Transforming matters: sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
Transforming matters: sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
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10.1016/j.cosust.2021.06.010
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2021-04
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7.2
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E. Fisher;S. Luning;Lorenzo D’Angelo;C.H.X. Araujo;Luigi Arnaldi de Balme;J. Calvimontes;Esther van de Camp;Lúcia da Costa Ferreira;Cristiano Lanzano;L. Massaro;Alizèta Ouédraogo;J. Mello;R. Pijpers;Nii Obodai Provençal;Raíssa Resende de Moraes;Christophe Sawadogo;M. de Theije;G. de Tomi;Margaret Tuhumwire;R. Twongyirwe
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作者：
E. Fisher;S. Luning;Lorenzo D’Angelo;C.H.X. Araujo;Luigi Arnaldi de Balme;J. Calvimontes;Esther van de Camp;Lúcia da Costa Ferreira;Cristiano Lanzano;L. Massaro;Alizèta Ouédraogo;J. Mello;R. Pijpers;Nii Obodai Provençal;Raíssa Resende de Moraes;Christophe Sawadogo;M. de Theije;G. de Tomi;Margaret Tuhumwire;R. Twongyirwe
重点采矿问题塑造了不同的提取世界。在黄金生活方式中，人们寻求机构来创造自己的未来。解决黄金开采的可持续性需要多种知识。共同劳动创造了跨学科研究的合作，但暴露了不平等。个体和小规模采金业需要多样化的转型途径。矿区的增长战略促进了基于工业采矿的黄金提取，将手工和小规模采金业与持续的非正规性联系在一起。在此背景下，我们考虑如何在小规模采金业实现可持续发展的转型。鉴于小规模手工采金业如何与一系列环境和社会问题联系在一起，我们承认这一主题对可持续性辩论来说是多么有问题，我们认为，正义的透镜要求我们在全球可持续性政治中面对这些挑战。这使我们回顾了小规模采金业研究的进展，与关于采掘主义、资源物质和非正式性的辩论有关。我们使用黄金生命之路的概念来捕捉采矿如何塑造不同的开采世界。我们认为，考虑转型的潜力，可持续发展需要在小规模手工采金业的现实基础。这就需要重视矿工的知识、观点和兴趣，同时承认采矿未来的多样性。尽管如此，我们的结论是，在不稳定工作的紧迫性和个体和小规模采金业变革的结构性障碍之间，转型的挑战不可低估。
HighlightsThe matter of mining shapes diverse worlds of extraction.Within gold lifeways people seek agency to create their own futures.Plural knowledges are necessary for addressing sustainability in gold mining.Co-labouring creates collaboration in transdisciplinary research but exposes inequalities.Diverse pathways of transformation are needed in ASGM.Growth strategies in mining regions promote gold extraction based on industrial mining, associating Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) with persistent informality. Against this background, we consider how to approach transformations to sustainability in ASGM. Acknowledging how problematic this topic is for sustainability debates, given how ASGM is associated with a host of environmental and social problems, we argue that a justice lens demands we confront such challenges within the global politics of sustainability. This leads us to review advances in the study of ASGM, linked to debates on extractivism, resource materialities, and informality. We use the notion of gold lifeways to capture how the matter of mining shapes different worlds of extraction. We argue that consideration of the potential for transformations to sustainability needs to be grounded within the realities of ASGM. This necessitates giving value to miners’ knowledge (s), perspectives and interests, while recognising the plurality of mining futures. Nevertheless, we conclude that between the immediacy of precarious work and the structural barriers to change in ASGM, the challenges for transformation cannot be underestimated.