The anthropology of resource extraction

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    • D'Angelo, Lorenzo
    • Pijpers, Robert Jan

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The anthropology of resource extraction

edited by Lorenzo D'Angelo and Robert Jan Pijpers

(Routledge studies of the extractive industries and sustainable development)(Earthscan from Routledge)

Routledge, 2022

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical strategies and environmental concerns for the future of humanity. Scholars have widely debated the economic and sociological aspects of resource management in our societies, offering interesting and useful abstractions. However, anthropologists offer different and fresh perspectives - sometimes complementary and at other times alternative to these abstractions - based on field researches conducted in close contact with those actors (individuals as well as groups and institutions) that manipulate, anticipate, fight for, or resist the extractive processes in many creative ways. Thus, while addressing questions such as: "What characterizes the anthropology of resource extraction?", "What topics in the context of resource extraction have anthropologists studied?", and "What approaches and insights have emerged from this?", this book synthesizes and analyses a range of anthropological debates about the ways in which different actors extract, use, manage, and think about resources. This comprehensive volume will serve as a key reading for scholars and students within the social sciences working on resource extraction and those with an interest in natural resources, environment, capitalism, and globalization. It will also be a useful resource for practitioners within mining and development.

Table of Contents

1. The Anthropology of Resource Extraction: An Introduction 2. Corporations 3. Development 4. Environmental Change 5. Governance 6. Materiality and Substances 7. Mineworkers 8. Positionality and Ethics 9. Sustainability 10. Technology 11. Underground 12. Water and Conflict 13. Final Reflections and Future Agendas

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