Mining Encounters - Extractive Industries in an Overheated World (Hardcover)

In a fast-changing world, where the extraction of natural resources is key to development, whilst also creating environmental and social disasters, understanding how landscapes, people and politics are shaped by extraction is crucial. Looking at resource extraction in numerous locations at different stages of development, including North, West and South Africa, India, Kazakhstan and Australia, a broad picture is created, covering coal, natural-gas, gold and cement mining, from corporate to 'artisanal' extraction, from the large to the small scale. The chapters answer the questions: What is ideological about resource extraction? How does extraction transform the physical landscape? And how does the extractive process determine which stakeholders become dominant or marginalised? Contributing to policy debates, Mining Encounters uncovers the tensions, negotiations and disparities between different actors in the extractive industries, including exploiters and those who benefit or are impoverished by resource exploitation.

General

Imprint:	Pluto Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2018
Editors:	Robert Jan Pijpers • Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Dimensions:	215 x 135 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Library binding
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-3837-8
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Mining industry
LSN:	0-7453-3837-2
Barcode:	9780745338378

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