Mines, communities, and states : the local politics of natural resource extraction in Africa / Jessica Steinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinberg, Jessica, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mines and mineral resources--Africa.

Mines and mineral resources.

Mineral industries--Government policy--Africa.

Mineral industries.

Mineral industries--Social aspects--Africa.

Economic development projects--Africa--International cooperation.

Economic development projects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

When do local communities benefit from natural resource extraction? In some regions of natural resource extraction, firms provide goods and services to local communities, but in others, protest may occur, leading to government regulatory or repressive intervention. Mines, Communities, and States explores these outcomes in Africa, where natural resource extraction is a particularly important source of revenue for states with otherwise limited capacity. Blending a mixture of methodological approaches, including formal modelling, structured case comparison, and quantitative geo-spatial empirical analysis, it argues that local populations are important actors in extractive regions because they have the potential to impose political and economic costs on the state as well as the extractive firm. Jessica Steinberg argues that governments, in turn, must assess the economic benefits of extraction and the value of political support in the region, and make a calculation about how to manage trade-offs that might arise between these alternatives.

Contents:

Introduction

The local politics of natural resource extraction: a theory

A logic of governance

Model: a (more) formal logic

Local politics on the ground

On comparative case analysis

Two firms, one country: coal in Tete, Mozambique

Two countries, one firm: mining the copperbelt in Zambia and DRC

Comparative implications

Beyond Mozambique, Zambia and DRC

Generalizing the theory

On social mobilization near mines

On repression near mines

Conclusion: What next?.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-75280-2

1-108-75830-4

1-108-63817-1