The Lives of Extraction : : Identities, Communities and the Politics of Place.

• Superior document: International Development Policy Series ; v.15
• Author: Calvão, Filipe.
• TeilnehmendeR: Archer, Matthew.; Benya, Asanda.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: International Development Policy Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 pages)

This volume offers new perspectives from five continents on the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with critical and nuanced analyses of the social, cultural and political dimensions of extraction. It also explores the narratives and imaginaries that underpin extractive activities as well...

Table of Contents

• Migrants and the politics of presence on the South African platinum mining belt / Melusi Nkomo
• Chromite mining cooperatives, tribute mining contracts, and rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 1985-2021 / Joseph Mujere
• 'Le fléau de la soude caustique' : Bauxite refining, social reproduction, and the role of women's promotion groups / Luisa Lupo
• Time for an outcome evaluation? the experience of indigenous communities with mining benefit sharing agreements / Liz Wall and Fiona Haslam McKenzie
• Struggles over resource decentralisation : legislative reform, corporate resistance, and Canadian aid partnerships in Burkina Faso / Diana Ayeh
• The promise of gold : gold and governance in China's borderlands, then and now / Eveline Bingaman
• Spaces of extraction in Europe : the corporate-state-mining complex and resistance in Greece and Romania / Konstantinos (Kostas) Petrakos
• Muddled times : temporality and gold mining in Colombia and Venezuela / Jesse Jonkman and Eva van Roekel
• Exploration, storytelling, and frontier-making in the Colombian Andes / Anneloes Hoff
• (Im)mobility economies : extractivism of the refugee as a human commodity / Julia C. Morris
• Anti-extractive rumouring in the Russian North-East / Sardana Nikolaeva.