‘Soon there will be no-one left to take the corpses to the morgue’: Accumulation and abjection in Ghana's mining communities

Bush, Ray

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2008.02.002

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“…it might actually instead be the manifestation of resistance by miners and others to the global economy'. More recently, Bush (2009) drew upon ideas put forward by Harvey (2003) in an attempt to extend the argument to Ghana specifically, contesting that 'galamsey or small-scale unlicensed artisanal miners offer a strategy of resistance to state mining policy and foreign mining company operations' (Bush, 2009: 57). Findings gathered in villages located on a concession awarded to the mining giant, Gold Fields Ltd, in the Western Region, an epicentre of large-scale, mechanised gold mining activity in the country, were used to build the case:…”

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‘Everyone Now is Concentrating on the Mining’: Drivers and Implications of Rural Economic Transition in the Eastern Region of Ghana

Hilson

Garforth

2013

The Journal of Development Studies

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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is replacing smallholder farming as the principal income source in parts of rural Ghana. Structural adjustment policies have removed support for the country's smallholders, devalued their produce substantially and stiffened competition with large-scale counterparts. Over one million people nationwide are now engaged in ASM. Findings from qualitative research in Ghana's Eastern Region are drawn upon to improve understanding of the factors driving this pattern of rural livelihood diversification. The ASM sector and farming are shown to be complementary, contrary to common depictions in policy and academic literature.

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‘Everyone Now is Concentrating on the Mining’: Drivers and Implications of Rural Economic Transition in the Eastern Region of Ghana

Hilson

Garforth

2013

The Journal of Development Studies

107

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“…Recent power maneuvers in Zimbabwe's mining sector can also be understood in relation to other cases in Africa whereby coercive policing tactics have produced undesirable consequences in artisanal mining communities, as documented, for example, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Geenen 2013) and Ghana (Hilson and Yakovleva 2007;Bush 2009), albeit in vastly different political circumstances. The period discussed in this study constitutes a particularly difficult period for mining populations in Zimbabwe, where increasing numbers of people from diverse backgrounds have become dependent on artisanal mining for income in numerous parts of the country.…”

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Shifting Formalization Policies and Recentralizing Power: The Case of Zimbabwe's Artisanal Gold Mining Sector

Spiegel

2015

Society & Natural Resources

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“…Galafassi clasi ca a la "destrucción de las condiciones ambientales, comunitarias y regionales" como un ejemplo de "la validez actual de los procesos de la llamada acumulación primitiva" (2010,472). Varios autores (Machado Aráoz 2010;Garibay Orozco 2010;Perreault 2012;Ayelazuno 2011;Bush 2009;, y Gordon y Webber, 2008 en el caso de la "relocalización" de glaciares con el megaproyecto Pascua-Lama, en Chile) comparten este análisis y consideran la destrucción del medio ambiente como formas de desposesión en el sentido expresado por Harvey. Se trata de un tipo de desposesión que afecta en particular a las comunidades campesinas, las cuales son particularmente vulnerables a la destrucción de ecosistemas y el abatimiento de acuíferos.…”

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Megaminería y desposesión en el Sur: un análisis comparativo

Sacher

2015

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ResumenEn este artículo evalúo la pertinencia del concepto de acumulación por desposesión para el análisis de la megaminería en África y América Latina. Inventarío y clasi co diferentes tipos de procesos de desposesión relacionados con la actividad minera a gran escala en ambas regiones. Evidencio la pertinencia de esta categoría para los dos contextos y su capacidad como teoría para captar elementos esenciales de la dinámica del capitalismo a nivel global. Los procesos constitutivos de acumulación por desposesión vinculados a la megaminería son muy similares en ambas regiones, lo que evidencia que las luchas sociales emprendidas contra la megaminería en los dos continentes tienen determinantes globales comunes y por tanto, existe un potencial para formar alianzas entre éstas.Descriptores: Acumulación por desposesión, megaminería, África, América Latina, imperialismo, con ictos mineros. AbstractIn the present article, I evaluate the relevance of the concept of accumulation by dispossession in the case of large-scale mining in Africa and Latin America. I inventory and classify various types of dispossession processes associated with the implementation of large-scale mining activities in both regions. I evidence the relevance of this category in these two contexts, and its theoretical power, by showing how it captures essential elements of the dynamics of capitalism at the global level. In both regions, the processes constitutive of accumulation by dispossession are very similar. Social struggles against large-scale mining on both continents share common global determinants. is evidences the possibility of south-south alliances between these struggles.Keywords: Accumulation by dispossession, large-scale mining, Africa, Latin America, imperialism, mining con icts. d o s s i e r ResumenNeste artigo, avalio a pertinência do conceito de acumulação por expropriação para a análise da mega-mineração na África e América Latina. Inventario e classi co diferentes tipos de processos de expropriação vinculados à atividade mineira a grande escala em ambas as regiões. Evidencio a pertinência desta categoria para os dois contextos e sua capacidade como teoria para captar elementos essenciais da dinâmica do capitalismo a nível global. Os processos constitutivos de acumulação por expropriação vinculados à mega-mineração são muitos similares em ambas as regiões, o que evidencia que as lutas sociais empreendidas nos dois continentes contra a mega-mineração têm determinantes globais comuns e, portanto, existe um potencial para formar alianças entre estas.Descritores: Acumulação por expropriação, mega-mineração, África, América Latina, imperialismo, con itos mineiros. A lo largo de la última década, el concepto de "acumulación por desposesión" de David Harvey ha sido usado por muchos estudiosos, quienes han valorado su capacidad para explicar aspectos dominantes de la dinámica del capitalismo en la era neoliberal. En el presente artículo, mi objetivo es, en primer lugar, recopilar la literatura que ha usado esta categoría como marco t...

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‘Soon there will be no-one left to take the corpses to the morgue’: Accumulation and abjection in Ghana's mining communities

Cited by 99 publications

References 12 publications

‘Everyone Now is Concentrating on the Mining’: Drivers and Implications of Rural Economic Transition in the Eastern Region of Ghana

‘Everyone Now is Concentrating on the Mining’: Drivers and Implications of Rural Economic Transition in the Eastern Region of Ghana

Shifting Formalization Policies and Recentralizing Power: The Case of Zimbabwe's Artisanal Gold Mining Sector

Megaminería y desposesión en el Sur: un análisis comparativo

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