Contested wealth : social and political mobilisation in extractive communities in Africa
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Larmer, Miles
Laterza, Vito
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Elsevier
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This introductory paper analyses historical and contemporary developments in the social and political mobilisation of what are termed ‘extractive communities’ in Africa. It demonstrates the centrality of diverse contestations, both between extractive corporations and extractive communities, and within communities themselves, over the real and envisioned benefits of mining and oil production. In contextualising the articles carried in this special section of Extractive Industries and Society, it places these dynamics in an assessment of Africa’s past and current position in global economic and political processes of extractive exploitation, and, building on the insights of these articles, suggests ways in which research on these communities may be developed in the future.
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Africa, Mining, Extractives, Communities, Mobilisation, Corporations, Contestation, Oil, Copper, Gold, Platinum, Labour unions, Zambia, South Africa (SA), Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Angola, Mozambique
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Larmer, M. & Laterza, V. 2017, 'Contested wealth : social and political mobilisation in extractive communities in Africa', Extractive Industries and Society, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 701-706.