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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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