Mining Africa : law, environment, society and politics in historical and multidisciplinary perspectives /

This book is a pacesetter in matters of mining and the environment in Africa from multidisciplinary and spatio-temporal perspectives. The book approaches mining from the perspectives of law, politics, archaeology, anthropology, African studies, geography, human ecology, sociology, history, economics...

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Other Authors: Warikandwa, Tapiwa V. (Editor), Nhemachena, Artwell (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017.
Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2017]
[Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective
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Table of Contents:
  • On the challenges of African mining and environments in the new world order : an introduction / Artwell Nhemachena and Tapiwa V. Warikandwa
  • When did the rain start to beat us? Discursive dispossession and the political economies of misrecognition about African mining / Artwell Nhemachena and Esther Dhakwa
  • Archaeological technologies of gold mining and processing and their relationship to contemporary chikorokoza : the case of Mutanda Site, Mutare, Zimbabwe / Njabulo Chipangura
  • Unsung heroes? An anthropological approach into the experiences of 'zamazamas' in Johannesburg, South Africa / Phefumula Nyoni
  • Zamazama : livelihood strategies, mobilisation and resistance in Johannesburg, South Africa / Janet Munakamwe
  • What indigenous agricultural communities have to say? Transnational corporate social responsibility and the mining environment in Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality, Ghana / Artwell Nhemachena and Christopher Dick-Sagoe
  • Re-thinking mining in embattled Africa : a calculative sociological logic / Oliver Mtapuri
  • Towards a pan-Africanist mining regulatory framework for Africa : drawing lessons from the pre-colonial customary law based mining practices / Tapiwa V. Warikandwa & Ndatega V. Asheela
  • Towards the promotion of corporate social responsibility and the adequacy of mining laws in Zimbabwe / Howard Chitimira & Moment Tembo
  • Political governance and resource exploitation in Cameroon : challenges and prospects / Jean-Pierre Wome
  • Aligning the mining sector with sustainable development in Namibia / Michelle Munyanduki
  • Exposing the emperors' flawed (neo- )colonial template : charting a contemporary regulatory framework for Africa's mining sector / Tapiwa V. Warikandwa and Artwell Nhemachena.