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Mining Africa [Law, Environ...
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monografia Rebiun21361371 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun21361371 m o d cr |n|---||||| 170603s2017 cm o 000 0 eng d 9789956764563 9956764566 UAM 991008082389004211 EBLCP eng pn EBLCP OCLCQ IDEBK NT MERUC NT OCLCF OCLCQ L2U OCLCQ UNAV 338.2095475 23 Mining Africa Recurso electrónico] Law, Environment, Society and Politics in Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives Bamenda, Cameroon Langaa RPCIG 2017 Bamenda, Cameroon Bamenda, Cameroon Langaa RPCIG 394 p. 394 p. EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Power, Representation and Resistance Cover; Title page; Copyright page; List of Contributors; Contents; Foreword; Chapter One -- On the Challenges of African Mining and Environments in the New World Order: An Introduction; Africa's Resources and Western Conjurations of a New World Order; Locating Africans Back in the Mine Compounds: On the Resilience of Colonial Templates; Outlines of the Chapters; References; Chapter Two -- When Did the Rain Start to Beat Us? Discursive Dispossession and the Political Economies of Misrecognition about African Mining; Introduction (Dis- )possessing the 'Possessed'? On the Material and Discursive Dispossession of AfricansGlobal Hunter-Gatherers and the Question of Security for Capital? Multinational Corporations of Private Security and Private Armies; Attracting Foreign Investors or Attracting Foreign Appropriators? Discursive Dispossession and the Political Economies of Misrecognition in Africa; Conclusion; References; Chapter Three -- Archaeological Technologies of Gold Mining and Processing and their Relationship to Contemporary Chikorokoza: The Case of Mutanda Site, Mutare, Zimbabwe; Introduction A summary of the archaeological excavations at Mutanda Site -- S 18 59' 49.2"" E 032 19' 27.84"", Elev. 1089m. The chaîne opératoire of Mutanda Cultural Precinct; Crucibles and the archaeometallurgical evidence; The connection between hammerstones and dolly holes; Early Forms of ASM, trading in Manyika and 'Blanket' Prospecting; ASM, low barriers of entry and ethnoarchaeology; Formal or Informal -- "Don't arrest gold panners, Mangudya"; Social practices and the habitus of Makorokozas; Conclusion; References Chapter Four -- Unsung Heroes? An Anthropological Approach into the Experiences of 'Zamazamas ' in Johannesburg, South AfricaIntroduction; Historical overview of mining practices characteristic in African mining systems; Influence of contemporary mining practices on the sustainability of 'zamazama ' mining; Identities and the spirit of communalism among zamazamas; Experiences of women artisanal miners; The question of 'formality' and 'non-formal' mining practices; Conclusion: Towards an inclusive framework in contemporary African mining systems; References Chapter Five -- Zamazama 5 -- Livelihood Strategies, Mobilisation and Resistance in Johannesburg, South AfricaIntroduction; Background; Conceptualising non-formal mining; Non-formal mining in the context of South Africa; Part One: The macro and micro political economy of mining in a post-apartheid labour regime; Part Two: The mining labour process: The tools and the division of labour; Ethnicity, nationality and syndicates; Beliefs and Earnings; Part Three: Marketing of gold: Buyers and the destination of gold; Part Four: Risk -taking, Precarity, Solidarity and new forms of resistance Forma de acceso: World Wide Web Nhemachena, Artwell Warikandwa, Tapiwa V.