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Resource extraction exists in diverse settings across the world and is carried out through different practices. The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as interrelated and coexisting features within the global minescape. The book brings together scholars from various fields, such as anthropology, geography, sociology and political science, examining ethnographic case studies throughout the Americas (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, USA), Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Europe (Italy, Arctic Norway and Spain).
“The book is well-designed and well-situated within the literature … It will provide a valuable comparative resource on two aspects of mining less frequently discussed – the comparisons across space and time and the post-mining context.” • Elizabeth Ferry, Brandeis University
Antonio Maria Pusceddu is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Recent publications include Southern Chronicles: The Political Ecology of Class in the Italian Industrial Periphery (Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2022) and Grassroots Ecologies of Value: Environmental Conflict and Social Reproduction in Southern Italy (Antipode, 2020).
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Timescapes of Extraction
Antonio Maria Pusceddu and Filippo M. Zerilli
Chapter 1. Frontier Spaces in the Arctic and the Andes: The Miner, the Smuggler and Performances of (Post)extractivism
Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard
*This chapter is is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the University of Bergen
Chapter 2. Technological Promises of ‘Green’ Extractivism in Historical Minescapes: Narratives and Materiality of Mining Revival in Andalusian Wastelands
Doris Buu-Sao
Chapter 3. Unearthing the Buried Past of Brazil’s Former Gold Mines
Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos
Chapter 4. How Industrial and Artisanal Extraction Shape a City: On Urban Planning Flaws, Encroaching Open Pits and Backyard Mining in a Congolese Mining Town
Kristien Geenen
Chapter 5. Mining Life Cycles and Indigenous Land Dispossession in North America: A View from the American West
Paul White
Chapter 6. Contentious Legacies: Post-Mining and Heritage-Making in the Italian Alps
Roberta Clara Zanini
Chapter 7. Uranium Mining in New Mexico: Global Entanglements, Earth Relations, and Awkward Ways
Targol Mesbah
Afterword: What’s to Come: Mining in a Fevered World
David Kideckel