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Published: 10 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373056-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7305-6
... This chapter analyzes the polysemous understandings of responsibility that animate corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the global mining industry, which is criticized for promoting a shift from government-enforced regulation of industry to more devolved and voluntary governance, allowing...
Published: 09 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... neoliberalism mining industry equivalence mining conflicts political ecology ...
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375869-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... perceptible (or imperceptible), politically significant, and the focus of controversy. neoliberalism mining industry equivalence mining conflicts political ecology ...
Published: 18 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059998-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5999-8
... lineages of migrant mine workers. The chapter shows how Chinese labor regimes remake key features of the colonial mining industry such as the devaluation of “Black labor” ( heigong ), methods of discipline, and forms of social reproduction. The chapter also examines African workers’ practices of resistance...
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Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-040
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... The founder of the Aramayo mining dynasty, José Avelino Aramayo (1809–82) was a prominent advocate of industrial modernization, which he had witnessed under way during his travels in Europe. He championed Bolivia’s potential to attain the economic level of its neighbors Argentina and Chile...
Published: 10 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027263-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9368-8
... of the racial contract. Nowhere is this more visible than in the mining industry that birthed Johannesburg. South African mining epitomized racial capitalism (a concept that first took root among anti-apartheid activists) and its central role in the Anthropocene. The relentless pursuit of profit and privilege...
Series: Elements
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027768-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2776-8
... This chapter analyzes Llallagua-Uncía’s industrial ruins , a category that includes old buildings, machinery, and waste rock left behind by twentieth-century mining practices. Drawing on walking interviews conducted with cooperative miners and other town residents, the chapter explores how...
Book: Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness
Published: 29 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060321-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6032-1
..., emphasizing the experience of the Afro-Indian female subject in the afterlife of indentureship, Modisakeng focuses on the figure of the African migrant laborer in relationship to the coal mining industry. This chapter situates vulnerability as a feminine and feminized orientation toward the world and examines...
Published: 18 December 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5999-8
..., the memory and legacies of gold mining live on in the political consciousness of China City’s African migrant workers from Malawi and Zimbabwe, many of whom come from lineages of migrant mine workers. The chapter shows how Chinese labor regimes remake key features of the colonial mining industry...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-037
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... Enlightenment authors like Benjamin Constant, Jeremy Bentham, Gaetano Filangieri, Montesquieu, and Jean-Baptiste Say. The Villager questioned whether Bolivia was really independent and free, painting a portrait of “misery” five years after independence: the mining industry was in ruins and the manufacturing...
Published: 09 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
..., this chapter situates recent conflicts over mining within national debates and historical processes. Over La Oroya’s history, toxic emissions have been variously treated as a problem of industrial hygiene and occupational health, and more recently, as an environmental and public health concern affecting local...
Published: 10 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027263-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9368-8
... Mine lands are omnipresent in South Africa's endless debates about land reform. Asbestos, platinum, chromium, iron: all of South Africa's mines have toxic afterlives. Their leakages, debris, and emanations continue to time-bomb the future. In Gauteng, planners, policy makers, and activists see...
Published: 10 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027263-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9368-8
... A century of gold and uranium mining hollowed out South Africa's Witwatersrand plateau. After the closure of these mines, water rose through the shafts, spilling acid mine drainage loaded with uranium, arsenic, and other harmful metals onto agricultural fields and into drinking water...
Published: 10 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7305-6
... This chapter analyzes the polysemous understandings of responsibility that animate corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the global mining industry, which is criticized for promoting a shift from government-enforced regulation of industry to more devolved and voluntary governance, allowing corporations...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-038
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... Bentham, Gaetano Filangieri, Montesquieu, and Jean-Baptiste Say. The Villager questioned whether Bolivia was really independent and free, painting a portrait of “misery” five years after independence: the mining industry was in ruins and the manufacturing and agricultural sectors in decline...
Published: 29 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059288-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5928-8
... resources (rendered toward the telos of industrialization) get made into a subjective category that cojoins inhuman materials and the status of Black life into the inhumanity of carceral conditions. Historically focused on the convict lease and mining in Alabama, this chapter demonstrates how Black spatial...
Published: 29 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059288-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5928-8
... undergrounds that could grow, move, and reproduce. In other words, placing carceral mines in their historic racialized geographies disrupts the narrative of national “progress” that is articulated through architectural infrastructures of iron and steel in industrialization, and demonstrates the white spatial...
Published: 10 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027263-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9368-8
... Mine waste areas in Johannesburg are so colossal that you can see them from space. These giant tailings piles have structured the city's spatial layout and infrastructures since its inception, with Black residents shunted downwind and downstream from the toxic mountains, a situation that still...
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375869-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... conflicts over mining within national debates and historical processes. Over La Oroya’s history, toxic emissions have been variously treated as a problem of industrial hygiene and occupational health, and more recently, as an environmental and public health concern affecting local residents, the neighboring...
Published: 10 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027263-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9368-8
... A century of mining turned South Africa's Rand inside out, producing colossal tailings piles that bisect the city of Johannesburg. Apartheid intensified the discrimination wrought by mine dust, placing millions of Black residents downwind of the dump band. Still today, winter winds blow...
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