Social Terrains of Mine Closure in the Philippines

ISBN-13: 9781138038776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 140 str.

Minerva Chaloping March

Opis

The current discourse on mine closure is informed predominantly by industry and corporate perspectives and the experiences of mining companies that are based in developed countries where necessary legislative and regulatory requirements are enforced reasonably well. Mine closure planning, well promoted and accepted as good business practice in the global minerals industry, has been primarily technical and forward-looking both in approach and focus. This book presents two varying experiences of mine closure to demonstrate that understanding and practice must go beyond the protocols of engineering, financing, and complex technical elements involved in rehabilitation and post-closure monitoring. Based on ethnographic research, Post-Mining Social Terrains explores the implications of mine closure planning on the cultural sustainability of mining communities whose geographic spaces have been dissolved. Bringing together the political, socio-cultural, and affective, dimensions of mine closure particularly the critical implications for community traditions, social memories and identities, and post-mining livelihood, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of anthropology, sociology, and development studies as well as those working in the global minerals sectors and NGOs that engage in community development and advocacy for responsible mining.

O autorze

Minerva Chaloping-March, who grew up in a mining district in northern Philippines, combines consulting and research on social dimensions of mining, cultural criteria for mine closure, and transitions of mining communities. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the Philippines - Australia Studies Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.