Configuring the living environment in mining areas in Angola: Contestations between mining companies, workers, local communities and the state

Rodrigues, Cristina Udelsmann

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2017.10.001

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“…Most young people had little familiarity with smallholder agriculture, and older people were unlikely to rush back to farming after years away from the sector. Thus, local people's lack of formal education left them with no option other than diamond‐digging (Pearce, 2001; 2004; Marques, 2011; Caetano and Reis, 2013; Udelsmann Rodrigues, 2017b).…”

Section: Occupational Dynamicsmentioning

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MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction

Bryceson¹,

Gough²,

Jønsson³

et al. 2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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We are grateful to the UK Department for International Development (DfID) and the Economic Research Council for funding . Thanks go to the key informants and miners and residents of our surveyed mining settlements in Angola, Ghana and Tanzania. We dedicate this article to our colleague and friend Professor Paul Yankson, who sadly passed away in early 2021. -MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction deborAh fAhy bryceson, KATherIne V. gough, Jesper bosse Jønsson, crIspIn KInAbo, mIchAel clArKe shAnd, crIsTInA udelsmAnn rodrIgues And pAul W.K. yAnKson

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Section: Occupational Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction

Bryceson¹,

Gough²,

Jønsson³

et al. 2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Country-level governance frameworks for mining-induced resettlement

Owen

Vivoda

Kemp

2019

Environ Dev Sustain

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Fatal architectures and death by design: the infrastructures of state-sponsored climate disasters in Angola and Mozambique

Blanes

2023

Review of African Political Economy

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This article addresses how African states respond to climate crisis, arguing that, beyond the agency and impact of climate phenomena such as drought and cyclones, they are active participants in the production of climate disasters and emergencies, mostly through infrastructural processes that affect land and resource use, and subsequently livelihoods. To demonstrate this, it uses the cases of the drought in southwestern Angola and cyclones in northern and central Mozambique, where such climate phenomena have exposed ‘fatal architectures’ that have dramatically raised the toll of climate victims and refugees. Both extractivist, agro-industrial and hydroelectric projects, as well as other, more deferred infrastructural designs (roads, communication networks, etc.) have challenged the traditional agency and resilience of local communities. Such new infrastructural projects also illustrate how certain perceived long-term solutions to address the climate crisis with industrial and energy reconversion towards greener energies can still become fatal architectures in the context of climate emergencies.

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Configuring the living environment in mining areas in Angola: Contestations between mining companies, workers, local communities and the state

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction

MINERALIZED URBANIZATION IN AFRICA IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY: Becoming Urban through Mining Extraction

Country-level governance frameworks for mining-induced resettlement

Fatal architectures and death by design: the infrastructures of state-sponsored climate disasters in Angola and Mozambique

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