The Lives of Extraction
Identities, Communities and the Politics of Place
Published on 19. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
314 pages
978-90-04-53884-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
This volume is accompanied by IDP 16, The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-53884-9 (9789004538849)
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Persons
Filipe Calvao is an economic and environmental anthropologist. He is an associate professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His research examines the politics, ecologies and economies of mineral extraction, with a current focus on the nexus between digitalization, work and extractivism.
Matthew Archer studies corporate sustainability, sustainable finance and sustainable development through the lens of political ecology and environmental anthropology. He is currently a lecturer in sustainability in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York.
Asanda Benya is a labour sociologist based at the University of Cape Town. She works at the intersection of gender, class and race. She researches the extractives industries, gendered workplace subjectivities, labour and feminist movements.
Matthew Archer studies corporate sustainability, sustainable finance and sustainable development through the lens of political ecology and environmental anthropology. He is currently a lecturer in sustainability in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York.
Asanda Benya is a labour sociologist based at the University of Cape Town. She works at the intersection of gender, class and race. She researches the extractives industries, gendered workplace subjectivities, labour and feminist movements.
Content
Preface
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1?Introduction: Global Lives of Extraction
??Filipe? ?Calv?a?o??, ??Matthew? ?Archer?? and ??Asanda? ?Benya?????
Part 1?
Community, Labout and Social Life?
2?Migrants and the Politics of Presence on the South African Platinum Mining Belt
??Melusi? ?Nkomo?????
3?Chromite Mining Cooperatives, Tribute Mining Contracts, and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 1985-2021
??Joseph? ?Mujere?????
4?'Le fleau de la soude caustique': Bauxite Refining, Social Reproduction, and the Role of Women's Promotion Groups
??Luisa? ?Lupo?????
5?Time for an Outcome Evaluation? The Experience of Indigenous Communities with Mining Benefit Sharing Agreements
??Liz? ?Wall?? and ??Fiona Haslam? ?McKenzie??????
Part 2?
Scales of Space and Time?
6?Struggles over Resource Decentralisation: Legislative Reform, Corporate Resistance and Canadian Aid Partnerships in Burkina Faso
??Diana? ?Ayeh?????
7?The Promise of Gold: Gold and Governance in China's Borderlands, Then and Now
??Eveline? ?Bingaman?????
8?Spaces of Extraction in Europe: the Corporate-State-Mining Complex and Resistance in Greece and Romania
??Konstantinos (Kostas)? ?Petrakos?????
9?Muddled Times: Temporality and Gold Mining in Colombia and Venezuela
??Jesse? ?Jonkman?? and ??Eva? ?van Roekel??????
Part 3?
Extractive Frontiers: Narratives and Discourses?
10?Exploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian Andes
??Anneloes? ?Hoff?????
11?(Im)mobility Economies: Extractivism of the Refugee as a Human Commodity
??Julia C.? ?Morris?????
12?Anti-extractive Rumouring in the Russian North-East
??Sardana? ?Nikolaeva??????
Index
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1?Introduction: Global Lives of Extraction
??Filipe? ?Calv?a?o??, ??Matthew? ?Archer?? and ??Asanda? ?Benya?????
Part 1?
Community, Labout and Social Life?
2?Migrants and the Politics of Presence on the South African Platinum Mining Belt
??Melusi? ?Nkomo?????
3?Chromite Mining Cooperatives, Tribute Mining Contracts, and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 1985-2021
??Joseph? ?Mujere?????
4?'Le fleau de la soude caustique': Bauxite Refining, Social Reproduction, and the Role of Women's Promotion Groups
??Luisa? ?Lupo?????
5?Time for an Outcome Evaluation? The Experience of Indigenous Communities with Mining Benefit Sharing Agreements
??Liz? ?Wall?? and ??Fiona Haslam? ?McKenzie??????
Part 2?
Scales of Space and Time?
6?Struggles over Resource Decentralisation: Legislative Reform, Corporate Resistance and Canadian Aid Partnerships in Burkina Faso
??Diana? ?Ayeh?????
7?The Promise of Gold: Gold and Governance in China's Borderlands, Then and Now
??Eveline? ?Bingaman?????
8?Spaces of Extraction in Europe: the Corporate-State-Mining Complex and Resistance in Greece and Romania
??Konstantinos (Kostas)? ?Petrakos?????
9?Muddled Times: Temporality and Gold Mining in Colombia and Venezuela
??Jesse? ?Jonkman?? and ??Eva? ?van Roekel??????
Part 3?
Extractive Frontiers: Narratives and Discourses?
10?Exploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian Andes
??Anneloes? ?Hoff?????
11?(Im)mobility Economies: Extractivism of the Refugee as a Human Commodity
??Julia C.? ?Morris?????
12?Anti-extractive Rumouring in the Russian North-East
??Sardana? ?Nikolaeva??????
Index