Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia
Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia
Daniel Tubb
Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia
Daniel Tubb
Descripción
People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining companies prospect for open-pit mega-mines. Drug traffickers launder cocaine profits by smuggling gold into Colombia and claiming it came from fictitious small-scale mines.
Through an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, Shifting Livelihoods investigates how resource extraction reshapes a place. In the Chocó, gold enables forms of "shift" (rebusque)--a metaphor for the fluid livelihood strategy adopted by forest dwellers and migrant gold miners alike as they seek informal work amid a drug war. Mining's effects on rural people, corporations, and politics are on view in this fine-grained account of daily life in a regional economy dominated by gold and cocaine.
Detalles
Formato | Tapa suave |
Número de Páginas | 250 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | University of Washington Press |
Fecha de Publicación | 2020-06-30 |
Dimensiones | 8.9" x 5.9" x 0.6" pulgadas |
Serie | Culture, Place, and Nature |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | Si |
Temas | América Latina |
Acerca del Autor
Daniel Tubb is associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton.
Descripción
People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining companies prospect for open-pit mega-mines. Drug traffickers launder cocaine profits by smuggling gold into Colombia and claiming it came from fictitious small-scale mines.
Through an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, Shifting Livelihoods investigates how resource extraction reshapes a place. In the Chocó, gold enables forms of "shift" (rebusque)--a metaphor for the fluid livelihood strategy adopted by forest dwellers and migrant gold miners alike as they seek informal work amid a drug war. Mining's effects on rural people, corporations, and politics are on view in this fine-grained account of daily life in a regional economy dominated by gold and cocaine.
Detalles
Formato | Tapa dura |
Número de Páginas | 250 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | University of Washington Press |
Fecha de Publicación | 2020-06-30 |
Dimensiones | 9.1" x 6.1" x 0.9" pulgadas |
Serie | Culture, Place, and Nature |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | Si |
Temas | América Latina |
Acerca del Autor
Daniel Tubb is associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Brunswick Fredericton.
Garantía & Otros
Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
Peso: | 0.386 kg |
SKU: | 9780295747538 |
Publicado en Unimart.com: | 20/05/24 |
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