Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South: Regional Perspectives (Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development)

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Synopsis
This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change. This collection centers the concept of mobility to address the diversity of mining-related population movements as well as the agency of people engaged in these movements. This volume opens by introducing both the historical context and conceptual tools for analyzing the mining-mobility nexus, followed by case study chapters focusing on three regions with significant histories of mineral extraction and where mining currently plays an important role in socio-economic life: the Andes, Central and West Africa, and Melanesia. Written by authors with expertise in diverse fields, including anthropology, development studies, geography, and history, case study chapters address areas of both large- and smallscale mining. They explore the historical-geographical factors shaping mining-related mobilities, the meanings people attach to these movements, and the relations between people’s mobility practices and the flows of other things put in motion by mining, including capital, ideas, technologies, and toxic contamination. The result is an important volume that provides fresh insights into the social geographies and spatial politics of extraction. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and the extractive industries, spatial politics and geography, mobility and migration, development, and the social and environmental dimensions of natural resources more generally.
Copyright:
2024

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Book Size:
248 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781003834632
Related ISBNs:
9781003313236, 9781032321790, 9781003834618
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Gerardo Castillo Guzmán, Matthew Himley, and David Brereton
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No
Language:
English
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Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Technology, Earth Sciences
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Gerardo Castillo Guzmán
Edited by:
Matthew Himley
Edited by:
David Brereton

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