Full Description
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.
Contents
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
