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This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning
anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a
crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required
in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at
the core of geopolitical strategies and environmental concerns for
the future of humanity. Scholars have widely debated the economic
and sociological aspects of resource management in our societies,
offering interesting and useful abstractions. However,
anthropologists offer different and fresh perspectives - sometimes
complementary and at other times alternative to these abstractions
- based on field researches conducted in close contact with those
actors (individuals as well as groups and institutions) that
manipulate, anticipate, fight for, or resist the extractive
processes in many creative ways. Thus, while addressing questions
such as: "What characterizes the anthropology of resource
extraction?", "What topics in the context of resource extraction
have anthropologists studied?", and "What approaches and insights
have emerged from this?", this book synthesizes and analyses a
range of anthropological debates about the ways in which different
actors extract, use, manage, and think about resources. This
comprehensive volume will serve as a key reading for scholars and
students within the social sciences working on resource extraction
and those with an interest in natural resources, environment,
capitalism, and globalization. It will also be a useful resource
for practitioners within mining and development.
This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning
anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a
crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required
in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at
the core of geopolitical strategies and environmental concerns for
the future of humanity. Scholars have widely debated the economic
and sociological aspects of resource management in our societies,
offering interesting and useful abstractions. However,
anthropologists offer different and fresh perspectives - sometimes
complementary and at other times alternative to these abstractions
- based on field researches conducted in close contact with those
actors (individuals as well as groups and institutions) that
manipulate, anticipate, fight for, or resist the extractive
processes in many creative ways. Thus, while addressing questions
such as: "What characterizes the anthropology of resource
extraction?", "What topics in the context of resource extraction
have anthropologists studied?", and "What approaches and insights
have emerged from this?", this book synthesizes and analyses a
range of anthropological debates about the ways in which different
actors extract, use, manage, and think about resources. This
comprehensive volume will serve as a key reading for scholars and
students within the social sciences working on resource extraction
and those with an interest in natural resources, environment,
capitalism, and globalization. It will also be a useful resource
for practitioners within mining and development.
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.
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