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The Lives of Extraction
Identities, Communities and the Politics of Place
Series: - International Development Policy, Volume: 15
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.
This volume is accompanied by IDP 16, The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures.
Filipe Calvão is an economic and environmental anthropologist. He is an associate professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His research examines the politics, ecologies and economies of mineral extraction, with a current focus on the nexus between digitalization, work and extractivism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Preface
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1âIntroduction: Global Lives of Extraction
ââFilipe Calvão, Matthew Archer and Asanda Benya
Part 1
Community, Labout and Social Life
2âMigrants and the Politics of Presence on the South African Platinum Mining Belt
ââMelusi Nkomo
3âChromite Mining Cooperatives, Tribute Mining Contracts, and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 1985â2021
ââJoseph Mujere
4ââLe fléau de la soude caustiqueâ: Bauxite Refining, Social Reproduction, and the Role of Womenâs Promotion Groups
ââLuisa Lupo
5âTime for an Outcome Evaluation? The Experience of Indigenous Communities with Mining Benefit Sharing Agreements
ââLiz Wall and Fiona Haslam McKenzie
Part 2
Scales of Space and Time
6âStruggles over Resource Decentralisation: Legislative Reform, Corporate Resistance and Canadian Aid Partnerships in Burkina Faso
ââDiana Ayeh
7âThe Promise of Gold: Gold and Governance in Chinaâs Borderlands, Then and Now
ââEveline Bingaman
8âSpaces of Extraction in Europe: the CorporateâStateâMining Complex and Resistance in Greece and Romania
ââKonstantinos (Kostas) Petrakos
9âMuddled Times: Temporality and Gold Mining in Colombia and Venezuela
ââJesse Jonkman and Eva van Roekel
Part 3
Extractive Frontiers: Narratives and Discourses
10âExploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian Andes
ââAnneloes Hoff
11â(Im)mobility Economies: Extractivism of the Refugee as a Human Commodity
ââJulia C. Morris
12âAnti-extractive Rumouring in the Russian North-East
ââSardana Nikolaeva
Index
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1âIntroduction: Global Lives of Extraction
ââFilipe Calvão, Matthew Archer and Asanda Benya
Part 1
Community, Labout and Social Life
2âMigrants and the Politics of Presence on the South African Platinum Mining Belt
ââMelusi Nkomo
3âChromite Mining Cooperatives, Tribute Mining Contracts, and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 1985â2021
ââJoseph Mujere
4ââLe fléau de la soude caustiqueâ: Bauxite Refining, Social Reproduction, and the Role of Womenâs Promotion Groups
ââLuisa Lupo
5âTime for an Outcome Evaluation? The Experience of Indigenous Communities with Mining Benefit Sharing Agreements
ââLiz Wall and Fiona Haslam McKenzie
Part 2
Scales of Space and Time
6âStruggles over Resource Decentralisation: Legislative Reform, Corporate Resistance and Canadian Aid Partnerships in Burkina Faso
ââDiana Ayeh
7âThe Promise of Gold: Gold and Governance in Chinaâs Borderlands, Then and Now
ââEveline Bingaman
8âSpaces of Extraction in Europe: the CorporateâStateâMining Complex and Resistance in Greece and Romania
ââKonstantinos (Kostas) Petrakos
9âMuddled Times: Temporality and Gold Mining in Colombia and Venezuela
ââJesse Jonkman and Eva van Roekel
Part 3
Extractive Frontiers: Narratives and Discourses
10âExploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian Andes
ââAnneloes Hoff
11â(Im)mobility Economies: Extractivism of the Refugee as a Human Commodity
ââJulia C. Morris
12âAnti-extractive Rumouring in the Russian North-East
ââSardana Nikolaeva
Index
Academic scholars and researchers, policymakers and development practitioners interested in international development policy, extraction, enterprises and their effects on development, economic and political trends, and local development issues.