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1 online resource (232 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Development and Society |
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Routledge studies in development and society.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Mineralizing Africa and artisanal mining's democratizing influence; PART I Miners' agency and social relations; 2 Going for gold: Miners' mobility and mining motivation; 3 Pursuing an artisanal mining career: Downward success; 4 Loosely woven love: Sexuality and wifestyles in gold-mining settlements; 5 The creativity of action: Property, kin and the social in African artisanal mining; 6 Beyond belief: Mining, magic and murder in Sukumaland |
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PART II Mining communities, organizational constructs and policy7 Dealing with ambiguity: Policy and practice among artisanal gold miners; 8 An ethical turn in African mining: Voluntary regulation through fair trade; 9 The politics of mining: Foreign direct investment, the state and artisanal mining in Tanzania; 10 Ubeshi -- Negotiating co-existence: Artisanal and large-scale relations in diamond mining; PART III What future for artisanal mining?; 11 Artisanal mining's democratizing directions and deviations; Appendices; Index |
| Summary |
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 an expanding literature has documented the economic expansion of artisanal mining, this book is the first to probe its societal impact, demonstrating that artisanal mining has the potential to be far more dem |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fisher, Eleanor
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Jønsson, Jesper Bosse
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Mwaipopo, Rosemarie
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| ISBN |
9781135051983 |
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1135051984 |
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