{"product_id":"shifting-livelihoods-daniel-tubb-9780295747521","title":"Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeople employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining companies prospect for open-pit mega-mines. Drug traffickers launder cocaine profits by smuggling gold into Colombia and claiming it came from fictitious small-scale mines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, \u003ci\u003eShifting Livelihoods\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how resource extraction reshapes a place. In the Chocó, gold enables forms of \"shift\" (\u003ci\u003erebusque\u003c\/i\u003e)--a metaphor for the fluid livelihood strategy adopted by forest dwellers and migrant gold miners alike as they seek informal work amid a drug war. Mining's effects on rural people, corporations, and politics are on view in this fine-grained account of daily life in a regional economy dominated by gold and cocaine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Tubb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295747528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295747521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2021","brand":"Daniel Tubb","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941233033471,"sku":"9780295747521","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7d90b61e-f717-464e-adaa-dbc34b759c02.jpg?v=1681451706","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shifting-livelihoods-daniel-tubb-9780295747521","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}