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- First Page
- Preliminary Pages
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations and Currency Conversion Rates
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1. An Absent Presence: Encountering the State Through Natural Resource Extraction in Papua New Guinea and Australia
- 2. Categorical Dissonance: Experiencing Gavman at the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea
- 3. ‘Restraint without Control’: Law and Order in Porgera and Enga Province, 1950–2015
- 4. Being Like a State: How Large‑Scale Mining Companies Assume Government Roles in Papua New Guinea
- 5. Absence as Immoral Act: The PNG LNG Project and the Impact of an Absent State
- 6. In Between Presence and Absence: Ambiguous Encounters of the State in Unconventional Gas Developments in Queensland, Australia
- 7. The State’s Selective Absence: Extractive Capitalism, Mining Juniors and Indigenous Interests in the Northern Territory
- 8. Broken Promise Men: The Malevolent Absence of the State at the McArthur River Mine, Northern Territory
- 9. The State’s Stakes at the Century Mine, 1992–2012
- 10. The State That Cannot Absent Itself: New Caledonia as Opposed to Papua New Guinea and Australia
- Afterword: States of Uncertainty
