The Global Life of Mines

Mining and Post-Mining in Comparative Perspective

Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-591-1 (ISBN)

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Resource extraction exists in diverse settings across the world and is carried out through different practices. The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as interrelated and coexisting features within the global minescape. The book brings together scholars from various fields, such as anthropology, geography, sociology and political science, examining ethnographic case studies throughout the Americas (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, USA), Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Europe (Italy, Arctic Norway and Spain).

Antonio Maria Pusceddu is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Recent publications include Southern Chronicles: The Political Ecology of Class in the Italian Industrial Periphery (Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2022) and Grassroots Ecologies of Value: Environmental Conflict and Social Reproduction in Southern Italy (Antipode, 2020).

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Introduction: Timescapes of Extraction

Antonio Maria Pusceddu and Filippo M. Zerilli

Chapter 1. Frontier Spaces in the Arctic and the Andes: The Miner, the Smuggler and Performances of (Post)extractivism

Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard

*This chapter is is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the University of Bergen

Chapter 2. Technological Promises of ‘Green’ Extractivism in Historical Minescapes: Narratives and Materiality of Mining Revival in Andalusian Wastelands

Doris Buu-Sao

Chapter 3. Unearthing the Buried Past of Brazil’s Former Gold Mines

Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos

Chapter 4. How Industrial and Artisanal Extraction Shape a City: On Urban Planning Flaws, Encroaching Open Pits and Backyard Mining in a Congolese Mining Town

Kristien Geenen

Chapter 5. Mining Life Cycles and Indigenous Land Dispossession in North America: A View from the American West

Paul White

Chapter 6. Contentious Legacies: Post-Mining and Heritage-Making in the Italian Alps

Roberta Clara Zanini

Chapter 7. Uranium Mining in New Mexico: Global Entanglements, Earth Relations, and Awkward Ways

Targol Mesbah

Afterword: What’s to Come: Mining in a Fevered World

David Kideckel

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	Dislocations
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	1-80539-591-2 / 1805395912
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-591-1 / 9781805395911
Zustand	Neuware