1st Edition
Mining and Social Transformation in Africa Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production
Edited By Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Eleanor Fisher, Jesper Bosse Jønsson, Rosemarie Mwaipopo
Copyright 2014
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the booming international market for minerals. Spurred by the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have been engaged in a massive search for alternative livelihoods, one of the most lucrative being artisanal mining.
While a burgeoning... Read more
1. Introduction: Africa's New Mining Era and the Rise of an Artisanal Mining Social Practice Part 1: Miners' Agency and Social Relations 2. Going for Gold: Miners' Mobility and Motivation 3. Pursuing an Artisanal Mining Career: Downwards to Success 4. Loosely-woven Love: Sexuality and Wifestyles in Gold-Mining Settlements 5. Beyond Belief: Mining, Magic and Murder in Sukumaland Part 2: Mining Communities and Social Organizational Constructs 6. Property, Kin and the Social in Neoliberal Artisanal Mining 7. Ubeshi: Negotiating Artisanal and Large-scale Co-existence in Diamond Mining Part 3: Environmental, Trade, Regulatory and Development Policy Issues 8. Hazards of the Trade: Occupational and Environmental Adversities of Artisanal Mining 9. Handling Uncertainty: Policy and Practice Among Artisanal Gold Miners 10. The Ethical Turn in Artisanal Mining Policy: Issues and Implications for Fairtrade Gold 11. The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment: What Future for Artisanal Mining? Part 4: Conclusion 12. Artisanal Miners as a New Social Force
Biography
Deborah Fahy Bryceson is a Reader at the Geographical and Earth Sciences School of the University of Glasgow.
Eleanor Fisher is Senior Lecturer in International Development at Swansea University.
Jesper Bosse Jønsson works as Research Fellow at the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
Rosemarie Mwaipopo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
