The Lives of Extraction : Identities, Communities and the Politics of Place / Filipe Calvão, Matthew Archer, and Asanda Benya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calvão, Filipe, author.

Archer, Matthew, author.

Benya, Asanda, author.

Series:

International development policy ; Volume 15.

International Development Policy ; Volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development.

Sustainable development--Law and legislation.

Sustainable development.

Mining law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2024]

Summary:

This volume offers new perspectives from five continents on the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with critical and nuanced analyses of the social, cultural and political dimensions of extraction. It also explores the narratives and imaginaries that underpin extractive activities as well as resistance to them.

Contents:

Migrants and the politics of presence on the South African platinum mining belt / Melusi Nkomo

Chromite mining cooperatives, tribute mining contracts, and rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 1985-2021 / Joseph Mujere

'Le fléau de la soude caustique' : Bauxite refining, social reproduction, and the role of women's promotion groups / Luisa Lupo

Time for an outcome evaluation? the experience of indigenous communities with mining benefit sharing agreements / Liz Wall and Fiona Haslam McKenzie

Struggles over resource decentralisation : legislative reform, corporate resistance, and Canadian aid partnerships in Burkina Faso / Diana Ayeh

The promise of gold : gold and governance in China's borderlands, then and now / Eveline Bingaman

Spaces of extraction in Europe : the corporate-state-mining complex and resistance in Greece and Romania / Konstantinos (Kostas) Petrakos

Muddled times : temporality and gold mining in Colombia and Venezuela / Jesse Jonkman and Eva van Roekel

Exploration, storytelling, and frontier-making in the Colombian Andes / Anneloes Hoff

(Im)mobility economies : extractivism of the refugee as a human commodity / Julia C. Morris

Anti-extractive rumouring in the Russian North-East / Sardana Nikolaeva.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004685994

9004685995