Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South

Regional Perspectives
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-32179-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development

This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change.

This collection centers the concept of mobility to address the diversity of mining-related population movements as well as the agency of people engaged in these movements. This volume opens by introducing both the historical context and conceptual tools for analyzing the mining-mobility nexus, followed by case study chapters focusing on three regions with significant histories of mineral extraction and where mining currently plays an important role in socio-economic life: the Andes, Central and West Africa, and Melanesia. Written by authors with expertise in diverse fields, including anthropology, development studies, geography, and history, case study chapters address areas of both large- and smallscale mining. They explore the historical-geographical factors shaping mining-related mobilities, the meanings people attach to these movements, and the relations between people’s mobility practices and the flows of other things put in motion by mining, including capital, ideas, technologies, and toxic contamination. The result is an important volume that provides fresh insights into the social geographies and spatial politics of extraction.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and the extractive industries, spatial politics and geography, mobility and migration, development, and the social and environmental dimensions of natural resources more generally.

Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guzmán, Gerardo Castillo

Himley, Matthew

Brereton, David

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Bergbau, Hüttenwesen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1          An Introduction to Mining, Mobility, and Social Change                                    

            Matthew Himley, David Brereton, and Gerardo Castillo Guzmán

 

 

SECTION I

The Andes                                                                                                                              

 

2          Ch’ixi Mobilities: Small-Scale Mining and Indigenous Autonomy

in the Bolivian Tin Belt                                                                                    

Andrea Marston

 

3          Mining, Infrastructure, and Mobility in the Andes

            Gerardo Damonte, Julieta Godfrid, and Ana Paula López

 

4          Navigating Gendered Landscapes of Mineral Extraction: Spatial Mobility,

Women’s Autonomy, and Mining Development in the Peruvian Andes              

Gerardo Castillo Guzmán

 

 

SECTION II

Central and West Africa                                                                                                        

 

5          Chasing Gold: Technology, People, and Matter on the Move in

Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo                                                                    

Philippe Dunia Kabunga, Simon Marijsse, and Sara Geenen

 

6          Making Mining Localities: Trajectories and Stories of Mining and

Mobility in Zambia                                                                                                      

Patience Mususa and Iva Peša

 

7          The Governance of ASGM in Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire: (Im)mobility,

Territory, and Technological Change                                                                             

Anna Dessertine, Robin Petit-Roulet, Muriel Champy, and Ibrahima Kalil Doumbouya

 

 

SECTION III

Melanesia

 

8          Mining-Induced In-Migration in Papua New Guinea                                                      

Glenn Banks and Tobias Schwörer

 

9          Mining Fronts, Labor Mobilities, and the Construction of Locality

in Thio, New Caledonia                                                                                    

Pierre-Yves Le Meur

 

10        Beyond the Enclave: Workforce Mobility and Livelihoods in a

New Caledonia Mining Region                                                                         

Séverine Bouard and Valentine Boudjema

 

 

SECTION IV

Conclusion

 

11        Mining and Mobility: Key Insights, Governance Implications, and Future Research             

David Brereton, Gerardo Castillo Guzmán, and Matthew Himley

Über Autor(innen)

Gerardo Castillo Guzmán is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Peru. He is Coordinator of the Anthropology of the City Research Group at PUCP and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute, Australia.

Matthew Himley is Professor of Geography at Illinois State University, USA. He is a nature–society geographer with research interests in the political ecology and political economy of resource industries, especially in the Andean region of South America. He is Co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography (Routledge, 2021).

David Brereton is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he was Foundation Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining. Since retiring from the University in 2016, he has continued to undertake research and advisory work focused on improving corporate social performance in the global mining sector.