Shifting livelihoods : gold mining and subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia / Daniel Tubb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tubb, Daniel, author.

Series:

Culture, place, and nature

Culture, place, and nature : studies in anthropology and Environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gold miners--Colombia--Choc--Social conditions.

Gold miners.

Gold mines and mining--Social aspects--Colombia--Chocó.

Gold mines and mining.

Informal sector (Economics)--Colombia--Chocó.

Informal sector (Economics).

Gold mines and mining--Social aspects.

Social conditions.

Chocó (Colombia)--Social conditions.

Chocó (Colombia).

Chocó (Colombia)--Economic conditions.

Economic history.

Gold miners--Social conditions.

Colombia.

Choc.

Colombia--Chocó.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]

Summary:

"People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining companies prospect for open-pit mega-mines. Drug traffickers launder cocaine profits by smuggling gold into Colombia and claiming it came from fictitious small-scale mines. Through an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, Shifting Livelihoods investigates how resource extraction reshapes a place. In the Chocó, gold enables forms of "shift" (Colombian: rebusque)-a metaphor for the fluid livelihood strategy adopted by forest dwellers and migrant gold miners alike as they seek informal work amid a drug war. Mining's effects on rural people, corporations, and politics are on view in this fine-grained account of daily life in a regional economy dominated by gold and cocaine"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Gold and the household

Gold and cash

Family mines and small-scale mining

Rebusque on the precarious periphery

Simulated extraction and gold based-money laundering

Speculative projects and multinational mines

Conclusion. Life after the gold rush.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Tubb, Daniel Gold in the Chocó, Colombia Shifting livelihoods

ISBN:

9780295747521

0295747528

9780295747538

0295747536

OCLC:

1129151510