Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South

Gerardo Castillo Guzmán is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Peru. He is Coordinator of the Anthropology of the City Research Group at PUCP and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute, Australia. Matthew Himley is Professor of Geography at Illinois State University, USA. He is a nature–society geographer with research interests in the political ecology and political economy of resource industries, especially in the Andean region of South America. He is Co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography (Routledge, 2021). David Brereton is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he was Foundation Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining. Since retiring from the University in 2016, he has continued to undertake research and advisory work focused on improving corporate social performance in the global mining sector.

1 An Introduction to Mining, Mobility, and Social Change

Matthew Himley, David Brereton, and Gerardo Castillo Guzmán

SECTION I

The Andes

2 Ch’ixi Mobilities: Small-Scale Mining and Indigenous Autonomy

in the Bolivian Tin Belt

Andrea Marston

3 Mining, Infrastructure, and Mobility in the Andes

Gerardo Damonte, Julieta Godfrid, and Ana Paula López

4 Navigating Gendered Landscapes of Mineral Extraction: Spatial Mobility,

Women’s Autonomy, and Mining Development in the Peruvian Andes

Gerardo Castillo Guzmán

SECTION II

Central and West Africa

5 Chasing Gold: Technology, People, and Matter on the Move in

Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Philippe Dunia Kabunga, Simon Marijsse, and Sara Geenen

6 Making Mining Localities: Trajectories and Stories of Mining and

Mobility in Zambia

Patience Mususa and Iva Peša

7 The Governance of ASGM in Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire: (Im)mobility,

Territory, and Technological Change

Anna Dessertine, Robin Petit-Roulet, Muriel Champy, and Ibrahima Kalil Doumbouya

SECTION III

Melanesia

8 Mining-Induced In-Migration in Papua New Guinea

Glenn Banks and Tobias Schwörer

9 Mining Fronts, Labor Mobilities, and the Construction of Locality

in Thio, New Caledonia

Pierre-Yves Le Meur

10 Beyond the Enclave: Workforce Mobility and Livelihoods in a

New Caledonia Mining Region

Séverine Bouard and Valentine Boudjema

SECTION IV

Conclusion

11 Mining and Mobility: Key Insights, Governance Implications, and Future Research

David Brereton, Gerardo Castillo Guzmán, and Matthew Himley