The lives of extraction : identities, communities, and the politics of place / edited by Filipe Calvão, Matthew Archer, and Asanda Benya.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calvão, Filipa Urbano, editor.

Archer, Matthew, editor.

Benya, Asanda, editor.

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Series:

International development policy (Brill) ; v. 15.

International development policy, 1663-9383 ; volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development.

Sustainable development--Law and legislation.

Sustainable development.

Mining law.

Mines and mineral resources.

Rural development--Law and legislation.

Rural development.

community development.

Physical Description:

xvii, 295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Nijhoff, [2024]

Summary:

"The frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents. In this, the first of these two volumes, 16 authors offer a critical and nuanced understanding of the social, cultural and political dimensions of extraction. The experiences of communities, indigenous peoples and workers in extractive contexts are deeply shaped by narratives, imaginaries and the complexity of social contexts. These dimensions are crucial to making extraction possible and to sustaining its expansion, but also to identifying possibilities for resistance, and to paving the way for alternative, post-extractive economies. This volume is accompanied by IDP 16, The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures"-- Provided by publisher.

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:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Lives of extraction : identities, communities and the politics of place

ISBN:

9789004538849

9004538844

OCLC:

1401909400