ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the resource crisis by utilizing the notions of periphery, invisibility, and postcoloniality in connection with mineral extraction in Finland and Odisha. The first, a Nordic state and European Union member, the other, an eastern state within the Republic of India. Representatives of the mining industry claim the ideas of dirtiness associated with the field utterly outdated. Rob Nixon refers to a politics of violent invisibility and a psychology of denial that actively produces under-and un-imagined communities, and violence-occurring gradually and out of sight-imposed by the world's resource omnivores upon those less privileged. In India, Odisha did not fare well during colonial times or during the first decades of Indian independence. Mining is known to be often grossly harmful to vulnerable sections of local populations, such as indigenous people, who often have only customary rights to the land and they have been dependent on for generations.
