Full Description
Resource extraction exists in diverse settings across the world and is carried out through different practices. The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as interrelated and coexisting features within the global minescape. The book brings together scholars from various fields, such as anthropology, geography, sociology and political science, examining ethnographic case studies throughout the Americas (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, USA), Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Europe (Italy, Arctic Norway and Spain).
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Timescapes of Extraction
Antonio Maria Pusceddu and Filippo M. Zerilli
Chapter 1. Frontier Spaces in the Arctic and the Andes: The Miner, the Smuggler and Performances of (Post)extractivism
Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard
*This chapter is is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the University of Bergen
Chapter 2. Technological Promises of 'Green' Extractivism in Historical Minescapes: Narratives and Materiality of Mining Revival in Andalusian Wastelands
Doris Buu-Sao
Chapter 3. Unearthing the Buried Past of Brazil's Former Gold Mines
Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos
Chapter 4. How Industrial and Artisanal Extraction Shape a City: On Urban Planning Flaws, Encroaching Open Pits and Backyard Mining in a Congolese Mining Town
Kristien Geenen
Chapter 5. Mining Life Cycles and Indigenous Land Dispossession in North America: A View from the American West
Paul White
Chapter 6. Contentious Legacies: Post-Mining and Heritage-Making in the Italian Alps
Roberta Clara Zanini
Chapter 7. Uranium Mining in New Mexico: Global Entanglements, Earth Relations, and Awkward Ways
Targol Mesbah
Afterword: What's to Come: Mining in a Fevered World
David Kideckel
