Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the Contemporary World
Intro -- List of figures and tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- 1. Reframing the debate on informal mining -- Section One: Historical antecedents and value‑making -- 2. Artisanal gold-rush mining and frontier democracy: Juxtaposing experiences in America, Australia, Africa and Asia -- 3. Tanzanite: Commodity fiction or commodity nightmare? -- 4. Agrarian distress and gemstone mining in India: The political economy of survival -- 5. The social ecology of artisanal mining: Between romanticisation and anathema -- Section Two: Precarious and gendered labour -- 6. Theorising transit labour in informal mineral extraction processes -- 7. A good business or a risky business: Health, safety and quality of life for women small-scale miners in PNG -- 8. Rice, sapphires and cattle: Work lives of women artisanal and small-scale miners in Madagascar -- 9. Is it possible to integrate health and safety risk management into mechanised gold processing? A methodology for artisanal and small-scale mining communities in the Philippines -- 10. Resources and resourcefulness: Gender, human rights and resilience in artisanal mining towns of eastern Congo -- Section Three: Conflicts and governance -- 11. Historical trajectory of gold-mining in the Nilgiri-Wayanad region of India -- 12. Conflicts in marginal locations: Small-scale gold-mining in the Amazon -- 13. Small-scale gold-mining: Opportunities and risks in post-conflict Colombia -- 14. Muddy rivers and toxic flows: Risks and impacts of artisanal gold-mining in the riverine catchments of Bombana, Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesia) -- 15. Artisanal and small-scale mining governance: The 'emerging issue' of 'unregulated mining' in Lao PDR -- 16. Reassembling informal gold‑mining for development and sustainability? Opportunities and limits to formalisation in India, Indonesia and Laos