Robert Jan Pijpers

Mining and Development in Sierra Leone (eBook, ePUB)

Negotiating Change and Navigating Uncertainty

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate the conditions of life. Of use to students and scholars working on resource extraction, large-scale investments, globalization, and development, as well as to development practitioners, mining professionals and policymakers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040186701
• Artikelnr.: 72277047

Autorenporträt

Robert Jan Pijpers is a senior researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany. He is co-editor of The Anthropology of Resource Extraction (Routledge, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Mining
Development
and Uncertainty 2. Sierra Leone's Turbulent History 3. Hot-spot Marampa 4. Mining
Hope
and Expectations 5. Mining and the Politics of Time 6. Mining
Belonging
and Localness 7. Mining and Landed Relations in Sierra Leone 8. Ambiguous Networks in Sierra Leone 9. Conclusion: Negotiating Change and Navigating Uncertainty