Spaces of Responsibility: Negotiating Industrial Gold Mining in Burkina Faso (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783110689969)

Spaces of Responsibility explores the role of ethics in (re)ordering extractive relations under the global condition. Through an empirical investigation of actors, places, and ideas in and around Burkina Faso's industrial gold mining sector, this volume carries out an anti-essentialist yet critical examination, offering new insights into global mining capitalism. Corporate concession-making practices, the implementation of (national) mining legislation, and civil society interventions in mining areas all contribute in different ways to the dialectics of the global. Accordingly, the ongoing territorialization of mining investment often has considerable impacts on the well-being of populations in the Global South. At the same time, multinational corporations today cannot completely distance or isolate themselves from the political, economic, and social contexts they are interacting in and with. Drawing on theoretical debates about the links between resource extraction and socio-economic development, multi-scalar negotiations of ethics in mining governance are ethnographically retraced. In terms of gains and benefits, these negotiations manifest themselves spatially, providing access for some actors while excluding others.

Author: Diana Ayeh
ISBN-10: 3110689960
ISBN-13: 9783110689969
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2021
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d