Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining

Chris Huggins, "Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining "
English | ISBN: 1032090456 | 2021 | 152 pages | EPUB | 1204 KB
Disputes and dispossession of property rights in the mining sector are causes of injustice, violence, and forced resettlement around the world. This comprehensive volume examines mining, particularly what is often called 'Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining', from a perspective of governance and rights. It focuses on rights to land, natural resources, and other forms of material 'property'. Many projects, policies, and laws targeting artisanal and small-scale mining are embedded in problematic conceptual and institutional frameworks that implicitly stigmatise and discipline artisanal and small-scale miners. This collection takes a critical look at notions of property to destabilise some of these frameworks.