Search: L773:0959 3780 OR L773:1872 9495
> (2020-2024) >
The lifeways of sma...
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners : Addressing sustainability transformations
-
- Fisher, Eleanor (author)
- Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,Research Unit
-
- de Theije, Marjo (author)
- Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-
- Araujo, Carlos H. X. (author)
- NAP Mineração, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
-
show more...
-
- Calvimontes, Jorge (author)
- NEPAM, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
-
- van de Camp, Esther (author)
- Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
-
- D'Angelo, Lorenzo (author)
- Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy
-
- Lanzano, Cristiano (author)
- Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,Research Unit
-
- Luning, Sabine (author)
- Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
-
- Massaro, Luciana (author)
- Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-
- Mello, Januária (author)
- NEPAM, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
-
- Ouédraogo, Alizèta (author)
- Institute for Social Research in Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
-
- Robert J., Pijpers (author)
- University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
-
- de Moraes, Raíssa Resende (author)
- Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; NEPAM, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
-
- Sawadogo, Christophe (author)
- Atelier Maan Neere, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
-
- Tuhumwire, Margaret (author)
- Environmental Women in Action for Development, Entebbe, Uganda
-
- Twongyirwe, Ronald (author)
- Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
-
show less...
-
(creator_code:org_t)
- 2023
- 2023
- English.
-
In: Global Environmental Change. - 0959-3780 .- 1872-9495. ; 82
- Related links:
-
https://doi.org/10.1...
-
show more...
-
https://nai.diva-por... (primary) (Raw object)
-
https://urn.kb.se/re...
-
https://doi.org/10.1...
-
show less...
Abstract
Subject headings
Close
- Small-scale gold mining sustains millions of people’s lives and yet it stimulates environmental harms and social conflicts. Global environmental crises drive calls for fundamental change to how people live on the planet. For small-scale gold mining, this raises questions about whether current dynamics can provide a basis for sustainability transformations. Proposing the notion of gold lifeways to focus on the lived experience of mining and gold resources as relational phenomena, we ask what sustainability looks like from different miners’ perspectives and probe the practice dynamics of current transformation. Our methodology is social science-led and transdisciplinary. From multi-sited and trans-regional research between South America and Africa, we draw cases from Suriname, Guinea Conakry, and Uganda. Our study finds that gold lifeways give expression to different strands of sustainability: sustaining everyday life in mining; discourses framing mining practices; and government repression of mining. Hence, as our empirical data demonstrates, miner perspectives on sustainability gain content not in isolation, but as part of gold lifeways embedded within different contexts and shaped by societal dynamics. Ultimately, the transformative potency of small-scale gold mining is located in personal lives and precarious dynamics rather than glittering promises of a sustainable future.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Small-scale gold mining
- Gold lifeways
- Materiality
- Sustainability transformations
- Transdisciplinary
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
Find in a library
To the university's database
- By the author/editor
-
Fisher, Eleanor
-
de Theije, Marjo
-
Araujo, Carlos H ...
-
Calvimontes, Jor ...
-
van de Camp, Est ...
-
D'Angelo, Lorenz ...
-
show more...
-
Lanzano, Cristia ...
-
Luning, Sabine
-
Massaro, Luciana
-
Mello, Januária
-
Ouédraogo, Alizè ...
-
Robert J., Pijpe ...
-
de Moraes, Raíss ...
-
Sawadogo, Christ ...
-
Tuhumwire, Marga ...
-
Twongyirwe, Rona ...
-
show less...
- About the subject
-
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
-
SOCIAL SCIENCES
-
and Other Social Sci ...
-
and Social Sciences ...
- Articles in the publication
-
Global Environme ...
- By the university
-
The Nordic Africa Institute