Global Life of Mines

Antonio Maria Pusceddu is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Anthropological Research (CRIA), University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Recent publications include Southern Chronicles: The Political Ecology of Class in the Italian Industrial Periphery (Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2022) and Grassroots Ecologies of Value: Environmental Conflict and Social Reproduction in Southern Italy (Antipode, 2020).

“The book is well-designed and well-situated within the literature … It will provide a valuable comparative resource on two aspects of mining less frequently discussed – the comparisons across space and time and the post-mining context.” • Elizabeth Ferry, Brandeis University

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Timescapes of ExtractionAntonio Maria Pusceddu and Filippo M. ZerilliChapter 1. Frontier Spaces in the Arctic and the Andes: The Miner, the Smuggler and Performances of (Post)extractivismCecilie Vindal Ødegaard*This chapter is is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the University of BergenChapter 2. Technological Promises of ‘Green’ Extractivism in Historical Minescapes: Narratives and Materiality of Mining Revival in Andalusian WastelandsDoris Buu-SaoChapter 3. Unearthing the Buried Past of Brazil’s Former Gold MinesAndreza Aruska de Souza SantosChapter 4. How Industrial and Artisanal Extraction Shape a City: On Urban Planning Flaws, Encroaching Open Pits and Backyard Mining in a Congolese Mining TownKristien GeenenChapter 5. Mining Life Cycles and Indigenous Land Dispossession in North America: A View from the American WestPaul WhiteChapter 6. Contentious Legacies: Post-Mining and Heritage-Making in the Italian AlpsRoberta Clara ZaniniChapter 7. Uranium Mining in New Mexico: Global Entanglements, Earth Relations, and Awkward WaysTargol MesbahAfterword: What’s to Come: Mining in a Fevered WorldDavid Kideckel