... colonialism Christianity mining development alluvial miners Porgera Gold Mine ...

... epistemology conspiracy hysteria fetish informalization gold mining ...

... terror forced displacement oil palm gold mining ...

... ontology gold mining cultural change political ecology ...

.... This chapter also traces the buildup to large-scale development of the Porgera Gold Mine that opened in 1990 and highlights that gold, guns, and the Bible remain essential elements of Porgeran identity today. colonialism Christianity mining development alluvial miners Porgera Gold Mine ...

... life gold mining resource extraction antimining activism referenda pollution health defense of territory development precision and uncertainty voting grassroots organizing chemical exposures environmental damage ...

... and winds of hope that blew across the Pacific lowlands in the early 1990s. terror forced displacement oil palm gold mining ...

... This chapter examines the technologies of mega-mining used at the Yanacocha gold mine in Cajamarca. To distance their operations from the problematic legacy of environmental degradation in mining areas such as the Central Highlands, transnational corporations have sought to create a new image...

... This chapter examines the world of informal and illegal gold mining in South Africa and reflects on the fact that conspiracy theories about gold (including its hoarding, concealment, and theft) have often relied upon gold as a figure of the real and the true at the same time as it has been...

... Chapter 4, “Afterlives of Gold,” concerns the twenty-first-century Sino-African global color line that forces an examination of racial capitalism beyond Black and white. It reads the China Malls through the mine, giving an account of the labor dynamics at China City mall while drawing out...

... a Canadian company inaugurated an open-pit gold mine in the indigenous province of San Marcos. In response, when local residents held a consulta , or referendum, in which 98 percent rejected the mine, the province became the epicenter of what is now a national movement to make (mainly) indigenous people...

... prospectors and Christian missionaries entered the valley, initiating Porgeran involvement with the outside world. This chapter also traces the buildup to large-scale development of the Porgera Gold Mine that opened in 1990 and highlights that gold, guns, and the Bible remain essential elements of Porgeran...

... systems. The chapter ends with a discussion of the agency of gold and how gold mining in particular has lent itself to perceptions of the land ending in Porgera. development resilience ontology myth environmental degradation ...

... The spraying of inside walls of houses with insecticides has regained popularity in malaria control. In Ghana it was a corporate social responsibility project of a major gold-mining company that has brought insecticide spraying firmly back as a national agenda. Taking the project of the gold...