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Spaces of Responsibility

Negotiating Industrial Gold Mining in Burkina Faso
  • Diana Ayeh
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021
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Dialectics of the Global
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Spaces of Responsibility explores the role of ethics in (re)ordering extractive relations under the global condition. Through an empirical investigation of actors, places, and ideas in and around Burkina Faso’s industrial gold mining sector, this volume carries out an anti-essentialist yet critical examination, offering new insights into global mining capitalism. Corporate concession-making practices, the implementation of (national) mining legislation, and civil society interventions in mining areas all contribute in different ways to the dialectics of the global. Accordingly, the ongoing territorialization of mining investment often has considerable impacts on the well-being of populations in the Global South. At the same time, multinational corporations today cannot completely distance or isolate themselves from the political, economic, and social contexts they are interacting in and with. Drawing on theoretical debates about the links between resource extraction and socio-economic development, multi-scalar negotiations of ethics in mining governance are ethnographically retraced. In terms of gains and benefits, these negotiations manifest themselves spatially, providing access for some actors while excluding others.

Author / Editor information

Diana Ayeh, Research Associate at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany.

Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 20, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110690163
Hardcover published on:
September 20, 2021
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110689969
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
16
Main content:
352
Illustrations:
2
Coloured Illustrations:
11
Tables:
1
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