Lives of Extraction

Filipe Calvão is an economic and environmental anthropologist. He is an associate professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. His research examines the politics, ecologies and economies of mineral extraction, with a current focus on the nexus between digitalization, work and extractivism.Matthew Archer studies corporate sustainability, sustainable finance and sustainable development through the lens of political ecology and environmental anthropology. He is currently a lecturer in sustainability in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York.Asanda Benya is a labour sociologist based at the University of Cape Town. She works at the intersection of gender, class and race. She researches the extractives industries, gendered workplace subjectivities, labour and feminist movements.

• PrefaceList of FiguresList of AbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Global Lives of ExtractionFilipe Calvão, Matthew Archer and Asanda BenyaPart 1Community, Labout and Social Life2 Migrants and the Politics of Presence on the South African Platinum Mining BeltMelusi Nkomo3 Chromite Mining Cooperatives, Tribute Mining Contracts, and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe, 1985–2021Joseph Mujere4 ‘Le fléau de la soude caustique’: Bauxite Refining, Social Reproduction, and the Role of Women’s Promotion GroupsLuisa Lupo5 Time for an Outcome Evaluation? The Experience of Indigenous Communities with Mining Benefit Sharing AgreementsLiz Wall and Fiona Haslam McKenziePart 2Scales of Space and Time6 Struggles over Resource Decentralisation: Legislative Reform, Corporate Resistance and Canadian Aid Partnerships in Burkina FasoDiana Ayeh7 The Promise of Gold: Gold and Governance in China’s Borderlands, Then and NowEveline Bingaman8 Spaces of Extraction in Europe: the Corporate–State–Mining Complex and Resistance in Greece and RomaniaKonstantinos (Kostas) Petrakos9 Muddled Times: Temporality and Gold Mining in Colombia and VenezuelaJesse Jonkman and Eva van RoekelPart 3Extractive Frontiers: Narratives and Discourses10 Exploration, Storytelling and Frontier-Making in the Colombian AndesAnneloes Hoff11 (Im)mobility Economies: Extractivism of the Refugee as a Human CommodityJulia C. Morris12 Anti-extractive Rumouring in the Russian North-EastSardana NikolaevaIndex