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This volume can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change.
List of contents
1 An Introduction to Mining, Mobility, and Social Change
Matthew Himley, David Brereton, and Gerardo Castillo GuzmánSECTION IThe Andes 2
Ch'ixi Mobilities: Small-Scale Mining and Indigenous Autonomy
in the Bolivian Tin Belt
Andrea Marston3 Mining, Infrastructure, and Mobility in the Andes
Gerardo Damonte, Julieta Godfrid, and Ana Paula López4 Navigating Gendered Landscapes of Mineral Extraction: Spatial Mobility,
Women's Autonomy, and Mining Development in the Peruvian Andes
Gerardo Castillo GuzmánSECTION IICentral and West Africa 5 Chasing Gold: Technology, People, and Matter on the Move in
Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Philippe Dunia Kabunga, Simon Marijsse, and Sara Geenen 6 Making Mining Localities: Trajectories and Stories of Mining and
Mobility in Zambia
Patience Mususa and Iva Peša7 The Governance of ASGM in Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire: (Im)mobility,
Territory, and Technological Change
Anna Dessertine, Robin Petit-Roulet, Muriel Champy, and Ibrahima Kalil DoumbouyaSECTION IIIMelanesia8 Mining-Induced In-Migration in Papua New Guinea
Glenn Banks and Tobias Schwörer9 Mining Fronts, Labor Mobilities, and the Construction of Locality
in Thio, New Caledonia
Pierre-Yves Le Meur10 Beyond the Enclave: Workforce Mobility and Livelihoods in a
New Caledonia Mining Region
Séverine Bouard and Valentine BoudjemaSECTION IVConclusion11 Mining and Mobility: Key Insights, Governance Implications, and Future Research
David Brereton, Gerardo Castillo Guzmán, and Matthew Himley
About the author
Gerardo Castillo Guzmán is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Peru. He is Coordinator of the Anthropology of the City Research Group at PUCP and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland's Sustainable Minerals Institute, Australia.
Matthew Himley is Professor of Geography at Illinois State University, USA. He is a nature-society geographer with research interests in the political ecology and political economy of resource industries, especially in the Andean region of South America. He is Co-editor of
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography (Routledge, 2021).
David Brereton is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he was Foundation Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining. Since retiring from the University in 2016, he has continued to undertake research and advisory work focused on improving corporate social performance in the global mining sector.
