Between the Plough and the Pick, Informal; artisanal and small-scale mining in the contemporary world

Year

2018

Publisher

ANU Press

Type

BOOK

Description

Between the Plough and the Pick deepens our understanding of informal, artisanal and small-scale mining, popularly known as ASM. The book engages with wider scholarly conceptualisations of contemporary global social, agrarian and political changes, whilst underlining the roles that local social political-historical contexts play in shaping mineral extractive processes and practices. It shows that the people who are engaged in these mining practices are often the poorest and most exploited labourers-erstwhile peasants caught in the vortex of global change, who perform the most insecure and dangerous tasks. Although these people are located at the margins of mainstream economic life, they collectively produce enormous amounts of diverse material commodities and find a livelihood (and often a pathway out of oppressive poverty). The contributions to this book bring these people to the forefront of debates on resource politics. The contributors are international scholars and practitioners who explore the complexities in the histories, in labour and production practices, the forces driving such mining, the creative agency and capacities of these miners, as well as the human and environmental costs of ASM. They show how these informal, artisanal and small scale miners are inextricably engaged with, or bound to, global commodity values, are intimately involved in the production of new extractive territories and rural economies, and how their labour reshapes agrarian communities and landscapes of resource access and control. This book drives home the understanding that, collectively, this social and economic milieu redefines our conceptualisation of resource politics, mineral dependent livelihoods, extractive geographies of resources and commodities, and their multiple meanings.

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Between the Plough and the Pick, Informal; artisanal and small-scale mining in the contemporary world

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A Chain of Kings

A Chain of Kings

Der Mönch von Salzburg im Interpretationsprofil der Gegenwart

Der Mönch von Salzburg im Interpretationsprofil der Gegenwart

Cold War Triangle

Cold War Triangle

Class Action Dilemmas

Class Action Dilemmas

Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry

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Charms of the Cynical Reason

Charms of the Cynical Reason