Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, artisanal and small-scale mining in the contemporary world by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1760461717 | 398 Pages | PDF | 2.45 MB
"Between the Plough and the Pick deepens our understanding of informal, artisanal and small-scale mining, popularly known as ASM. The book engages with wider scholarly conceptualisations of contemporary global social, agrarian and political changes, whilst underlining the roles that local social‑political-historical contexts play in shaping mineral extractive processes and practices. It shows that the people who are engaged in these mining practices are often the poorest and most exploited labourers—erstwhile peasants caught in the vortex of global change, who perform the most insecure and dangerous tasks.