Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, artisanal and small-scale mining in the contemporary world

by Kuntala Lahiri-dutt

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760461717
• ISBN13: 9781760461713
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"