In this article just out on the journal of Resources Policy, using data from both the USA and Ecuador, I reveal how corporate social licence tactics enable a model of corporate-community manipulation which is similar across different geographical contexts.
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Divide to conquer. A transnational analysis of extractive industries'performative governance tactics to gain social license
Natural resource extraction often takes place in locations where communities are not financially well-off and where historically marginalized groups r…