Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Critical Approaches

ISBN-13: 9781032090450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 152 str.

Chris Huggins

Opis

This book examines mining from a perspective of governance and rights, focusing on rights to land, natural resources and other forms of material ‘property’. It was originally published online as a special issue of the journal Third World Thematics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM): critical approaches to property rights and governance  2. Revisiting the interconnections between research strategies and policy proposals: reflections from the artisanal and small-scale mining sector in Africa  3. The politics of artisanal and small-scale mining in Mongolia  4. Property rights and large-scale mining: overlapping claims at and around mining sites at the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia  5. ‘Custom’ and fractured ‘community’: mining, property disputes and law on the platinum belt, South Africa  6. Disputes over gold mining and dispossession of local afrodescendant communities from the Alto Cauca, Colombia  7. Different faces of access control in a Congolese gold mine  8. Artisanal gold mining in Kejetia (Tongo, Northern Ghana): a three-dimensional perspective

O autorze

Chris Huggins is Assistant Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses on the political economy of natural resource management in Africa. He is author of Agricultural Reform in Rwanda: Authoritarianism, Markets and Zones of Governance (2017).