Between the Plough and the Pick : Informal, Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in the Contemporary World
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‑poli...
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