Robert Jan Pijpers
Biographic Data
| ID | 95601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Jan Pijpers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Pijpers |
| SIGNATURE | PIJPERS R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2031-1178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Global corporations and local dependencies: Resource redistribution and the reconfiguration of dependency relations in Sierra Leone
Dynamics of resource redistribution, local entanglement, and processes of dis/empowerment are crucial elements in the development effects of corporate resource extraction. This article critically speaks to these debates by examining the entanglements of a global mining company in Sierra Leone and its effects on local patronage and dependency networks. Crucially, rather than foregrounding processes of detachment and the reproduction of inequality,…
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations
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 r…
Transforming matters: Sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
We have so many challenges: Small-scale mining, Covid-19 and constant interruptions in West Africa
Currently, the impacts of Covid-19 are receiving significant global attention. This also applies to the extractive industries, where this global crisis is directing the gaze of policymakers, donors and academics alike. Covid-19 is seen as having far-reaching and disruptive consequences, especially in the case of artisanal and small-scale mining. While the authors consider this attention important, their work on artisanal and small-scale mining in…
Mining Temporalities: An Overview
Shifting alliances in accessing the underground
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Governing access to gold in Ghana: In-Depth Geopolitics on Mining Concessions
Studies of articulations between large- and small-scale mining have overlooked the subterranean dimension of extraction and ignored how mining companies and artisanal miners cohabit in places with long histories of small-scale mining and are affected by their different capacities to access specific mineral deposits. Drawing on a study of two gold concessions in Ghana, this article focuses on three factors that influence modalities of governing ac…
Mining, expectations and turbulent times: Locating accelerated change in rural Sierra Leone
In 2006 the iron mines in Marampa Chiefdom, in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, re-opened. This event sparked a widespread feeling of excitement and hope among the local population, and gave rise to a landscape of expectations in which memories of both relative prosperous and "dark" pasts were invoked and imaginations of a better future flourished. However, soon after the re-opening and initial development of the mines, it appeared that the…
Crops and carats: Exploring the interconnectedness of mining and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mining Temporalities: An Overview
Governing access to gold in Ghana: In-Depth Geopolitics on Mining Concessions
Studies of articulations between large- and small-scale mining have overlooked the subterranean dimension of extraction and ignored how mining companies and artisanal miners cohabit in places with long histories of small-scale mining and are affected by their different capacities to access specific mineral deposits. Drawing on a study of two gold concessions in Ghana, this article focuses on three factors that influence modalities of governing ac…
Crops and carats: Exploring the interconnectedness of mining and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mining, expectations and turbulent times: Locating accelerated change in rural Sierra Leone
In 2006 the iron mines in Marampa Chiefdom, in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, re-opened. This event sparked a widespread feeling of excitement and hope among the local population, and gave rise to a landscape of expectations in which memories of both relative prosperous and "dark" pasts were invoked and imaginations of a better future flourished. However, soon after the re-opening and initial development of the mines, it appeared that the…
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations
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 r…
Transforming matters: Sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
Global corporations and local dependencies: Resource redistribution and the reconfiguration of dependency relations in Sierra Leone
Dynamics of resource redistribution, local entanglement, and processes of dis/empowerment are crucial elements in the development effects of corporate resource extraction. This article critically speaks to these debates by examining the entanglements of a global mining company in Sierra Leone and its effects on local patronage and dependency networks. Crucially, rather than foregrounding processes of detachment and the reproduction of inequality,…
Crops and carats: Exploring the interconnectedness of mining and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mining, expectations and turbulent times: Locating accelerated change in rural Sierra Leone
In 2006 the iron mines in Marampa Chiefdom, in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, re-opened. This event sparked a widespread feeling of excitement and hope among the local population, and gave rise to a landscape of expectations in which memories of both relative prosperous and "dark" pasts were invoked and imaginations of a better future flourished. However, soon after the re-opening and initial development of the mines, it appeared that the…
Governing access to gold in Ghana: In-Depth Geopolitics on Mining Concessions
Studies of articulations between large- and small-scale mining have overlooked the subterranean dimension of extraction and ignored how mining companies and artisanal miners cohabit in places with long histories of small-scale mining and are affected by their different capacities to access specific mineral deposits. Drawing on a study of two gold concessions in Ghana, this article focuses on three factors that influence modalities of governing ac…
Mining Temporalities: An Overview
Shifting alliances in accessing the underground
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Transforming matters: Sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
We have so many challenges: Small-scale mining, Covid-19 and constant interruptions in West Africa
Currently, the impacts of Covid-19 are receiving significant global attention. This also applies to the extractive industries, where this global crisis is directing the gaze of policymakers, donors and academics alike. Covid-19 is seen as having far-reaching and disruptive consequences, especially in the case of artisanal and small-scale mining. While the authors consider this attention important, their work on artisanal and small-scale mining in…
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations
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 r…
Global corporations and local dependencies: Resource redistribution and the reconfiguration of dependency relations in Sierra Leone
Dynamics of resource redistribution, local entanglement, and processes of dis/empowerment are crucial elements in the development effects of corporate resource extraction. This article critically speaks to these debates by examining the entanglements of a global mining company in Sierra Leone and its effects on local patronage and dependency networks. Crucially, rather than foregrounding processes of detachment and the reproduction of inequality,…
Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (9 works) · Mining and Resource Management (9 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Law (3 works)