Books

Bainton, N. 2010. The Lihir Destiny: Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia. Canberra: ANU Press.

Bainton, N., McDougall, D., Alexeyeff, K., & J. Cox. (Eds). 2021. Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific. Canberra: ANU Press.

Bainton, N. & E. Skrzypek. (Eds). 2021. The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects. Canberra: ANU Press.

Edited Special Issues

‘Mining, Mobilities and Sustainable Development’. 2018. (Eds Nicholas Bainton, John Owen & Deanna Kemp). Special Issue Sustainable Development. Volume 26: 5.

‘Embedding Gender-Responsive Approaches in Impact Assessment and Management’. 2021. (Eds Nora Götzman & Nicholas Bainton). Special Issue Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. Volume 39:3.

Book Chapters

Bainton, N. & E. Skrzypek. 2022. Ethics and Positionality in the Anthropology of Resource Extraction. In Pijpers, R., and L. D’Angelo (Eds), The Anthropology of Resource Extraction, pp131-148. London: Routledge.

Bainton, N. & D. McDougall. 2021. Unequal Lives in the Western Pacific: An Introduction. In Bainton, et al. (Eds), Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific. Canberra: ANU Press.

Bainton, N. 2021. Menacing the Mine: Double Asymmetry and Mutual Incomprehension in the Lihir Islands. In Bainton, N., et al. (Eds), Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific. Canberra: ANU Press.

Bainton, N. & M. Macintyre. 2021. Being Like a State: How Mining Companies Assume Government Roles in Papua New Guinea. In Bainton, N. & E. Skrzypek (Eds), The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects. Canberra: ANU Press.

Bainton, N. & E. Skrzypek. 2021. An Absent Presence: Encountering the State Through Natural Resource Extraction in Papua New Guinea and Australia. In Bainton, N. & E. Skrzypek (Eds), The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects. Canberra: ANU Press.

Bainton, N., Owen, J. R., & E. Skrzypek. 2021. Afterword: States of Uncertainty. In Bainton, N. & E. Skrzypek. (Eds), The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects. Canberra: ANU Press.

Bainton, N. 2020. Mining and Indigenous Peoples. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.121

Bainton, N. 2017. Migrants, Labourers and Landowners at the Lihir Gold Mine. In Filer, C., and P. Le Meur (Eds), Large-Scale Mines and Local-Level Politics: Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia. Canberra: ANU Press.

Bainton, N., & Macintyre, M. 2016. Mining Riches and Mortuary Ritual in Island Melanesia. In Lipset, D. and E. Silverman (Eds),_ Mortuary Dialogues: Death Rites and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities._ Oxford: Berghahn Press.

Bainton, N. 2015. The Lihir Language in Modern Social and Historical Context. In Grammar of the Lihir Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea by Karl Neuhaus. Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Port Moresby. Editors: Simon Ziegler, Don Niles.

Bainton, N. & Macintyre, M. 2013. ‘My land, My Work’: Business Development and Large-Scale Mining in Papua New Guinea. In McCormack, F., and K. Barclay (Eds), Engaging Capitalism: Cases from Oceania. Research in Economic Anthropology. Bingley, UK: Emerald Press.

Bainton, N. 2011. Are You Viable? Personal Avarice, Collective Antagonism and Grassroots Development in Melanesia. In Patterson, M., and M., Macintyre (Eds), Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.

Journal Articles

Hamago, J., Burton, J., Owen, J., & Bainton, N. (2023). Multidimensional poverty and small-scale mining in the shadow of large-scale mines in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Rural Studies, 101, 103045. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103045

Bainton, N., Burton, J., & Owen, J. R. 2022. Land relations, resource extraction and displacement effects in island Papua New Guinea. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(6), 1295-1315.

Sharma, V., Heynan, T., Bainton, N., and J. Burton. 2021. The Papua New Guinea Electrification Partnership: Power and Diplomacy in the Pacific. Energy Research & Social Science, 79, 102186.

Götzman, N. & Bainton, N. 2021. Introduction: Embedding Gender-Responsive Approaches in Impact Assessment and Management. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 39 (3), 171-182.

Bainton, N., Kemp, D., Lèbre, E., Owen, J. R., & G. Marston. 2021. The Energy-Extractives Nexus and the Just Transition. Sustainable Development. 2021; 1– 11. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2163

Bainton, N., Owen, J.R., Kenema, S. & Burton, J. 2020. Land, Labour and Capital: Small and Large-scale Miners in Papua New Guinea. Resources Policy, 68, 101805. ** Bainton, N.**, Owen, J. R., & Kemp, D. 2020. Invisibility and the Extractive-Pandemic Nexus. The Extractive Industries and Society, 7(3), 841-843.

Bainton, N., & Jackson, R. T. 2020. Adding and Sustaining Benefits: Large-scale Mining and Landowner Business Development in Papua New Guinea. The Extractive Industries and Society, 7(2), 366-375.

Bainton, N., & Owen, J. R. 2019. Zones of Entanglement: Researching Mining Arenas in Melanesia and Beyond. The Extractive Industries and Society, 6(3), 767-774.

Bainton, N., & Holcombe, S. 2018. A Critical Review of the Social Aspects of Mine Closure. Resources Policy, 59, 468-478.

Bainton, N. & Banks, G. 2018. Land and Access: A Framework for Analysing Mining, Migration and Development in Melanesia. Sustainable Development, 26(5), 450-460.

Bainton, N., Owen, J. R., & Kemp, D. 2018. Mining, Mobility and Sustainable Development: An introduction. _Sustainable Developme_nt, 26(5), 437-440.

Gillespie, K., and N. Bainton. 2012. Coming out of the Stone: Dangerous Heritage and the Death of the Twinhox Band. Yearbook for Traditional Music 44: 71-86.

Bainton, N., C. Ballard, K. Gillespie. 2012. The End of the Beginning? Mining, Sacred Geographies, Memory and Performance in Lihir. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 23: 22-49.

Bainton, N., C. Ballard, K. Gillespie and N. Hall. 2011. Stepping Stones Across the Lihir Islands: Developing Cultural Heritage Management Strategies in the Context of a Gold-Mining Operation. International Journal of Cultural Property 18: 81-110.

Bainton N. 2009. Keeping the Network Out of View: Mining, Distinctions and Exclusion in Melanesia. Oceania 79:18-33.

Bainton N. 2008. The Genesis and the Escalation of Desire and Antipathy in the Lihir Islands, Papua New Guinea. The Journal of Pacific History 43:289-312.

Bainton, N. 2008. Men of Kastom and the Customs of Men: Status, Legitimacy and Persistent Values in Lihir, Papua New Guinea. In Changing Pacific Masculinities, (Ed) John Taylor, Special Issue, The Australian Journal of Anthropology 19 (2): 195-213.

Research Reports

Skrzypek, E., Bainton, N., Lebre, E., & J. Burton. 2022. The Justice Dimensions of Extracting Energy Transition Metals from the Pacific. London: The British Academy.

Götzmann, Nora and Nick Bainton. 2019. Papua LNG Human Rights Impact Assessment: Focus on Gender, Security and Conflict. Danish Institute for Human Rights, Denmark; and Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland, Australia.