Undermining the 'Local
Migration, Development and Gold in Southern Kayes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3636475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Dell (North-West State Technical University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 584-603 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07256868.2013.827828 |
| OpenAlex | W1967714401 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
For nearly a century, successive authorities in Mali have created a ‘local’ identity in southern Kayes that naturalises state authority and justifies various interventions in the name of ‘development’. This identity has been used as a pretext for agricultural development policies that attempt to limit people's geographical and political mobility and access to one of the region's most valuable natural resources – gold. Populations in southern Kayes, however, through artisanal gold mining (orpaillage), migration and transnational protest movements, have resisted both this ‘identity’ and the state interventions influenced by it, constructing competing political systems that challenge official discourse and state power. Today, as both governance and resistance to it become increasingly transnational, questions about the meaning of ‘local’ and ‘localness’ have become particularly salient. Rather than disappearing, however, the category has become entrenched in new power hierarchies that include migrant hometown associations, NGOs, mining companies and state governments
Business · Corporate governance · Development economics · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Pretext · Sociology · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Law · Mining and Resource Management
Power, difference and mobility
From Colonialism to Keita Comparing Pre- And Post-Independence Regimes (1946-1968)
Agricultural Poverty’ and the Expansion of Artisanal Mining in Sub-Saharan Africa
International migration, remittances and development
Those in Kayes
De-agrarianization, re-agrarianization and local economic development
Environmental Decline and Ecological Response in the Upper Senegal Valley, West Africa, from the Late Nineteenth Century to World War I
The lure of Bambuk gold
Migration for ‘white man's work
Racism, migration and development
Settlement, Transnational Communities and Citizenship
Les associations de Maliens immigrés en France. Entre pays d'origine et implication dans la vie locale
Les chercheurs d'or et la construction d'identités de migrants en Afrique de l'Ouest
Entre Saint-Denis et le Mali, une citoyenneté sur deux continents
L'éthique sociale du damansen
Aides au "retour volontaire" et réinsertion au Mali
Individualism, Community, and Cooperatives in the Development Thinking of the Union Soudanaise-RDA, 1946-1960
Internal Migrations and Population Movements in the Upper Senegal Valley (West Africa), 1890-1920
Spatializing States
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |