Gold Matters : Visualizing Mining Worlds

• A book of photographs that centre on visualizing mining worlds, notably the worlds of artisanal and small-scale gold miners working in the Brazilian and Surinamese Amazon, and in parts of West and East Africa. Often this gold mining is portrayed in negative, stereotyped, and homogenizing ways. Since miners typically operate in the shadows of the law, their lifeways are remote from the public eye. Visualization by means of photgraphy helps bring to light the diversity of mining terrains and the close connections between miners and these terrains. Images presented in the book are the result of collaboration with gold miners for a project "Sustainability Transformations in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining: Trans-Regional and Multi-Actor Perspectives" (2018-2022).

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Africa

Amazon

Art

Artisanal & Small-scale Mining (ASM)

Brazil

Burkina Faso

Exhibitions

Ghana

Gold

Gold mines

Mineral resources

Miners

Mining

Photographs

Photography

Suriname

Sustainability

Transdisciplinary

Transformation

Uganda

Visual Methods

Visual arts

Rural

Rural

Publication and Content Type

pop (subject category)

bok (subject category)

kfu (subject category)