Transforming matters: sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
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2021Author
Fisher, Eleanor
Luning, Sabine
D’Angelo, Lorenzo
HX Araujo, Carlos
Balme, Luigi Arnaldi de
Calvimontes, Jorge
Camp, Esther van de
Ferreira, Lu´ cia da Costa
Lanzano, Cristiano
Massaro, Luciana
Oue´ draogo, Alize` ta
Mello, Janua´ ria Pereira
Pijpers, Robert J
Provencal, Nii Obodai
Resende de Moraes, Raı´ssa
Sawadogo, Christophe
Theije, Marjo de
Tomi, Giorgio de
Tuhumwire, Margaret
Twongyirwe, Ronald
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Growth strategies in mining regions promote gold extraction based on industrial mining, associating Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) with persistent informality. Against this background, we consider how to approach transformations to sustainability in ASGM. Acknowledging how problematic this topic is for sustainability debates, given how ASGM is associated with a host of environmental and social problems, we argue that a justice lens demands we confront such challenges within the global politics of sustainability. This leads us to review advances in the study of ASGM, linked to debates on extractivism, resource materialities,and informality. We use the notion of gold life ways to capture how the matter of mining shapes different worlds of extraction. We argue that consideration of the potential for transformations to sustainability needs to be grounded within the realities of ASGM. This necessitates giving value to miners’ knowledge(s), perspectives and interests, while recognising the plurality of mining futures. Nevertheless, we conclude that between the immediacy of precarious work and the structural barriers to change in ASGM, the challenges for transformation cannot be underestimated
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