Journal
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES AND SOCIETY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 253-259Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2018.02.006
Keywords
West Africa; Burkina Faso; Guinee Conakry; Gold; Artisanal and small-scale mining; Economic cycles; Socio-technical change; Timescapes; Temporalities
Categories
Funding
- AngloGold Ashanti
- canton of Geneva (Switzerland)
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This article analyses the socio-political transformations observed in two artisanal gold mining sites in West Africa (Guinee Conakry and Burkina Faso), linked to economic cycles and technical innovations. The notion of timescape(s) is employed to underline the intertwining of the spatial and temporal dimensions of mining, and to show the contradictory movements of compression and release of space and time to which local modes of production and institutional settings have been exposed. These transformations have generated shifts in the power to make time - that is, to define the rhythms and duration of work in the present and to plan mining activities in the future - triggering political reconfigurations in order to (re)appropriate control over the resource.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available