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Title 'We have so many challenges': small-scale mining, Covid-19 and constant interruptions in West Africa
Full text https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678322/2021/37/2; https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3217328
Date 2021
Author(s) Pijpers, R.J.; Luning, S.W.J.
Abstract Currently, the impacts of Covid-19 are receiving significant global attention. This also applies to the extractive industries, where this global crisis is directing the gaze of policymakers, donors and academics alike. Covid-19 is seen as having far-reaching and disruptive consequences, especially in the case of artisanal and small-scale mining. While the authors consider this attention important, their work on artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana ' and West Africa more broadly ' reveals that for many miners, Covid-19 is 'just' another interruption to their lives and lifeworlds which are chronically affected by interruptions of different scales, magnitudes and temporalities. As anthropologists have shown, foregrounding this structural condition ' which is emblematic for the lives of many people, especially in the Global South ' is key to questioning, understanding and contextualizing the current moment of 'global' crisis and must be an element of any policy and research emerging from it. - Global Challenges (FSW)
Subject(s) Small-scale mining; COVID-19; West Africa
Language en
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text
Format application/pdf
Source Anthropology Today
Rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier doi:10.1111/1467-8322.12641; lucris-id:430109325
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
Added to C-A: 2022-12-12;09:21:36