"The frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures ofgreen extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents. In this, the first of these two volumes, 16 authors offer a critical and nuanced understanding of the social, cultural and political dimensions of extraction. The experiences of communities, indigenous peoples and workers in extractive contexts are deeply shaped by narratives, imaginaries and the complexity of social contexts. These dimensions are crucial to making extraction possible and to sustaining its expansion, but also to identifying possibilities for resistance, and to paving the way for alternative, post-extractive economies. This volume is accompanied by IDP 16, The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures"--
This volume offers new perspectives from five continents on the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with critical and nuanced analyses of the social, cultural and political dimensions of extraction. It also explores the narratives and imaginaries that underpin extractive activities as well as resistance to them.
Preface
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1Introduction: Global Lives of Extraction
Filipe Calvćo, Matthew Archer and Asanda Benya
Part 1
Community, Labout and Social Life
2Migrants and the Politics of Presence on the South African Platinum Mining
Belt
Melusi Nkomo
3Chromite Mining Cooperatives, Tribute Mining Contracts, and Rural
Livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 19852021
Joseph Mujere
4Le fléau de la soude caustique: Bauxite Refining, Social Reproduction,
and the Role of Womens Promotion Groups
Luisa Lupo
5Time for an Outcome Evaluation? The Experience of Indigenous Communities
with Mining Benefit Sharing Agreements
Liz Wall and Fiona Haslam McKenzie
Part 2
Scales of Space and Time
6Struggles over Resource Decentralisation: Legislative Reform, Corporate
Resistance and Canadian Aid Partnerships in Burkina Faso
Diana Ayeh
7The Promise of Gold: Gold and Governance in Chinas Borderlands, Then and
Now
Eveline Bingaman
8Spaces of Extraction in Europe: the CorporateStateMining Complex and
Resistance in Greece and Romania
Konstantinos (Kostas) Petrakos
9Muddled Times: Temporality and Gold Mining in Colombia and Venezuela
Jesse Jonkman and Eva van Roekel
Part 3
Extractive Frontiers: Narratives and Discourses
10Exploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian Andes
Anneloes Hoff
11(Im)mobility Economies: Extractivism of the Refugee as a Human Commodity
Julia C. Morris
12Anti-extractive Rumouring in the Russian North-East
Sardana Nikolaeva
Index
Filipe Calvćo is an economic and environmental anthropologist. He is an associate professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His research examines the politics, ecologies and economies of mineral extraction, with a current focus on the nexus between digitalization, work and extractivism.
Matthew Archer studies corporate sustainability, sustainable finance and sustainable development through the lens of political ecology and environmental anthropology. He is currently a lecturer in sustainability in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York.
Asanda Benya is a labour sociologist based at the University of Cape Town. She works at the intersection of gender, class and race. She researches the extractives industries, gendered workplace subjectivities, labour and feminist movements.
