Illegal Mining: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World

ISBN-13: 9783030463267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 573 str.

Yulia Zabyelina; Daan Van Uhm

Recenzje

"In Illegal Mining the editors thoughtfully constellate a variety of scholarship together to produce this timely and important book ... . this thought-provoking book is fundamental for empowering future decision-makers to do a better job than we and those before us were able to do ... . Illegal Mining, and the research and scholarship therein, is a must-read book promoting a 'gold' standard for how academia should consider the twin, braided perils of OCGs and illegal mining." (James Gacek, International Criminology, Vol. 1, 2021)

Spis treści

Foreword

                        Riikka Puttonnen

 

Notes on Contributors

 

Acronyms

 

List of Figures and Images

 

List of Tables

 

Part I. Introduction

 

Chapter 1. The New Eldorado: Organized Crime, Informal Mining, and the Global Scarcity of Metals and Minerals

                        Yuliya Zabyelina and Daan van Uhm

 

Chapter 2. Why Organized Crime Seeks New Criminal Marnests

                        Jay S. Albanese

 

Chapter 3. The Queer Ladder of Social Mobility: Illegal Enterprise in the Anthracite Mining Region of Pennsylvania in the Interwar Decades (1917–1945)

            Robert Schmidt

 

Part II. Organized Crime in the Mining Sector

 

Chapter 4. Links Between Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining and Organized Crime in Latin America and Africa

            Livia Wagner and Marcena Hunter

 

Chapter 5.  The Diversification of Organized Crime into Gold Mining: Domination, Crime Convergence, and Ecocide in Darién, Colombia

                        Daan van Uhm

 

Chapter 6. Where the Metal Meets the Flesh: Organized Crime, Violence, and the Illicit Iron Ore Economy in Mexico’s Michoacán State

Fausto Carbajal-Glass

 

Chapter 7. Diamond Mining, Organized Crime and Corruption

                        Dina Siegel

 

Chapter 8. Warlords and Their Black Holes: The Plunder of Mining Regions in Afghanistan and the Central African Republic by Organized Crime

                        Kimberley L. Thachuk

 

Part III. Organized Crime and Informal Mining

 

Chapter 9. Shadow Deals in the “Sunny Stone”: Organized Crime and Informality in the Illicit Extraction and Trade of Amber in Ukraine

                        Yuliya Zabyelina and Nicole Kalczynski

 

Chapter 10. Between Informality and Organized Crime: Criminalization of Small-Scale Mining in the Peruvian Rainforest

                        Eva Bernet Kempers

 

Chapter 11. When Gold Speaks, Every Tongue is Silent: The Thin Line between Legal, Illegal, and Informal in Peru’s Gold Supply Chain

Naomi van der Valk, Lieselot Bisschop and René van Swaaningen

 

Chapter 12. Migrant Workers, Artisanal Gold Mining, and “More-Than-Human” Sousveillance in South Africa’s Closed Gold Mines

                        Matthew Nesvet

 

Chapter 13. Digging into the Mining Subculture: The Dynamics of Trafficking in Persons in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining of Peru’s Madre de Dios

Dolores Cortés-McPherson

 

Part IV. Mining, Corruption, and Money Laundering

 

Chapter 14. Crude Oil’s Ugly Sister: The Political-Criminal Nexus and Corruption inside Nigeria’s Solid Minerals and Mining Sector

Sheelagh Brady

 

Chapter 15. Min(d)ing Corruption in International Investment Arbitration            

Vasilka Sancin and Domen Turšič

 

Chapter 16. All That Glitters: Money Laundering Through Precious Metals and Minerals

                        Yuliya Zabyelina and Lilla Heins

 

Part V. Environmental Harm from Illegal Mining Activities

 

Chapter 17. Prevention of Green Crimes in Informal Gold Mining in Peru: Challenges of Translation of Laws into Practice

                        Johanna Espin

 

Chapter 18. Mining as Ecocide: The Case of Adani and the Carmichael Mine in Australia

                        Olivia Hasler

 

Chapter 19. Environment Does Count: Legal Action against Destructive Mining in Australia

                        Rob White

Index

O autorze

Yuliya Zabyelina is Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, USA.

Daan van Uhm is Assistant Professor in Criminology at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, the Netherlands. 

Blurb

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illegal extraction of metals and minerals from the perspectives of organized crime theory, green criminology, anti-corruption studies, and victimology. It includes contributions that focus on organized crime-related offences, such as drug trafficking and trafficking in persons, extortion, corruption and money laundering and sheds light on the serious environmental harms caused by illegal mining. Based on a wide range of case studies from the Amazon rainforest through the Ukrainian flatlands to the desert-like savanna of Central African Republic and Australia’s elevated plateaus, this book offers a unique insight into the illegal mining business and the complex relationship between organized crime, corruption, and ecocide. This is the first book-length publication on illegal extraction, trafficking in mined commodities, and ecocide associated with mining. It will appeal to scholars working on organized crime and green crime, including criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and legal scholars. Practitioners and the general public may welcome this comprehensive and timely publication to contemplate on resource-scarcity, security, and crime in a rapidly changing world.