State crime on the margins of empire: Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and resistance to mining

This work offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of state-corporate crime within the mining industries.

It follows a single, brutal campaign of resistance organised by indigenous activists on the island of Papua New Guinea, who struggled against a decision to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine, and investigates the subsequent state-corporate response, which led to the shocking loss of some 10,000 lives.