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.
Diana Ayeh
is a researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (ufz) in Leipzig (Germany). She was recently associated as a fellow at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (miasa) in Accra (Ghana) where she worked on mine closure in Burkina Faso and Guinea. From 2016 to 2019, she was a member of the Collaborative Research Centre (sfb) 1199 Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition at Leipzig University where she completed her PhD, on industrial gold mining and corporate responsibility in Burkina Faso. Her current research focuses on temporalities of extraction and citizen science approaches in West African and German (post-)mining regions. She is particularly interested in studying the enactments of global ideas of ‘responsible mining’ from an ethnographic lens.
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.
Eveline Bingaman
has been conducting field research among Naxi communities in south-west China since 2001. Her research interests include cultural tourism and rural development, and kinship, friendship, and ethnicity studies. Her dissertation focused on Gelug Tibetan monastic governance of non-Tibetan communities and how taxation and monk levy policies impacted the kinship practices and structure of one Naxi community.
Filipe Calvão
is an economic and environmental anthropologist broadly interested in the intersection of nature, culture and capital in postcolonial Africa. He is an associate professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development
Anneloes Hoff
is an anthropologist with over six years of experience researching corporate social responsibility in the mining sector, with a focus on Colombia and the polarised dynamics between mining corporations and anti-mining movements. She is broadly interested in the ways corporations engage with new movements, discourses, and norms of corporate responsibility, in particular the business and human rights movement. Her contribution to this thematic volume is based on research she conducted for her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford (UK).
Jesse Jonkman
is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Brunswick, as well as at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His work explores issues of resource extraction, governance, state formation, infrastructure and cultural rights in Colombia.
Luisa Lupo
is a doctoral researcher in International Relations/Political Science and a researcher at the Gender Centre for the project Gendering Survival from the Margins at the Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland). Her PhD dissertation examines the relations of production and social reproduction that constitute the economy in which we labour and live, through an on-the-ground study of work and daily life at the intersection of cotton agriculture and apparel in Turkey. Her research interests include issues related to gender, social reproduction and the everyday lives of households, as well as rights and contestations in global supply chains and production networks.
Fiona Haslam McKenzie
is a professor at and the co-lead of the Centre for Regional Development at the University of Western Australia and Program Leader Regional Economic Development for crc Transformations in Mining Economies. She has expertise in regional economic development with a particular interest in mining and resources.
is an assistant professor of International Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is a political anthropologist and migration studies scholar whose research focuses on the commodification of human mobility. Her work examines the postcolonial overlaps of resource extractive sectors centred on migrants and commodities, extending to an upcoming project on conservation strategies in frontier development. Her book Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru is forthcoming with Cornell University Press.
Joseph Mujere
is a lecturer in History at the University of York (UK) and a research fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa). His research interests include mining and environmental history, land, migration, and the politics of belonging, as well as visual history. He published his first book in 2019, titled: Land, Migration and Belonging: A History of Basotho in Southern Rhodesia c.1890–1960s (Suffolk: James Currey, 2019).
Sardana Nikolaeva
is a postdoctoral fellow with the Indigenous Politics Collaboratory of the University of Toronto (Canada). She received her ba in Linguistics from the Sakha State University (Sakha Republic, Russian Federation), an ma in Africana Studies from the suny at Albany (USA), a PhD in Social and Comparative Analysis in Education from the University of Pittsburgh (USA), and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Manitoba (Canada). Her research interests include Indigenous activisms, Indigenous feminisms, extractivism, and the post/Soviet Indigenous Arctic.
Melusi Nkomo
is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Political Geography Unit of the Geography Institute at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). His research focuses on the intersection of labour, culture and politics in southern African societies.
Konstantinos (Kostas) Petrakos
holds a PhD from the National Technical University of Athens and has over five years of research experience in various European projects focusing on urban, regional, and marine spatial planning, the environment, infrastructure, and the circular economy. His PhD thesis focused on extractivism and
Eva van Roekel
is an assistant professor in Cultural Anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and specialises in conflict, morality, human rights and natural resources in Latin America. She is author of the monograph Phenomenal Justice. Violence and Morality in Argentina. Her current work focuses on the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis, transnational crime and natural resource extraction.
Liz Wall
is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia and an independent social practitioner in the mining industry. She has more than 20 years’ experience working on social issues connected to mining projects in over 40 countries, focusing on benefit sharing, development contribution, Indigenous peoples and mine closure.