Currently a professor of geography at Massey University, Glenn has worked as a researcher on and consultant to the mining industry in the Pacific for more than 30 years. This research is primarily focused on the socio-economic and cultural dimensions of large-scale, private sector investment in the extractive industries in Papua New Guinea and framed by theoretical concerns with development, local agency and empowerment.
Professor Banks is currently conducting collaborative research which examines the ways in which customary forms of land tenure can be used by landowners to engage on their own terms with the capitalist economy, based on case studies in Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
Selected recent publications
Banks, G., & Overton, J. (2024). The Pacific in Transition: 50 Years on. Asia Pacific Viewpoint.
Beban, A., & Banks, G. (2023). Institutions, governance and extractives: Where politics and ecologies collide. Extractive Industries and Society 15.
Frederiksen, T., & Banks, G. (2023). Can Mining Help Deliver the SDGs: Discourses, Risks and Prospects. Journal of Environment and Development. 32(1), 83-106
Frederiksen, T., & Banks, G. (2022). How would a mining sector that was committed to sustainable development behave: a 21<sup>st</sup> century manifesto. Extractive Industries and Society. 11
Banks, G., & Overton, J. (2022). Grounding financialisation: Development, inclusion, and agency. Area. 54(2), 168-175
Le Meur, PY., & Banks, G. (2024). Closure and connection: A Southwest Pacific reappraisal of the mining enclave. In Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods: Rights, Revenues, and Resistance. (pp. 42 – 70).
Banks, G., & Schwörer, T. (2024). Mining-induced in-migration in Papua New Guinea. In Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South: Regional Perspectives. (pp. 145 – 164).