Neoliberal Modes of Participation in Frontier Settings: Mining, Multilateral Meddling, and Politics in Laos†
Neoliberal Modes of Participation in Frontier Settings: Mining, Multilateral Meddling, and Politics in Laos†
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新自由主义参与前沿环境的模式：老挝的采矿、多边干预和政治†
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10.1080/14747731.2015.1016305
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2015
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P. Hatcher
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在推动高度自由化的采矿法规几十年后，世界银行集团现在将减贫和环境可持续性作为其参与该行业的基本目标。在这个新办法中，当地参与占据中心地位，根据这种办法，由各种松散界定的地方协会和受采矿活动影响的当地社区的居民在某一采矿项目的每一个阶段都有发言权。本文以老挝为例，研究了世界银行推广的参与式模式及其实施的政治因素。分析表明，地方社区的参与是在一个框架内进行的，该框架将参与性计划视为一种管理工具，首先是限制采矿投资者所面临的风险。虽然这显然是为了减轻政治风险，以促进建立新的自由市场的更大项目，但它进一步提出了与重塑权力和代表性的政治概念有关的问题。
Abstract After decades promoting highly liberalised mining codes, the World Bank Group has now positioned poverty reduction and environmental sustainability as the fundamental objectives of its involvement in the sector. Within this new approach, local participation occupies a central position, whereby a loosely defined mix of local associations, as well as residents of local communities affected by mining activities, is to have a voice in every stage of a given mining project. Building on the case of Laos, this article investigates both the participatory model promoted by the World Bank and the politics of the model's implementation. The analysis suggests that the involvement of local communities is ensconced within a framework which conceives participatory schemes as a management tool to, first and foremost, circumscribe the risks faced by mining investors. While this represents a clear attempt to mitigate political risk in order to facilitate the larger project of building new liberal markets, it further raises questions linked to the remodelling of political notions of empowerment and representation.