Mining and Social Transformation in Africa : Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production Paperback / softback
Edited by Deborah Fahy (University of Glasgow, Scotland) Bryceson, Eleanor Fisher, Jesper Bosse (Glasgow University) Jønsson, Rosemarie Mwaipopo
Part of the Routledge Studies in Development and Society series
Paperback / softback
Description
After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the booming international market for minerals.
Spurred by the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have been engaged in a massive search for alternative livelihoods, one of the most lucrative being artisanal mining.
While a burgeoning literature is acknowledging the spread of artisanal mining, this book is the first to probe its societal impact and potential for extending economic opportunity and participatory forms of democracy. Delineating the paradoxes of artisanal miners working alongside the expansion of large-scale mining investment in Africa, Mining and Social Transformation in Africa concentrates on the Tanzanian experience.
Written by authors with fresh research insights, focus is placed on how artisanal mining is configured in relation to local, regional and national mining investments and social class differentiation.
The work lives and associated lifestyles of miners and residents of mining settlements are brought to the fore, asking where this historical interlude is taking them and their communities in the future.
The question of value transfers out of the artisanal mining sector, value capture by elites and changing configurations of gender, age and class differentiation, all arise.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:28/04/2014
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- ISBN:9780415709729
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:28/04/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415709729