Mining encounters : extractive industries in an overheated world / edited by Robert Jan Pijpers and Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How different mining industries across the world affect landscapes, people and politics.

Preface; 1. Introduction: Negotiating the Multiple Edges of Mining Encounters -- Robert Jan Pijpers and Thomas Hylland Eriksen; 2. From Allegiance to Connection: Structural Injustice, Scholarly Norms and the Anthropological Ethics of Mining Encounters -- Alex Golub; 3. The 'Shooting Fields of Porgera Joint Venture': An Exploration of Corporate Power, Reputational Dynamics and Indigenous Agency -- Catherine Coumans; 4. Rubbish at the Border: A Minefield of Conservation Politics at the Lawa River, Suriname/French Guiana -- Sabine Luning and Marjo de Theije -- 5. Territories of Contestation: Negotiating Mining Concessions in Sierra Leone -- Robert Jan Pijpers

6. Drilling Down Comparatively: Resource Histories, Subterranean Unconventional Gas and Diverging Social Responses in Two Australian Regions -- Kim de Rijke; 7. Coal Trafficking: Reworking National Energy Security via Coal Transport at the North Karanpura Coalfields, India -- Patrik Oskarsson and Nikas Kindo; 8. Diamonds and Plural Temporalities: Articulating Encounters in the Mines of Sierra Leone -- Lorenzo D'Angelo -- 9. Risky Encounters: The Ritual Prevention of Accidents in the Coal Mines of Kazakhstan -- Eeva KeskulaNotes on Contributors; Index.

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