Mining and Development in Sierra Leone
eBook - ePub

Mining and Development in Sierra Leone

Negotiating Change and Navigating Uncertainty

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mining and Development in Sierra Leone

Negotiating Change and Navigating Uncertainty

About this book

Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life.

The book offers an in-depth analysis of the processes of development and change that mark resource extraction environments globally. Across the world, resource extraction is assigned an important role in development agendas. Yet a key question is how development opportunities are given shape and accessed and how extraction's negative impacts are dealt with in actual politics and practices. Set in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone during a global mining boom, this book shows how mining-cum-development's multifaceted effects materialize. By taking the micro-politics of large-scale mining as its principal focus, the book analyzes a range of the most perplexing phenomena of life in Sierra Leone and scrutinizes the intricate and contentious processes of change unfolding in mining environments. Mining and Development in Sierra Leone goes beyond promise-or-problem dichotomies, offers key insights into the struggle for progress that characterizes the mining-development nexus, and provides innovative understandings of the resourceful ways in which different actors negotiate change and navigate uncertainty.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars working on resource extraction, large-scale investments, globalization, and development, as well as to development practitioners, mining professionals, and policymakers.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032480688
eBook ISBN
9781040186701

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. List of illustrations
  9. List of abbreviations
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. 1 Introduction: mining, development, and uncertainty
  12. 2 Sierra Leone’s turbulent history
  13. 3 Hot-spot Marampa
  14. 4 Mining, hope, and expectations
  15. 5 Mining and the politics of time
  16. 6 Mining, belonging, and localness
  17. 7 Mining and landed relations in Sierra Leone
  18. 8 Ambiguous networks in Sierra Leone
  19. 9 Conclusion: negotiating change and navigating uncertainty
  20. Index