Scholars concerned with the European colonial period have been able to draw on a vast body of primary sources preserved in official archives. While the military may have been the ultimate arbitrators of their power, the colonial states were highly bureaucratic. They generated, and indeed depended upon, an unending flow of information that was collected, collated and archived as an organized bod...

• The paper draws attention to corporate use of discourse physical conflict for the legitimisation violence. suggests that can be used create inequality. over land is rooted in colonial legacies. language reports lend support post-colonial ideologies. This explores how as a strategic resource boundary work confront between large scale mining companies and artisanal small-scale miners legitimacy...