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Extractive peasants: reframing informal artisanal and small-scale mining debates

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  • Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

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This paper explores the ongoing reconfiguration of peasant labour processes from agriculture to informal mineral extraction, outlining the motivations of the rural poor in adopting mining and quarrying, and discusses how social sciences can best account for this significant shift towards extractive livelihoods. It argues that the ‘extractive peasants’ best explain the contemporary changes in rural, mineral-rich tracts throughout the Global South, and peasant mining practices are part of the informal economies. The extractive peasants return intellectual attention to practices that disrupt contemporary global mineral production and place the politics of the poor within broader debates on resource politics.

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  • Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, 2018. "Extractive peasants: reframing informal artisanal and small-scale mining debates," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(8), pages 1561-1582, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:39:y:2018:i:8:p:1561-1582
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1458300
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    1. Vuola, Marketta, 2022. "The intersections of mining and neoliberal conservation," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    2. Pokorny, Benno & von Lübke, Christian & Dayamba, Sidzabda Djibril & Dickow, Helga, 2019. "All the gold for nothing? Impacts of mining on rural livelihoods in Northern Burkina Faso," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 23-39.
    3. Nonkululeko Melody Zondo, 2024. "Rethinking Artisanal Mining: The Lived Experiences of Rural Artisanal Mining Communities in South Africa," Journal of Social and Development Sciences, AMH International, vol. 14(2), pages 1-12.
    4. Hook, Andrew, 2019. "The multidimensionality of exclusion in the small-scale gold mining sector in Guyana: Institutional reform, landlordism, and mineral uncertainty," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 123(C), pages 1-1.
    5. Ruth Zárate Rueda & Yolima Ivonne Beltrán Villamizar & Luis Eduardo Becerra Ardila, 2023. "Neo-Extractivism and Formalization of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining—The Case of the Santurbán Moorland (Colombia)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(15), pages 1-16, July.
    6. Goetz, Julian M., 2022. "What do we know about rural and informal non-farming labour? Evidence from a mixed methods study of artisanal and small-scale mining in Northwest Tanzania," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 158(C).

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