In this commentary we trace an important change in the use of social licence for resource‐intensive development projects. Social licence is shifting from an approach used by companies to improve relations with affected communities to a concept now used by environmental justice groups, non‐governmental organisations and local communities to contest unpopular resource‐intensive development projects. The term “going rogue” is a productive metaphor to explore this important change in the role of social licence. We focus on the different logics behind how social licence is being used by progressive groups to protest resource‐intensive development, weak state policies and broader economic processes. We end by exploring what the shifting terrain for social licence means for the politics of resource extraction.

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社会许可证是“无赖”吗？

在这篇评论中，我们追踪了在资源密集型开发项目中使用社会许可证的重要变化。社会许可正在从公司用来改善与受影响社区的关系的方法转变为环境司法团体，非政府组织和地方社区现在用来竞争不受欢迎的资源密集型开发项目的概念。“流氓”一词是一个富有成果的隐喻，旨在探讨社会许可作用中的这一重要变化。我们关注进步团体如何使用社会许可来抗议资源密集型发展，薄弱的国家政策和更广泛的经济进程背后的不同逻辑。我们最后探讨了不断变化的社会许可格局对于资源开采的政治意义。