Digging for Survival and/or Justice? The Drivers of Illegal Mining Activities in Western Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3751139 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew (0000-0002-9373-5537), Natalie Andrews (0000-0002-3572-2316, corresponding author), Andrews Andrews |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 3 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/africatoday.62.2.3 |
| OpenAlex | W2299641399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 34 |
In Ghana, an artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activity called galamsey is considered illegal because operators have not formally registered their sites with the government. Because of recent cases of the involvement of non-Ghanaian nationals in this activity, the government has established the Inter-Ministerial Task Force Against Illegal Mining to curb its growth. However, this endeavor has failed to account for how the absence of socioeconomic safety nets in most mining communities has led many families, including children, into such a business. Drawing upon primary data gathered at Abosso, a galamsey site in the Western Region of Ghana, this article argues that until the underlying causes of socioeconomic marginalization and unemployment are properly addressed, the quest to regularize these operations will remain far-fetched
Archaeology · Criminology · Digging · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Geography · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Mining and Resource Management
Resource affordances and the broadening values of gold and mining governance in Ghana
Gold in Ghana
Chinese participation in Ghana's illegal small-scale gold mining
Large-scale mining and ecological imperialism in Africa
A quantitative content analysis of media framing of illegal mining in Ghana
Impacts of artisanal gold mining on livelihoods and water resources in Upper Denkyira East Municipality, Ghana
Moving in Cycles
Contested concept, competing narratives, and coercive policy intervention
Youth unemployment and illegal mining in South Africa
Eco-justice and human well-being in Ghana’s artisanal mining communities
Flying to uncover
When do firms respond to external pressure for environmental management? Insights from deterrence theory
Reflections of desynchronized neoliberalism in artisanal and small-scale mining
Constructing alternative interpretation
Gender and mining
Politics on display
Making visible the galamsey scandals in Ghana
Conflict, collusion and corruption in small-scale gold mining
Is a licence for small-scale mining a means, an end, or both? Politics of ASM formalisation and environmentally-responsible mining in Ghana
Emerging circular economy practices, environmental health risks, and the “tailings paradox” in Africa’s artisanal and small-scale mining
Extraction and Environmental Injustices
Normative spaces and the UN Global Compact for transnational corporations
Extractive industries as sites of supernormal profits and supernormal patriarchy
Who governs here? Informal resource extraction, state enforcement, and conflict in Ghana
Mineral exhaustion, livelihoods and persistence of vulnerabilities in ASM settings
Illegal’ gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa
Radical political economy and industrialisation in Africa
Health Issues of Mining Workers
Reconceptualizing the youth and waithood notions
Becoming a friend of the foe
Party political campaigning and the illegal extraction of gold in Ghana
Institutional coalescence and illegal small scale gold mining in Ghana
Environmental governance and political contestation in contexts of illegal small-scale gold mining in Ghana
Governance fragmentation and agency of miners in Ghana’s artisanal mining sector
Assessing shortcomings of Ghana’s anti-illegal mining reforms and drawing policy alternatives from Peru’s Operation Mercury
Small-scale mining, environmental destruction and democracy capture
When to Speak? Church Advocacy onGalamseyand Mental Health in Ghana
Challenges Associated with formalising Artisanal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana
Harvesting mineral riches
Challenges with eradicating illegal mining in Ghana
Mercury
Perspectives on female participation in artisanal and small-scale mining
Small-scale mining in Ghana
Re‐agrarianising Livelihoods in Post‐conflict Sierra Leone? Mineral Wealth and Rural Change in Artisanal and Small‐scale Mining Communities
Recognizing and nurturing artisanal mining as a viable livelihood
A dangerous bet
Trends in the small-scale mining of precious minerals in Ghana
Sustainable solution or a marriage of inconvenience? The coexistence of large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining on the Abosso Goldfields concession in Western Ghana
‘Soon there will be no-one left to take the corpses to the morgue’
Why Is Illegal Gold Mining Activity so Ubiquitous in Rural Ghana?
Gender and labour force inequality in small-scale gold mining in Ghana
‘Everyone Now is Concentrating on the Mining’
Artisanal Gold Mining
Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Alleviating Poverty in Mining Communities? Experiences from Ghana
Digging to Survive
Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa
Once a miner, always a miner’
Family Hardship and Cultural Values
Gold Digging Careers in Rural East Africa
Corporate Social Responsibility and Canadian Mining Companies in the Developing World
Poverty traps in small-scale mining communities
Agricultural Poverty’ and the Expansion of Artisanal Mining in Sub-Saharan Africa
Contaminated identities
To move or not to move
The Subject of Power
The environmental impact of small-scale gold mining in Ghana
Going for gold
Surviving through movement
Child Labour in African Artisanal Mining Communities
Occupying the Margins
Structural Adjustment and Subsistence Industry
Poverty alleviation in rural Malawi
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |