Governing access to gold in Ghana
In-Depth Geopolitics on Mining Concessions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2103276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabine Luning (0000-0002-9951-2780, corresponding author), Robert Jan Pijpers (0000-0002-2031-1178) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 758-779 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0001972017000353 |
| OpenAlex | W2766951508 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 53 |
| References cited | 45 |
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 access to gold in such sites: the stage of a mining operation, the local socio-political context, and the characteristics of the subterranean structure. We call the combination and interplay of these factors 'in-depth geopolitics'. The article shows how this interplay affects the strategies used by both large- and small-scale miners to work out arrangements of cohabitation and ways of governing access, control and maintenance to gold in spatial settings where both types of gold mining occur side by side. By tracing ethnographically the variations of 'in-depth geopolitics', this article critically engages with ideas of subterranean sovereignty, mining enclaves, state-company-community relations, and the socio-spatial characteristics of mining concessions
Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Cartography · Cohabitation · Context (archaeology · Dimension (graph theory · Economic geography · Geography · Geopolitics · Gold mining · Political geography · Political science · Politics · Scale (ratio · Sovereignty · Work (physics · Engineering · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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Reflections of desynchronized neoliberalism in artisanal and small-scale mining
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The gold commodity frontier
Characterising the interface between large and small-scale mining
Mining heterogeneity
At an extractive pace
Mining temporalities
A different kind of formal
The subterranean state
Oil extraction and Indigenous women
Fried eggs and all-women gangs
Transforming matters
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Local institutions and artisanal mining
Uneven ores
Artisanal and small-scale mining through a “labour regime” lens
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Wenn Natur technisierte Gesellschaft stabilisieren soll
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EIAs, power and political ecology
Amalgamation
Feminist political ecologies of extraction
Mining, expectations and turbulent times
Mining Temporalities
Institutional coalescence and illegal small scale gold mining in Ghana
Gold and geo-uncertainty in the making
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)
Les intermédiaires locaux dans la topographie politique de la gouvernance minière au Cameroun
Artisanat minier
L’essor de l’activité minière à l’Ouest du Kenya
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Mineral commons
Hybrid territorialisation
Gold Is a Spirit
Underground Multiculturalism
Corporate sovereignty
International Joint Ventures in Industrial Gold Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Harm-Production in Sudan
The artisanal underground
The invisible lives of cobalt miners and green traceability discourses
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Expanding 'in-depth geopolitics
Resource politics and the impact of Chinese involvement in small-scale mining in Ghana
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Science in action
Mutual Life, Limited
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Liquidated
Enacting the Corporation
Social Power and the Urbanization of Water
Aerial Life
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The Perils of Belonging
Friction
Not Ours Alone
Traditional Authority Revisited
Land use competition between small- and large-scale miners
An overview of land use conflicts in mining communities
Digging Deep for Justice
Everyday Morality
The future of artisanal miners from a large-scale perspective
Autochthony
The city as a hybrid
The Mise en Valeur of the Gold Mines in the Haut-Niger, 1918–1939
To move or not to move
Strained relations
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Territory, now in 3D
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Access and Property
Out of the Pits
The Politics of Property Rights
Seeing Like a State
The Evolution of Social Systems
Seeing Like an Oil Company
Introduction
Seeing like an oil company's CHM programme
Walls and white elephants
Resource Wars
A Theory of Access
Epilogue
Governing access to gold in Ghana
| Unique citing works | 53 |
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| Citations per year | 5,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |