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‘We have so many challenges’: Small‐scale mining, Covid‐19 and constant interruptions in West Africa
Currently, the impacts of Covid‐19 are receiving significant global attention. This also applies to the extractive industries, where this global crisis is directing the gaze of policymakers, donors and academics alike. Covid‐19 is seen as having far‐reaching and disruptive consequences, especially i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8251126/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34230742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12641 |
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description | Currently, the impacts of Covid‐19 are receiving significant global attention. This also applies to the extractive industries, where this global crisis is directing the gaze of policymakers, donors and academics alike. Covid‐19 is seen as having far‐reaching and disruptive consequences, especially in the case of artisanal and small‐scale mining. While the authors consider this attention important, their work on artisanal and small‐scale mining in Ghana – and West Africa more broadly – reveals that for many miners, Covid‐19 is ‘just’ another interruption to their lives and lifeworlds which are chronically affected by interruptions of different scales, magnitudes and temporalities. As anthropologists have shown, foregrounding this structural condition – which is emblematic for the lives of many people, especially in the Global South – is key to questioning, understanding and contextualizing the current moment of ‘global’ crisis and must be an element of any policy and research emerging from it. |
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spelling | pubmed-82511262021-07-02 ‘We have so many challenges’: Small‐scale mining, Covid‐19 and constant interruptions in West Africa PIJPERS, ROBERT JAN LUNING, SABINE Anthropol Today Original Articles Currently, the impacts of Covid‐19 are receiving significant global attention. This also applies to the extractive industries, where this global crisis is directing the gaze of policymakers, donors and academics alike. Covid‐19 is seen as having far‐reaching and disruptive consequences, especially in the case of artisanal and small‐scale mining. While the authors consider this attention important, their work on artisanal and small‐scale mining in Ghana – and West Africa more broadly – reveals that for many miners, Covid‐19 is ‘just’ another interruption to their lives and lifeworlds which are chronically affected by interruptions of different scales, magnitudes and temporalities. As anthropologists have shown, foregrounding this structural condition – which is emblematic for the lives of many people, especially in the Global South – is key to questioning, understanding and contextualizing the current moment of ‘global’ crisis and must be an element of any policy and research emerging from it. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-04-01 2021-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8251126/ /pubmed/34230742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12641 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Anthropology Today published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Anthropological Institute https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles PIJPERS, ROBERT JAN LUNING, SABINE ‘We have so many challenges’: Small‐scale mining, Covid‐19 and constant interruptions in West Africa |
title | ‘We have so many challenges’: Small‐scale mining, Covid‐19 and constant interruptions in West Africa |
title_full | ‘We have so many challenges’: Small‐scale mining, Covid‐19 and constant interruptions in West Africa |
title_fullStr | ‘We have so many challenges’: Small‐scale mining, Covid‐19 and constant interruptions in West Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | ‘We have so many challenges’: Small‐scale mining, Covid‐19 and constant interruptions in West Africa |
title_short | ‘We have so many challenges’: Small‐scale mining, Covid‐19 and constant interruptions in West Africa |
title_sort | ‘we have so many challenges’: small‐scale mining, covid‐19 and constant interruptions in west africa |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8251126/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34230742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12641 |
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