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Between the plough and the pick : informal, artisanal and small-scale mining in the contemporary world /

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-poli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Australian National University Press
Otros Autores: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reframing the debate on informal mining / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
  • Section One: Historical antecedents and value-making. Artisanal gold-rush mining and frontier democracy: Juxtaposing experiences in America, Australia, Africa and Asia / Deborah Fahy Bryceson
  • Tanzanite: Commodity fiction or commodity nightmare? / Katherine C. Donahue
  • Agrarian distress and gemstone mining in India: The political economy of survival / Arnab Roy Chowdhury and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
  • The social ecology of artisanal mining: Between romanticisation and anathema / Saleem H. Ali
  • Section Two: Precarious and gendered labour. Theorising transit labour in informal mineral extraction processes / Ranabir Samaddar
  • A good business or a risky business: Health, safety and quality of life for women small-scale miners in PNG / Danielle Lynas
  • Rice, sapphires and cattle: Work lives of women artisanal and small-scale miners in Madagascar / Lynda Lawson
  • Is it possible to integrate health and safety risk management into mechanised gold processing? A methodology for artisanal and small-scale mining communities in the Philippines / Gernelyn Logrosa, Maureen Hassall, David Cliff and Carmel Bofinger
  • Resources and resourcefulness: Gender, human rights and resilience in artisanal mining towns of eastern Congo / Rachel Perks, Jocelyn Kelly, Stacie Constantian and Phuong Pham
  • Section Three: Conflicts and governance. Historical trajectory of gold-mining in the Nilgiri-Wayanad region of India / Amalendu Jyotishi, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Sashi Sivramkrishna
  • Conflicts in marginal locations: Small-scale gold-mining in the Amazon / Marjo de Theije and Ton Salman
  • Small-scale gold-mining: Opportunities and risks in post-conflict Colombia / Alexandra Urán
  • Muddy rivers and toxic flows: Risks and impacts of artisanal gold-mining in the riverine catchments of Bombana, Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesia) / Sara Beavis and Andrew McWilliam
  • Artisanal and small-scale mining governance: The 'emerging issue' of 'unregulated mining' in Lao PDR / Daniele Moretti and Nicholas Garrett
  • Reassembling informal gold-mining for development and sustainability? Opportunities and limits to formalisation in India, Indonesia and Laos / Keith Barney.