Slow violence, extraction and human rights defence in Tanzania: Notes from the field

Holterman, Devin

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2014.04.003

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“…More commonplace is the intrusion of small-scale miners onto mine sites to access tailings and other mining opportunities. Despite theft and violence, Tanzania's mines have continued to produce at a high level (Holeterman 2014).…”

Section: Negative Externalities: the Costs Borne By Mining Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mining in Africa: Are Local Communities Better Off?

Chuhan-Pole¹,

Dabalen²,

Land³

2017

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This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent, or the Agence Française de Développement. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or waiver of the privileges and immunities of The World Bank, all of which are specifically reserved.

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Section: Negative Externalities: the Costs Borne By Mining Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mining in Africa: Are Local Communities Better Off?

Chuhan-Pole¹,

Dabalen²,

Land³

2017

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“…: Farmer, 2004;Gupta, 2012;Holmes, 2013). Географы и антропологи показывают, как сочетание концепции медленного насилия с этнографическими методами позволяет по-новому и критически взглянуть на ряд тематик, таких как вытеснение и травма в городах (Kern, 2016;Pain, 2019), скрытый расизм в интимных отношениях (Leeuw, 2016), экологический расизм и токсичные географии (Ahmann, 2018; Davies, 2018Davies, , 2019, последствия войн (Touhouliotis, 2018) и насильственный отъем земли (Holterman, 2014). Подобное сочетание эмпирически подтверждает, что медленное насилие стало неотъемлемой частью жизни во многих регионах мира, что оно связано с разными условиями, районами и процессами и что его последствия неравномерно распределены по социальным позициям и территориям.…”

Section: исследовательская проблемаunclassified

Ethnographies of Slow Violence: Studying the Effects of Rural Disintegration

Vorbrugg¹

2020

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ch. The article considers the nexus of slow violence as a concept, research focus and problem-on the one hand, and the practices and politics of ethnographic fieldwork and writing-on the other hand. It highlights two aspects; first, the epistemological alliances between researchers and research participants which confront forms of violence that as if remain partly elusive to both sides; second, the multi-temporal ethnographies that work through drawn-out and complex timescapes of violence by tracing cross-temporal connections. The notions of fieldwork are still defined mainly in spatial terms, and so the issue of slow violence is an important reminder to pay more attention to the temporal dimension. The article demonstrates how rural dwellers make sense of complex changes and loss by using the ruins of disintegration as signifiers, and how researchers can draw on this in their analysis. It is based on the ethnographic research conducted in rural Russia which shows how the concept of slow violence helps to make sense of and to make visible the forms of loss and dispossession that often remain elusive in academic and public representations of the Russian countryside.

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“…Mining Act, which strongly promoted foreign direct investment, Tanzania has experienced a mining boom, and gold has become a major export commodity (Bryceson & Jønsson, 2010;Schroeder, 2012). International mining companies' FIGURE 2 SAGCOT (2011) and land deals for large-scale agriculture in Tanzania (Landmatrix, 2016) large-scale investments and extraction methods are barely taxed by the Tanzanian state, 9 generate little employment, have led to displacement of hundreds of thousands of artisanal miners, and have polluted the environments of farmers and pastoralists living close to mines (Emel, Huber, & Makene, 2011;Holterman, 2014;Kitula, 2006;Magai & Márquez-Velázquez, 2011;Schroeder, 2012). Tanzanian mining laws are ambiguous and vest much power in the Commissioner of Mining, whereas villagers have little say in mining concession allocations (Lange, 2008).…”

Section: Miningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Between dependence and deprivation: The interlocking nature of land alienation in Tanzania

Bluwstein

Lund

Askew

et al. 2018

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Studies of accumulation by dispossession in the Global South tend to focus on individual sectors, for example, large‐scale agriculture or nature conservation. Yet smallholder farmers and pastoralists are affected by multiple processes of land alienation. Drawing on the case of Tanzania, we illustrate the analytical purchase of a comprehensive examination of dynamics of land alienation across multiple sectors. To begin with, processes of land alienation through investments in agriculture, mining, conservation, and tourism dovetail with a growing social differentiation and class formation. These dynamics generate unequal patterns of land deprivation and accumulation that evolve in a context of continued land dependency for the vast majority of the rural population. Consequently, land alienation engenders responses by individuals and communities seeking to maintain control over their means of production. These responses include migration, land tenure formalization, and land transactions, that propagate across multiple localities and scales, interlocking with and further reinforcing the effects of land alienation. Various localized processes of primitive accumulation contribute to a scramble for land in the aggregate, providing justifications for policies that further drive land alienation.

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Slow violence, extraction and human rights defence in Tanzania: Notes from the field

Cited by 20 publications

References 5 publications

Mining in Africa: Are Local Communities Better Off?

Mining in Africa: Are Local Communities Better Off?

Ethnographies of Slow Violence: Studying the Effects of Rural Disintegration

Between dependence and deprivation: The interlocking nature of land alienation in Tanzania

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