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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Bücher
DOI 10.1515/9783110690163
Titel (primär) Spaces of responsibility: negotiating industrial gold mining in Burkina Faso
Autor Ayeh, D.
Quelle Dialectics of the Global
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
Department SUSOZ
Band/Volume 10
Seite bis 352
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Keywords Rohstoffgewinnung; sozioökonomische Entwicklung; globaler Bergbaukapitalismus; Goldanbau
Abstract Spaces of Responsibility explores the role of ethics in (re)ordering extractive relations under the global condition. Through an empirical investigation of actors, places, and ideas in and around Burkina Faso’s industrial gold mining sector, this volume carries out an anti-essentialist yet critical examination, offering new insights into global mining capitalism. Corporate concession-making practices, the implementation of (national) mining legislation, and civil society interventions in mining areas all contribute in different ways to the dialectics of the global. Accordingly, the ongoing territorialization of mining investment often has considerable impacts on the well-being of populations in the Global South. At the same time, multinational corporations today cannot completely distance or isolate themselves from the political, economic, and social contexts they are interacting in and with. Drawing on theoretical debates about the links between resource extraction and socio-economic development, multi-scalar negotiations of ethics in mining governance are ethnographically retraced. In terms of gains and benefits, these negotiations manifest themselves spatially, providing access for some actors while excluding others.
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Ayeh, D. (2021):
Spaces of responsibility: negotiating industrial gold mining in Burkina Faso
Dialectics of the Global 10
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin, Boston, 352 pp.