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Not All Glitter Is Gold: Mining Conflicts in Burkina Faso

verfasst von : Bettina Engels

Erschienen in: Contested Extractivism, Society and the State

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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This chapter analyses societal reactions to the expansion of industrial mining in Burkina Faso. It does so by referring to concepts from the study of contentious politics, namely repertoires of contention and political opportunity structures, and from spatial theory, notably place and scale. On the local scale of mining sites, spontaneous protests by artisanal miners and local communities occur frequently, though until recently there has been little mobilisation on the national scale by social movement organisations. While at first there seem to be few connections between spontaneous local uprisings and social movement organisations’ activities at the national scale, the presented case study demonstrates that they are, nevertheless, linked to the same processes of contentious politics.

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Titel: Not All Glitter Is Gold: Mining Conflicts in Burkina Faso
verfasst von: Bettina Engels
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Buch: Contested Extractivism, Society and the State
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-58810-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-58811-1

Copyright-Jahr: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58811-1_7

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