Mining Africa

Law, Environment, Society and Politics in Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Artwell Nhemachena, V. Warikandwa, Artwell Nhemachena, V. Warikandwa

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9789956764327
• eBook ISBN: 9789956764563
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: Social Sciences

This book is a pacesetter in matters of mining and the environment in Africa from multidisciplinary and spatio-temporal perspectives. The book approaches mining from the perspectives of law, politics, archaeology, anthropology, African studies, geography, human ecology, sociology, history, economics and development. It interrogates mining and environment from the perspectives of customary law as well as from the perspectives of Euro-modern laws. In this sense, the book straddles precolonial, colonial and postcolonial mining and environmental perspectives. In all this, it maintains a Pan-Africanist perspective that also speaks to contemporary debates on African Renaissance and to the unity of Africa. From scrutinising the lived realities of African miners who are often insensitively and unjustly addressed as illegal miners, the book also interrogates transnational mining corporations; matters of corporate social responsibility as well as matters of tax evasions by transnational corporations whose commitment to accountability to African governments is questioned. With both theoretical chapters and chapter based on empirical studies on mining and the environment across the African continent, the book provides a much needed holistic, one stop shop for scholars, activists, researchers and policy makers who need a comprehensive treatise on African mining and the environment. The book comes at the right time when matters of African mining and environment are increasingly coming to the fore in the light of discourses about the new 21st century scramble for African resources, in which big transnational corporations and nations are jostling to suck Africa dry in their race to control planetary resources. It is a book that speaks to contemporary broader issues of (de-)coloniality and transformation of African minds and African environmental resources.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• List of Contributors
• Contents
• Foreword
• Chapter One - On the Challenges of African Mining and Environments in the New World Order: An Introduction
• Chapter Two - When Did the Rain Start to Beat Us? Discursive Dispossession and the Political Economies of Misrecognition about African Mining
• Chapter Three - Archaeological Technologies of Gold Mining and Processing and their Relationship to Contemporary Chikorokoza: The Case of Mutanda Site, Mutare, Zimbabwe
• Chapter Four - Unsung Heroes? An Anthropological Approach into the Experiences of ‘Zamazamas ’ in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Chapter Five - Zamazama 5 – Livelihood Strategies, Mobilisation and Resistance in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Chapter Six - What Indigenous Agricultural Communities Have To Say? Transnational Corporate Social Responsibility and the Mining Environment in Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality, Ghana
• Chapter Seven - Re-thinking Mining in Embattled Africa: A Calculative Sociological Logic
• Chapter Eight - Towards a Pan-Africanist Mining Regulatory Framework for Africa: Drawing Lessons from the Pre-colonial Customary Law Based Mining Practices
• Chapter Nine - Towards the Promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Adequacy of Mining Laws in Zimbabwe
• Chapter Ten - Political Governance and Resource Exploitation in Cameroon: Challenges and Prospects
• Chapter Eleven - Aligning the Mining Sector with Sustainable Development in Namibia
• Chapter Twelve - Exposing the Emperor’s Flawed (Neo-)colonial Template: Charting a Contemporary Regulatory Framework for Africa’s Mining Sector
• Back cover