Mining and Social Transformation in Africa

Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production
Herausgeber: Bryceson, Deborah Fahy; Mwaipopo, Rosemarie; Jønsson, Jesper Bosse; Fisher, Eleanor

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Produktbeschreibung

While an expanding literature has documented the economic upsurge of artisanal mining, this book is the first to explore its societal impact in detail. It demonstrates that, as a mode of mineral production, artisanal mining has the potential to be far more democratic and emancipating than preceding modes. It explores the paradoxes of this mode of mineral production alongside the expansion of large-scale mining investment in Africa, focussing on the Tanzanian experience. It considers how artisanal mining is configured in relation to local, regional and national mining investments, wealth accumulation and social class differentiation emanating from it. It focuses on work lives, mobility, and associated lifestyles of miners and people in mining settlements, asking where this historical interlude is taking them, their communities and countries in the future. The question of value transfers out of the artisanal mining sector, value capture by elites and changing configurations of gender, age and class differentiation all arise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415833707
• ISBN-10: 0415833701
• Artikelnr.: 37728178

Autorenporträt

Deborah Fahy Bryceson as a Reader at the Geographical and Earth Sciences School of the University of Glasgow. Eleanor Fisher is Associate Professor in International Rural Development at the University of Reading. Jesper Bosse Jønsson is Head of Development Planning and Environment for COWI Tanzania. Rosemarie Mwaipopo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mineralizing Africa and Artisanal Mining's Democratizing Influence,
Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Jesper Bosse Jønsson Part I: Miners' Agency and
Social Relations 2. Going for Gold: Miners' Mobility and Motivation,
Jesper Bosse Jønsson and Deborah Fahy Bryceson 3. Pursuing an Artisanal
Mining Career: Downward Success, Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Jesper Bosse
Jønsson 4. Loosely-woven Love: Sexuality and Wifestyles in Gold-mining
Settlements, Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Jesper Bosse Jønsson and Hannelore
Verbrugge 5. The Creativity of Action: Property, Kin and the Social in
African Artisanal Mining, Eleanor Fisher and Rose Mwaipopo 6. Beyond
Belief: Mining, Magic and Murder in Sukumaland, Deborah Fahy Bryceson,
Jesper Bosse Jønsson and Richard Sherrington Part II: Mining Communities,
Organizational Constructs and Policy 7. Dealing with Ambiguity: Policy and
Practice among Artisanal Gold Miners, Jesper Bosse Jønsson and Niels Fold
8. An Ethical Turn in African Mining: Voluntary Regulation through Fair
Trade, Eleanor Fisher and John Childs 9. The Politics of Mining: Foreign
Direct Investment, the State and Artisanal Mining in Tanzania, France
Bourgouin 10. Ubeshi - Negotiating Co-existence: Artisanal and Large-scale
in Diamond Mining, Rose Mwaipopo Part III: What Future for Artisanal
Mining? 11. Artisanal Mining's Democratizing Directions and Deviations,
Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Eleanor Fisher