The Lives of Extraction: Identities, Communities and the Politics of Place

Front Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: Global Lives of Extraction
	1 Introduction
	2 Resource Development and the ‘Madness’ of Extractivism
	3 The Politics of Extraction: Theory and Practice
	4 Becoming: Identities and the Matter of Extraction
	5 Communities of Production and Reproduction
	6 Global Extractive Networks and the Politics of Place
	7 Volume Overview
	Acknowledgements
	References
Part 1 Community, Labout and Social Life
	Chapter 2 Migrants and the Politics of Presence on the South African Platinum Mining Belt
		1 Introduction
		2 Background and Context: the Roots of Migrants’ Marginalisation Around South Africa’s Platinum Mines
		3 Enacting Political Presence on the Platinum Belt
		4 ‘Khawuzithuthe khe!’ (‘Praise yourself!’): Knowing One another On the Platinum Belt
		5 Inscribing and Reinforcing the Politics of Presence
			5.1 “One Doesn’t Just Wriggle Out Like a Snake”: Bidding Farewell
		6 Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 3 Chromite Mining Cooperatives, Tribute Mining Contracts, and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 1985–2021
		1 Introduction
		2 Liberalisation, Informalisation, and the Rise of Chromite Mining Cooperatives
		3 Chromite Mining Cooperatives and Rural Livelihoods in Mapanzure Communal Areas
		4 Land Reform, Chromite Mining Cooperatives, and Chinese Companies
		5 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4 ‘Le fléau de la soude caustique’: Bauxite Refining, Social Reproduction, and the Role of Women’s Promotion Groups
		1 Introduction
		2 Extractivism: Bringing in Social Reproduction
		3 Bauxite Mining and Women’s Promotion Groups in Guinea
		4 ‘D’où vient la soude?’
			4.1 Revaluating Women’s Promotion Groups in Times of Crisis
		5 ‘Notre ville est née de l’usine, et non l’inverse’
		6 Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 5 Time for an Outcome Evaluation? The Experience of Indigenous Communities with Mining Benefit Sharing Agreements
		1 Introduction
		2 Mining’s Contested Contribution to Development
		3 Benefit Sharing with Indigenous Communities
		4 The Perspective Gained from Mine Closure
		5 Evaluating the Outcome
		6 Conclusion
		Disclosure statement
		References
Part 2 Scales of Space and Time
	Chapter 6 Struggles over Resource Decentralisation: Legislative Reform, Corporate Resistance and Canadian Aid Partnerships in Burkina Faso
		1 Introduction
		2 Global Partnerships, National Reform, Local Agency: a Multi-scalar Approach to Ethics in Mining
		3 Canadian Corporate and Donor Presence in Burkina Faso’s Mining Sector
		4 Legal Requirements vs. Voluntary Engagements: Contestations over the Implementation of a Mining Fund for Local Development (FMDL)
		5 Reshuffling Responsibility and Monitoring Community Unrest: How Ethics Shape Mining’s Feasibility
		6 Conclusion and Debate
		References
	Chapter 7 The Promise of Gold: Gold and Governance in China’s Borderlands, Then and Now
		1 Introduction
		2 Life on the Periphery of China’s Development
		3 The History of Gold in Muli
			3.1 Muli Kingdom Era, 1675–1957
			3.2 Cooperative Era, 1957–84
			3.3 ‘Household Responsibility’ Policy, 1984—Present
		4 The Promise of Gold
			4.1 Eya’s Gold Industry
		5 The Three Connects Policy and the Arrival of ‘Boss Ho’
		6 Collective Action
		7 Discussion
		8 Epilogue
		References
	Chapter 8 Spaces of Extraction in Europe: the Corporate–State–Mining Complex and Resistance in Greece and Romania
		1 Introduction
		2 The Permanence of Primitive Accumulation: Expanded Extractivism in Crisis-Scapes
		3 Case Studies and Methodology
		4 Confronting the Expansion of Extractivism: Radical Praxis in Chalkidiki and ROSIA MONTANA
		5 Corporate Social Responsibility as a Means of Enhancing the Expansion of Extractivism
		6 The Logic of Extractivism Shapes State Policies
		7 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 9 Muddled Times: Temporality and Gold Mining in Colombia and Venezuela
		1 Time and Again
		2 Extraction and Time
		3 The Venezuelan Gold Rush: the Afterlife Within
		4 Mining in the Ruins of the Chocó Gold Rush
		5 Muddled Times as Afterthought
		References
Part 3 Extractive Frontiers: Narratives and Discourses
	Chapter 10 Exploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian Andes
		1 Introduction
		2 New Frontiers
		3 País minero
		4 Mining Title Bonanza
		5 Speculation and Superlatives
		6 Greenfields Mythologising
		7 Suspended Capitalisation and Alternative Stories
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 11 (Im)mobility Economies: Extractivism of the Refugee as a Human Commodity
		1 Introduction
		2 The Economies of (Im)mobility
		3 Jordan: Asylum as a Hyper-extractive System
			3.1 Jordan: a Resource Boom Frontier
		4 Conclusions: #RefugeesWelcome and Hyper-Extraction
		References
	Chapter 12 Anti-extractive Rumouring in the Russian North-East
		1 Introduction
		2 Situating the Research: Location and Methodologies
		3 Theoretical Considerations: an Act of Rumouring
		4 Rumours in Action
		5 Contaminating Rumours
		6 Conclusion
		References
Index
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