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... and continues today, and the third reflects on the proliferation of cooperative mining, illegal mining, and jukeo (ore theft) in the early 2020s. Overall, the afterword shows how material histories of nature and nation, as traced in preceding chapters, can help explain these contemporary eruptions...

... 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...

...The Force of Capital 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...

..., despite the absence of schools in his community, and how literacy became his most important political tool. The chapter describes the abusive practices of local hacendados, or landlords, including the illegal seizures of community livestock and land theft. This chapter reveals the terrible suffering...

... between socialism and indigenismo. Like the heterodox Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui, whom he met in 1927, Marof sought to root socialism in Andean soil. He was an early and prominent advocate for nationalization of the mines and for agrarian reform to overthrow what he saw as the feudal order...

... to guarantee a basic income. Starting in 1997, the Banzer government began to phase out the compensation payments and declared a cut-off date after which any coca field in the “excess” zone of the Chapare would be automatically illegal and could be eradicated by the military at any moment without consultation...