, highlighting how activists have constructed a fixed finch on‐the‐brink ontology that narrows possible futures for the species. We identify how the finch has been strategically deployed as an affective tool for engaging publics while the anti‐Adani c aign has been primarily driven by concerns around climate change futures. We use primary sources of anti‐Adani ephemera as well as interviews with key scientists, activists, and image‐makers involved in the debate about the Carmichael coal mine. We argue that critical evaluation of the effects and potential consequences of simplified environmental activist narratives and the instrumentalisation of nonhumans is needed to support and enable activism that centres care and responsibility within multispecies entanglements. Engagement with the complexities of environmental intervention in relation to the finch, and not exclusively the mine, is also necessary to locate openings through which more‐than‐human futures can be creatively imagined and enacted.
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 23-07-2021
DOI: 10.5204/REP.EPRINTS.212047
Abstract: CONTEXT: Social Licence to Operate (SLO) encompasses the broad socio-political understanding on the part of multiple stakeholders that a mining operation’s social and environmental impacts and measures are legitimate and acceptable. The multiple and variously interacting stakeholder groups— local communities, environmental actors, Indigenous communities, regulators, local governments, industry peak bodies, financiers, affiliated businesses—have the proven capacity to confer and/or disrupt a mining operation’s SLO. The presence or absence of a SLO can have significant consequences not only for stakeholder groups, including the mining operation, but also for the shared development of a good mining future. Conceptualisation of what is ‘good mining’ is central to future planning and decisions around development, adoption and reception of new technologies and sustainable mining futures. CHECKLIST PURPOSE This first of its kind tool seeks to facilitate genuine multistakeholder interactions and development of a dynamic shared SLO to advance good mining.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: De Gruyter
Date: 08-02-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-04-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-04-2201
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-04-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-04-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-06-2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-10-2018
DOI: 10.1002/CSR.1460
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
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