Resource extraction exists in diverse settings across the world and is carried out through different practices. The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as interrelated and coexisting features within the global minescape. The book brings together scholars from various fields, such as anthropology, geography, sociology and political science, examining ethnographic case studies throughout the Americas (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, USA), Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Europe (Italy, Arctic Norway and Spain).
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The book is well-designed and well-situated within the literature It will provide a valuable comparative resource on two aspects of mining less frequently discussed the comparisons across space and time and the post-mining context. Elizabeth Ferry, Brandeis University
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Introduction: Timescapes of Extraction
Antonio Maria Pusceddu and Filippo M. Zerilli
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1. Frontier Spaces in the Arctic and the Andes: The Miner, the
Smuggler and Performances of (Post)extractivism
Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard
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2. Technological Promises of Green Extractivism in Historical
Minescapes: Narratives and Materiality of Mining Revival in Andalusian
Wastelands
Doris Buu-Sao
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3. Unearthing the Buried Past of Brazils Former Gold Mines
Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos
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4. How Industrial and Artisanal Extraction Shape a City: On Urban
Planning Flaws, Encroaching Open Pits and Backyard Mining in a Congolese
Mining Town
Kristien Geenen
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5. Mining Life Cycles and Indigenous Land Dispossession in North
America: A View from the American West
Paul White
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6. Contentious Legacies: Post-Mining and Heritage-Making in the
Italian Alps
Roberta Clara Zanini
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7. Uranium Mining in New Mexico: Global Entanglements, Earth
Relations, and Awkward Ways
Targol Mesbah
Afterword: Whats to Come: Mining in a Fevered World
David Kideckel
Antonio Maria Pusceddu is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Recent publications include Southern Chronicles: The Political Ecology of Class in the Italian Industrial Periphery (Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2022) and Grassroots Ecologies of Value: Environmental Conflict and Social Reproduction in Southern Italy (Antipode, 2020).
