This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change.
This collection centers the concept of mobility to address the diversity of mining-related population movements as well as the agency of people engaged in these movements. This volume opens by introducing both the historical context and conceptual tools for analyzing the mining-mobility nexus, followed by case study chapters focusing on three regions with significant histories of mineral extraction and where mining currently plays an important role in socio-economic life: the Andes, Central and West Africa, and Melanesia. Written by authors with expertise in diverse fields, including anthropology, development studies, geography, and history, case study chapters address areas of both large- and smallscale mining. They explore the historical-geographical factors shaping mining-related mobilities, the meanings people attach to these movements, and the relations between peoples mobility practices and the flows of other things put in motion by mining, including capital, ideas, technologies, and toxic contamination. The result is an important volume that provides fresh insights into the social geographies and spatial politics of extraction.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and the extractive industries, spatial politics and geography, mobility and migration, development, and the social and environmental dimensions of natural resources more generally.
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1 An Introduction to Mining, Mobility, and Social Change
Matthew Himley, David Brereton, and Gerardo Castillo Guzmįn
SECTION I
The Andes
2 Chixi Mobilities: Small-Scale Mining and Indigenous Autonomy
in the Bolivian Tin Belt
Andrea Marston
3 Mining, Infrastructure, and Mobility in the Andes
Gerardo Damonte, Julieta Godfrid, and Ana Paula López
4 Navigating Gendered Landscapes of Mineral Extraction: Spatial Mobility,
Womens Autonomy, and Mining Development in the Peruvian Andes
Gerardo Castillo Guzmįn
SECTION II
Central and West Africa
5 Chasing Gold: Technology, People, and Matter on the Move in
Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Philippe Dunia Kabunga, Simon Marijsse, and Sara Geenen
6 Making Mining Localities: Trajectories and Stories of Mining and
Mobility in Zambia
Patience Mususa and Iva Pea
7 The Governance of ASGM in Guinea and Cōte dIvoire: (Im)mobility,
Territory, and Technological Change
Anna Dessertine, Robin Petit-Roulet, Muriel Champy, and Ibrahima Kalil
Doumbouya
SECTION III
Melanesia
8 Mining-Induced In-Migration in Papua New Guinea
Glenn Banks and Tobias Schwörer
9 Mining Fronts, Labor Mobilities, and the Construction of Locality
in Thio, New Caledonia
Pierre-Yves Le Meur
10 Beyond the Enclave: Workforce Mobility and Livelihoods in a
New Caledonia Mining Region
Séverine Bouard and Valentine Boudjema
SECTION IV
Conclusion
11 Mining and Mobility: Key Insights, Governance Implications, and Future
Research
David Brereton, Gerardo Castillo Guzmįn, and Matthew Himley
Gerardo Castillo Guzmįn is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perś (PUCP), Peru. He is Coordinator of the Anthropology of the City Research Group at PUCP and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queenslands Sustainable Minerals Institute, Australia.
Matthew Himley is Professor of Geography at Illinois State University, USA. He is a naturesociety geographer with research interests in the political ecology and political economy of resource industries, especially in the Andean region of South America. He is Co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography (Routledge, 2021).
David Brereton is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he was Foundation Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining. Since retiring from the University in 2016, he has continued to undertake research and advisory work focused on improving corporate social performance in the global mining sector.
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