Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, artisanal and small-scale mining in the contemporary world - Couverture souple

Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala

 
9781760461713: Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, artisanal and small-scale mining in the contemporary world
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ISBN 10 : 1760461717 ISBN 13 : 9781760461713
Editeur : ANU Press, 2018

Synopsis

Between the Plough and the Pick deepens our understanding of informal, artisanal and small-scale mining, popularly known as ASM. The book engages with wider scholarly conceptualisations of contemporary global social, agrarian and political changes, whilst underlining the roles that local social-political-historical contexts play in shaping mineral extractive processes and practices. It shows that the people who are engaged in these mining practices are often the poorest and most exploited labourers—erstwhile peasants caught in the vortex of global change, who perform the most insecure and dangerous tasks. Although these people are located at the margins of mainstream economic life, they collectively produce enormous amounts of diverse material commodities and find a livelihood (and often a pathway out of oppressive poverty).

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Éditeur
ANU Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1760461717
ISBN 13 
9781760461713
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
398
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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