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Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Critical Approaches book cover

1st Edition

Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Critical Approaches

Edited By Chris Huggins Copyright 2019
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge
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Disputes and dispossession of property rights in the mining sector are causes of injustice, violence, and forced resettlement around the world. This comprehensive volume examines mining, particularly what is often called ‘Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining’, from a perspective of governance and rights. It focuses on rights to land, natural resources, and other forms of material ‘property’. Many... Read more

1. Introduction: Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM): critical approaches to property rights and governance

Chris Huggins

2. Revisiting the interconnections between research strategies and policy proposals: reflections from the artisanal and small-scale mining sector in Africa

Bonnie Campbell

3. The politics of artisanal and small-scale mining in Mongolia

Pascale Hatcher

4. Property rights and large-scale mining: overlapping claims at and around mining sites at the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia

Sarah Katz-Lavigne

5. ‘Custom’ and fractured ‘community’: mining, property disputes and law on the platinum belt, South Africa

Sonwabile Mnwana

6. Disputes over gold mining and dispossession of local afrodescendant communities from the Alto Cauca, Colombia

Irene Vélez-Torres

7. Different faces of access control in a Congolese gold mine

Sara Geenen & Klara Claessens

8. Artisanal gold mining in Kejetia (Tongo, Northern Ghana): a three-dimensional perspective

Esther van de Camp

Biography

Chris Huggins is Assistant Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses on the political economy of natural resource management in Africa. He is author of Agricultural Reform in Rwanda: Authoritarianism, Markets and Zones of Governance (2017).

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