The Global Life of Mines : Mining and Post-Mining in Comparative Perspective.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pusceddu, Antonio Maria.

Contributor:

Zerilli, Filippo M.

Series:

Dislocations Series

Dislocations Series ; v.37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abandoned mines--Social aspects.

Abandoned mines.

Industrial archaeology.

Mineral industries--Social aspects.

Mineral industries.

Mines and mineral resources--History.

Mines and mineral resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2024.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "The Global Life of Mines".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction. Timescapes of Extraction

Chapter 1. Frontier Spaces in the Arctic and the Andes: The Miner, the Smuggler and Performances of (Post-)Extractivism

Chapter 2. Technological Promises of ‘Green’ Extractivism in Historical Minescapes: Narratives and Materiality of the Mining Revival in Andalusian Wastelands

Chapter 3. Unearthing the Buried Past of Brazil’s Former Gold Mines

Chapter 4. How Industrial and Artisanal Extraction Shape a City: On Urban Planning Flaws, Encroaching Open Pits and Backyard Mining in a Congolese Mining Town

Chapter 5. Mining Life Cycles and Indigenous Land Dispossession in North America: A View from the American West

Chapter 6. Contentious Legacies: Post-Mining and Heritage-Making in the Italian Alps

Chapter 7. Uranium Mining in New Mexico: Global Entanglements, Earth Relations and Awkward Ways

Afterword. What’s to Come: Mining in a Fevered World

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781805395928

1805395920

9781805395935

1805395939

OCLC:

1453421270