Between the Plough and the Pick : Informal, Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the Contemporary World.

Intro -- List of figures and tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- 1. Reframing the debate on informal mining -- Section One: Historical antecedents and value‑making -- 2. Artisanal gold-rush mining and frontier democracy: Juxtaposing experiences in America, Australia, Africa and Asia -- 3. Tanzanite: Commodity fiction or commodity nightmare? -- 4. Agrarian distress and gemstone mining in India: The political economy of survival -- 5. The social ecology of artisanal mining: Between romanticisation and anathema -- Section Two: Precarious and gendered labour -- 6. Theorising transit labour in informal mineral extraction processes -- 7. A good business or a risky business: Health, safety and quality of life for women small-scale miners in PNG -- 8. Rice, sapphires and cattle: Work lives of women artisanal and small-scale miners in Madagascar -- 9. Is it possible to integrate health and safety risk management into mechanised gold processing? A methodology for artisanal and small-scale mining communities in the Philippines -- 10. Resources and resourcefulness: Gender, human rights and resilience in artisanal mining towns of eastern Congo -- Section Three: Conflicts and governance -- 11. Historical trajectory of gold-mining in the Nilgiri-Wayanad region of India -- 12. Conflicts in marginal locations: Small-scale gold-mining in the Amazon -- 13. Small-scale gold-mining: Opportunities and risks in post-conflict Colombia -- 14. Muddy rivers and toxic flows: Risks and impacts of artisanal gold-mining in the riverine catchments of Bombana, Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesia) -- 15. Artisanal and small-scale mining governance: The 'emerging issue' of 'unregulated mining' in Lao PDR -- 16. Reassembling informal gold‑mining for development and sustainability? Opportunities and limits to formalisation in India, Indonesia and Laos.

Postscript.

This book drives home the understanding that, collectively, this social and economic milieu redefines our conceptualisation of resource politics, mineral‑dependent livelihoods, extractive geographies of resources and commodities, and their multiple meanings.

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