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Between the Plough and the Pick
- First Page
- Preliminary pages
- List of figures and tables
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- 1. Reframing the debate on informal mining
- Section One: Historical antecedents and value‑making
- 2. Artisanal gold-rush mining and frontier democracy: Juxtaposing experiences in America, Australia, Africa and Asia
- 3. Tanzanite: Commodity fiction or commodity nightmare?
- 4. Agrarian distress and gemstone mining in India: The political economy of survival
- 5. The social ecology of artisanal mining: Between romanticisation and anathema
- Section Two: Precarious and gendered labour
- 6. Theorising transit labour in informal mineral extraction processes
- 7. A good business or a risky business: Health, safety and quality of life for women small-scale miners in PNG
- 8. Rice, sapphires and cattle: Work lives of women artisanal and small-scale miners in Madagascar
- 9. Is it possible to integrate health and safety risk management into mechanised gold processing? A methodology for artisanal and small-scale mining communities in the Philippines
- 10. Resources and resourcefulness: Gender, human rights and resilience in artisanal mining towns of eastern Congo
- Section Three: Conflicts and governance
- 11. Historical trajectory of gold-mining in the Nilgiri–Wayanad region of India
- 12. Conflicts in marginal locations: Small-scale gold-mining in the Amazon
- 13. Small-scale gold-mining: Opportunities and risks in post-conflict Colombia
- 14. Muddy rivers and toxic flows: Risks and impacts of artisanal gold-mining in the riverine catchments of Bombana, Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesia)
- 15. Artisanal and small-scale mining governance: The ‘emerging issue’ of ‘unregulated mining’ in Lao PDR
- 16. Reassembling informal gold‑mining for development and sustainability? Opportunities and limits to formalisation in India, Indonesia and Laos
- Postscript
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