The future of artisanal miners from a large-scale perspective: From valued pathfinders to disposable illegals?
In: Futures, Band 62, S. 67-74
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In: Futures, Band 62, S. 67-74
In: Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Band 62, S. 67-74
ISSN: 0016-3287
In: Africa today, Band 58, Heft 3, S. 22-40
ISSN: 0001-9887
In: Africa today, Band 58, Heft 3: Central peripheries and sliding contexts : absence and marginality as spaces of emergence, S. 23-39
ISSN: 0001-9887
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In: Review of African political economy, Band 35, Heft 117, S. 387-401
ISSN: 0305-6244
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In: Review of African political economy, Band 35, Heft 117
ISSN: 1740-1720
Since the liberalisation of the gold mining sector in the 1990s, the state of Burkina Faso has the task of allotting exploration and exploitation permits to private companies. International junior companies are exploring vast concessions in Burkina, and publish promising prospects on the internet. Scrutinising the presence of (inter)national companies both on the web and on the ground, the article shows how a set of concessions constitutes a 'field', defined as a system of social positions structured in terms of power relations. Concessions bring together a wide range of professionals in mining: potential investors, international companies, Burkinabe entrepreneurs and artisanal miners. The article describes how legal distinctions affect the power structure of working arrangements on one particular group of exploration permits in the central part of Burkina, currently held by the Canadian company High River Gold: the Bissa permit Group. It examines what happens on the ground when companies are allotted formal titles, whereas artisanal miners can at best aspire to obtain marginal places for their informal practices.
In: Small-Scale Mining, Rural Subsistence and Poverty in West Africa, S. 135-148
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 515
L'exploitation aurifère artisanale au Burkina Faso a augmenté ces dernières années, de même que les attaques violentes de groupes armés non étatiques. Il est cependant trop simpliste de supposer qu'il existe un lien de causalité naturel entre les deux. L'escalade de la violence doit plutôt être considérée comme le résultat de tendances de longue date, telles que le désengagement de l'État, la dépendance croissante à l'or et la privatisation progressive de la sécurité. Pour freiner la violence, nous recommandons aux décideurs politiques d'éviter d'adopter une approche répressive à l'égard de l'extraction minière artisanale et de repenser la gouvernance du secteur en concertation avec les mineurs et les communautés rurales. ; Traduction du titre Insecurity in Burkina Faso – beyond conflict minerals : the complex links between artisanal gold mining and violence , NAI Policy Notes, 2021:3.
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In: Afrika-Studiecentrum series 13
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In: Urban Planning, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 259-262
Shipping canals have supported maritime traffic and port development for many centuries. Radical transformations of these shipping landscapes through land reclamation, diking, and canalization were celebrated as Herculean works of progress and modernity. Today, shipping canals are the sites of increasing tension between economic growth and associated infrastructural interventions focused on the quality, sustainability, and resilience of natural systems and spatial settlement patterns. Shifting approaches to land/water relations must now be understood in longer political histories in which pre-existing alliances influence changes in infrastructure planning. On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the New Waterway (Nieuwe Waterweg), the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus universities PortCityFutures Center hosted an international symposium in October 2022 to explore the past, present, and future of this channel that links Rotterdam to the North Sea. Symposium participants addressed issues of shipping, dredging, and planning within in the Dutch delta, and linked them to contemporary debates on the environmental, spatial, and societal conditions of shipping canals internationally. The thematic issue builds on symposium conversations, and highlights the importance of spatial, economic, and political linkages in port and urban development. These spatial approaches contribute to more dynamic, responsive strategies for shipping canals through water management and planning.
In: Hommes et sociétés
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In: Fisher , E , Luning , S , de Theije , M , D'Angelo , L , Araujo , C HX , Arnaldi de Balme , L , Calvimontes , J , van de Camp , E , da Costa Ferreira , L , Lanzano , C , Massaro , L , Ouédraogo , A , Mello , J P , Pijpers , R J , Obodai Provençal , N , Resende de Moraes , R , Sawadogo , C , de Tomi , G , Tuhumwire , M & Twongyirwe , R 2021 , ' Transforming matters : sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining ' , Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability , vol. 49 , pp. 190-200 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.06.010
Growth strategies in mining regions promote gold extraction based on industrial mining, associating Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) with persistent informality. Against this background, we consider how to approach transformations to sustainability in ASGM. Acknowledging how problematic this topic is for sustainability debates, given how ASGM is associated with a host of environmental and social problems, we argue that a justice lens demands we confront such challenges within the global politics of sustainability. This leads us to review advances in the study of ASGM, linked to debates on extractivism, resource materialities, and informality. We use the notion of gold lifeways to capture how the matter of mining shapes different worlds of extraction. We argue that consideration of the potential for transformations to sustainability needs to be grounded within the realities of ASGM. This necessitates giving value to miners' knowledge(s), perspectives and interests, while recognising the plurality of mining futures. Nevertheless, we conclude that between the immediacy of precarious work and the structural barriers to change in ASGM, the challenges for transformation cannot be underestimated.
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Growth strategies in mining regions promote gold extraction based on industrial mining, associating Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) with persistent informality. Against this background, we consider how to approach transformations to sustainability in ASGM. Acknowledging how problematic this topic is for sustainability debates, given how ASGM is associated with a host of environmental and social problems, we argue that a justice lens demands we confront such challenges within the global politics of sustainability. This leads us to review advances in the study of ASGM, linked to debates on extractivism, resource materialities,andinformality. Weuse thenotionofgoldlifewaysto capture how the matter of mining shapes different worlds of extraction. We argue that consideration of the potential for transformations to sustainability needs to be grounded within the realities of ASGM. This necessitates giving value to miners' knowledge(s), perspectives and interests, while recognising the plurality of mining futures. Nevertheless, we conclude that between the immediacy of precarious work and the structural barriers to change in ASGM, the challenges for transformation cannot be underestimated.
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