The frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents. In this, the first of these two volumes, 16 authors offer a critical and nuanced understanding of the social, cultural and political dimensions of extraction. The experiences of communities, indigenous peoples and workers in extractive contexts are deeply shaped by narratives, imaginaries and the complexity of social contexts. These dimensions are crucial to making extraction possible and to sustaining its expansion, but also to identifying possibilities for resistance, and to paving the way for alternative, post-extractive economies.
This volume is accompanied by IDP 16, The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures.
Volume editor:
Filipe Calvão,
Matthew Archer,
Asanda Benya
Imprint: Martinus Nijhoff
Volume: 15
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 535g
ISBN: 9789004538849
ISBN 10: 9004538844
Series: International Development Policy
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Global Lives of Extraction Filipe Calvão, Matthew Archer and Asanda Benya Part 1 Community, Labout and Social Life 2 Migrants and the Politics of Presence on the South African Platinum Mining Belt Melusi Nkomo 3 Chromite Mining Cooperatives, Tribute Mining Contracts, and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 1985–2021 Joseph Mujere 4 ‘Le fléau de la soude caustique’: Bauxite Refining, Social Reproduction, and the Role of Women’s Promotion Groups Luisa Lupo 5 Time for an Outcome Evaluation? The Experience of Indigenous Communities with Mining Benefit Sharing Agreements Liz Wall and Fiona Haslam McKenzie Part 2 Scales of Space and Time 6 Struggles over Resource Decentralisation: Legislative Reform, Corporate Resistance and Canadian Aid Partnerships in Burkina Faso Diana Ayeh 7 The Promise of Gold: Gold and Governance in China’s Borderlands, Then and Now Eveline Bingaman 8 Spaces of Extraction in Europe: the Corporate–State–Mining Complex and Resistance in Greece and Romania Konstantinos (Kostas) Petrakos 9 Muddled Times: Temporality and Gold Mining in Colombia and Venezuela Jesse Jonkman and Eva van Roekel Part 3 Extractive Frontiers: Narratives and Discourses 10 Exploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian Andes Anneloes Hoff 11 (Im)mobility Economies: Extractivism of the Refugee as a Human Commodity Julia C. Morris 12 Anti-extractive Rumouring in the Russian North-East Sardana Nikolaeva Index
Filipe Calvão is an economic and environmental anthropologist. He is an associate professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His research examines the politics, ecologies and economies of mineral extraction, with a current focus on the nexus between digitalization, work and extractivism. Matthew Archer studies corporate sustainability, sustainable finance and sustainable development through the lens of political ecology and environmental anthropology. He is currently a lecturer in sustainability in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. Asanda Benya is a labour sociologist based at the University of Cape Town. She works at the intersection of gender, class and race. She researches the extractives industries, gendered workplace subjectivities, labour and feminist movements.
