Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South

ISBN-13: 9781032321790 / Twarda / 2023 / 248 str.

Opis

This volume can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change.

Recenzje

"This is a fascinating collection of studies offering new perspectives to existing literature on mining, both large and small-scale, by focusing on how this activity affects and is affected by peoples´ mobility. Through rich stories and original research readers travel the world, from the tin belt of Bolivia to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and distant New Caledonia, meeting men and women on the move, as migrants and workers, people whose lives are deeply intertwined with the mines. The result is a deeply satisfying volume providing new insights for academics, activists, and policymakers."

Cynthia A. Sanborn, Professor of Political Science and Researcher, Center for the Study of China and the Asia-Pacific, Universidad del Pacífico, Peru

"This provocative volume draws our attention to the multitude of human and non-human movements that are put into motion through resource extraction projects. The insights from Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South cross scales, disciplines, and geographies and ultimately culminate into a proposition for re-defining how we interpret the spatial and temporal extent of mining projects and their activities. It is an important contribution for scholars, policy makers, and advocates in addition to the many other professions embedded in the global resource economy."

John Owen, Honorary Professor, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, University of Queensland, Australia and Visiting Professor, Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, South Africa

Spis treści

1          An Introduction to Mining, Mobility, and Social Change                                    

            Matthew Himley, David Brereton, and Gerardo Castillo Guzmán

 

 

SECTION I

The Andes                                                                                                                              

 

2          Ch’ixi Mobilities: Small-Scale Mining and Indigenous Autonomy

in the Bolivian Tin Belt                                                                                    

Andrea Marston

 

3          Mining, Infrastructure, and Mobility in the Andes

            Gerardo Damonte, Julieta Godfrid, and Ana Paula López

 

4          Navigating Gendered Landscapes of Mineral Extraction: Spatial Mobility,

Women’s Autonomy, and Mining Development in the Peruvian Andes              

Gerardo Castillo Guzmán

 

 

SECTION II

Central and West Africa                                                                                                        

 

5          Chasing Gold: Technology, People, and Matter on the Move in

Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo                                                                    

Philippe Dunia Kabunga, Simon Marijsse, and Sara Geenen

 

6          Making Mining Localities: Trajectories and Stories of Mining and

Mobility in Zambia                                                                                                      

Patience Mususa and Iva Peša

 

7          The Governance of ASGM in Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire: (Im)mobility,

Territory, and Technological Change                                                                             

Anna Dessertine, Robin Petit-Roulet, Muriel Champy, and Ibrahima Kalil Doumbouya

 

 

SECTION III

Melanesia

 

8          Mining-Induced In-Migration in Papua New Guinea                                                      

Glenn Banks and Tobias Schwörer

 

9          Mining Fronts, Labor Mobilities, and the Construction of Locality

in Thio, New Caledonia                                                                                    

Pierre-Yves Le Meur

 

10        Beyond the Enclave: Workforce Mobility and Livelihoods in a

New Caledonia Mining Region                                                                         

Séverine Bouard and Valentine Boudjema

 

 

SECTION IV

Conclusion

 

11        Mining and Mobility: Key Insights, Governance Implications, and Future Research             

David Brereton, Gerardo Castillo Guzmán, and Matthew Himley

O autorze

Gerardo Castillo Guzmán is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Peru. He is Coordinator of the Anthropology of the City Research Group at PUCP, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute, Australia.

Matthew Himley is Professor of Geography at Illinois State University, USA. He is a nature–society geographer with research interests in the political ecology and political economy of resource industries, especially in the Andean region of South America. He is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography (Routledge, 2021).

David Brereton is Emeritus Professor of the University of Queensland, Australia, where he was Foundation Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining. Since retiring from the University in 2016, he has continued to undertake research and advisory work focused on improving corporate social performance in the global mining sector.