Between the Plough and the Pick

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Between the Plough and the Pick
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
July 21, 2020 | History

Between the Plough and the Pick

  • 0 Ratings
  • 0 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

"Between the Plough and the Pick deepens our understanding of informal, artisanal and small-scale mining, popularly known as ASM. The book engages with wider scholarly conceptualisations of contemporary global social, agrarian and political changes, whilst underlining the roles that local social?political-historical contexts play in shaping mineral extractive processes and practices. It shows that the people who are engaged in these mining practices are often the poorest and most exploited labourers?erstwhile peasants caught in the vortex of global change, who perform the most insecure and dangerous tasks. Although these people are located at the margins of mainstream economic life, they collectively produce enormous amounts of diverse material commodities and find a livelihood (and often a pathway out of oppressive poverty). The contributions to this book bring these people to the forefront of debates on resource politics. The contributors are international scholars and practitioners who explore the complexities in the histories, in labour and production practices, the forces driving such mining, the creative agency and capacities of these miners, as well as the human and environmental costs of ASM. They show how these informal, artisanal and small?scale miners are inextricably engaged with, or bound to, global commodity values, are intimately involved in the production of new extractive territories and rural economies, and how their labour reshapes agrarian communities and landscapes of resource access and control.
This book drives home the understanding that, collectively, this social and economic milieu redefines our conceptualisation of resource politics, mineral?dependent livelihoods, extractive geographies of resources and commodities, and their multiple meanings."

Publisher
ANU Press
Language
English

Buy this book

Edition Availability
Cover of: Between the Plough and the Pick
Between the Plough and the Pick
Publish date unknown, ANU Press
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Edition Notes

English.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28357388M
ISBN 13
9781760461713

Source records

marc_oapen MARC record

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
July 21, 2020 Created by MARC Bot Imported from marc_oapen MARC record