Mining and Social Transformation in Africa: Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production - Routledge Studies in Development and Society - Deborah Fahy Bryceson - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9780415833707 - October 4, 2013
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Mining and Social Transformation in Africa: Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production - Routledge Studies in Development and Society 1st edition

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After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the booming international market for minerals. Spurred by the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have been engaged in a massive search for alternative livelihoods, one of the most lucrative being artisanal mining.

While an expanding literature has documented the economic expansion of artisanal mining, this book is the first to probe its societal impact, demonstrating that artisanal mining has the potential to be far more democratic and emancipating than preceding modes.

Delineating the paradoxes of artisanal miners working alongside the expansion of large-scale mining investment in Africa, Mining and Social Transformation in Africa concentrates on the Tanzanian experience. Written by authors with fresh research insights, focus is placed on how artisanal mining is configured in relation to local, regional and national mining investments and social class differentiation. The work lives and associated lifestyles of miners and residents of mining settlements are brought to the fore, asking where this historical interlude is taking them and their communities in the future. The question of value transfers out of the artisanal mining sector, value capture by elites and changing configurations of gender, age and class differentiation, all arise.

232 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 14 black & white tables, 6 black & white line drawings

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Released October 4, 2013
ISBN13 9780415833707
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 232
Dimensions 155 × 242 × 18 mm   ·   486 g
Language English  
Editor Bryceson, Deborah Fahy (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Editor Fisher, Eleanor (The University of Reading, UK)
Editor Jønsson, Jesper Bosse (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Editor Mwaipopo, Rosemarie (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)

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