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Addressing the legacy of past mining in the garden river first nation community: Perspectives and pathways to improve community engagement

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101630

Kerry Perrault , Effah Kwabena Antwi , David Young , Aaron Jones , Stephanie Seymour

The negative effects of resource extraction have disproportionately affected Indigenous people in Canada. There is an ongoing legacy of environmental damage and infringements of treaty and title rights among Indigenous Nations such as the Garden River Nation, that the government must address. A community engagement project between Natural Resources Canada and the Garden River First Nation community was carried out to gather information about the legacy of past mining activities in this Nation. Thematic categories were collaboratively and manually pulled from the community engagement transcripts to explore the effects of mining on the livelihoods of the people of the Garden River First Nation. The discussion results showed social and environmental concerns about resource extraction, and the community calls for action to be taken to restore abandoned mines that continue to leave a negative legacy for the People, land, and other inhabitants of Garden River. The community also urge the government and industry to make a concentrated effort to understand Indigenous worldviews, perspectives, and philosophies when conducting work that could have adverse impacts on the Indigenous Nations who call the territory home. Recommendations were made for capacity building for Indigenous people to adequately participate in project negotiations.

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Local perspectives on human rights abuses within Ghana's extractive industries

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101632

Francis Xavier D. Tuokuu , Uwafiokun Idemudia , Raymond A. Atuguba

This paper uses local communities’ experiences and perceptions of human rights violations to examine the United Nation's (UN's) "Protect, Respect and Remedy"(PRR) Framework for Business and Human Rights in Ghana's extractive industries. Through a combination of semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with key actors, the research reveals that awareness of the PRR framework in local communities is low, and the extent to which the framework has resulted in better human rights outcomes for community members in extractive sites remains limited. By presenting empirical evidence of human rights violations in both the oil and gas, and the mining communities in Ghana's Western region, the study underscores the urgent need for a comprehensive action to address systemic challenges driving human rights violations, and the need to safeguard the rights and well-being of vulnerable populations affected by natural resources extraction. The article concludes by considering the theoretical and policy implications of its findings and proposes possible strategies to limit human rights abuses within the extractive industries in developing countries.

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The hustle lifeways of Black women in mining-affected communities of South Africa

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101629

Beatrice Gibertini

This study sets out to investigate the lived experiences of Black women living in South African communities affected by mining, specifically exploring how they navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by large-scale resource extraction. To do so, the study introduces the concept of “hustle lifeways”. In the context of mining-affected communities, this term captures how small-scale, often informal, income-generating activities are embodied in Black women's experiences of large-scale mining. Data is collected through a three-months fieldwork period across six mining-affected communities located in different provinces of South Africa. Thematic analysis highlights three key dimensions of hustle lifeways, namely survival, autonomy and caregiving responsibilities. The analysis of these three themes evidences Black women's resourcefulness, while underscoring the numerous challenges posed to them by large-scale mining, particularly in terms of exclusion, heightened uncertainty and increased care work. The insights from this analysis contribute to the literature on mining and women in South Africa, which has predominantly focused on women employed in the sector, by offering a new perspective on the gendered dimensions of large-scale mining.

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Mining in the Amazon: An exploration of the tensions between infrastructure development, environmental protection, and indigenous rights under international and national laws

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101628

Yang Li , Xiaochen Zhang , Hind Alofaysan , Xiaorong Jiang

This research examines the critical tensions between infrastructure development, environmental protection, and indigenous rights in the context of illegal mining in the Peruvian Amazon from 2008 to 2021. While infrastructure expansion is often seen as a driver of economic growth, it has simultaneously facilitated illicit mining activities, particularly within Indigenous Lands (ILs). Using Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) and binary logistic regression, this study maps the spatial distribution of illegal mining activities and identifies the primary factors driving their expansion in Peru's Amazonian region. The findings reveal a substantial increase in illegal mining over the last five years, particularly in the territories of Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto, where clandestine transportation networks, including unofficial roads and airstrips, have enabled unauthorized extractive activities. Regression analysis confirms that gold demand, proximity to clandestine infrastructure, and weak enforcement mechanisms are the leading contributors to illegal mining in Indigenous Lands. These results underscore the conflict between economic expansion and conservation efforts, exposing loopholes in legal frameworks and the marginalization of indigenous communities under Peruvian national laws and international human rights agreements. This study contributes to policy discussions on sustainable resource governance and the protection of indigenous territories in the Amazon, emphasizing the need for enhanced monitoring mechanisms, stricter enforcement policies, and participatory decision-making involving indigenous communities.

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Mining space and sustainability: A systematic review

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-02-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101623

Leanna Butters

Mining operations present social, economic, and environmental benefits and challenges, many of which are context specific. While social approaches and spatial approaches have been used to study mining impacts for decades, approaches that consider social and spatial dimensions in tandem are growing. This is timely from a sustainability perspective given the need for integrated research approaches that can uncover the nature of complex mining-related challenges and deliver effective solutions. This paper presents findings from a systematic literature review. It documents concepts and methods used to frame and investigate social space to date within mining contexts and considers how these link to sustainability. This study finds that social spatial research on mining is framed primarily by socio-spatial, socio-ecological, and materialist perspectives. Authors mainly rely on traditional methodologies and methods, especially ethnography. Social spatial research appears to be well-suited to the study of diverse relational dynamics in the context of mining and sustainability. However, while existing research has contributed to much new knowledge about complex sustainability problems (systems knowledge) and values that ought to change (target knowledge), fewer papers consider strategies for addressing these problems (transformation knowledge). Future research might adopt co-productive and/or transdisciplinary approaches to develop new, innovative research methods and meaningful solutions to sustainability challenges.

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Mining global decarbonisation for development in Africa? Regional geopolitics and the question of South Africa in Africa

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101624

Michael Nassen Smith

Research into the geopolitics of ‘critical’ mineral mining is expanding. However, there remains a notable dearth of analysis concerned with addressing how global decarbonisation relates to regional relations and configurations of power. This absence is concerning given the relatively widespread acceptance that regional development strategies should be embraced by economies seeking to leverage their ‘green’ transition mineral endowment for industrialisation and development. This paper revisits the debate on character of the South African state in Africa, from the vantage point of the mineral intensity of global decarbonisation and the competitive dynamics of the contemporary global political economy. The paper primarily assesses the view that South Africa should be seen as a sub-imperialist actor in the maintenance of the global neoliberalism, arguing that this perspective offers a rigid view of the world capitalism and geopolitics and presents a thin theory of state formation and economic and social relations in the periphery. By examining South Africa's role in contemporary Zambia in the context of increasing international competition for access and control of Zambia's 'green' mineral reserves, the paper highlights the ambiguity of South African state action and the evolving and dynamic relations it forges with domestic and international class and state forces.

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Implications of Chinese overseas mining operations for community-level social conflict

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101619

Yu Cao

In the context of increasing foreign mining activities and their impacts, and the growing number of social conflicts resulting from mining operations, this paper investigates whether Chinese multinational corporation (MNC) investment is positively associated with social conflict, and if so, whether that relationship is a result of MNC practices, and/or other factors. Broadly speaking, scholars paint a picture in which China's political regime together with its national culture and its economic development path influence Chinese extractive MNCs’ activities abroad and might contribute to more social conflict. At the same time, scholars writing on extractive conflicts have argued that conflicts result from companies’ inadequate performances, especially regarding community engagement practices. That is, in this second view, social conflict is due to mistakes that any company could make; that is, there is no “Chinese way” of operating abroad. The paper asks: Are Chinese mining MNCs’ operations more prone to social conflict than non-Chinese MNCs’ operations? If so, how? To what extent do firm practices explain variation in conflict? Through quantitative and Geographical Information System (GIS) analysis of an original database of 1001 mining properties worldwide, this paper finds that Chinese MNCs do not confront more conflict than other foreign-owned MNCs. This finding has theoretical contributions as the results that Chinese mining MNCs do not perform worse threaten to falsify much of what has been discussed about Chinese mining firms, that they behave worse and cause conflict. The study contributes to our understanding of extractive conflict, with implications for the trajectory of extractive sectors and, in turn, alternative or sustainable development options.

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How does social acceptance affect transition minerals production in Europe? A system dynamics approach and case study in Portugal

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101625

Alaize Dall-Orsoletta , Brunilde Verrier , Mauricio Uriona-Maldonado , Géremi Gilson Dranka , Paula Ferreira

Against the backdrop of competing interests between mining developments, energy transition minerals procurement, and local communities striving to preserve their heritage and livelihoods, this paper delves into the dynamics between mining and social acceptance. Drawing from a participatory approach, the study offers qualitative and quantitative insights into this complex relationship. Cause-and-effect links surrounding social acceptance and mining activities are represented in a causal loop diagram (CLD), which illustrates how social acceptance is affected by trust, perceived procedural fairness, socioeconomic and environmental impacts, and (mis)alignment between government's and community's interests. The conceptual diagram aided the development of an adaptable quantitative system dynamics model, which is applied to a case study, the Barroso lithium project in Northern Portugal. Analysis reveals how low levels of social acceptance during initialisation and across the project lifecycle can lead to a significant decrease in operational performance and the amount of lithium recovered, while attempts to obtain the social licence to operate (SLO) are highly dependent on building genuine trust. The relevance of trust-building delays for decarbonisation agendas is also discussed. The paper concludes by delineating a future research agenda that points to embedding community engagement as core rather than side practice to leverage industry and policy decision-making towards just energy transitions.

在矿业发展、能源转型矿产采购以及当地社区努力保护其遗产和生计之间存在利益竞争的背景下，本文深入探讨了矿业与社会认可之间的动态关系。本研究采用参与式方法，从定性和定量两个方面深入探讨了这一复杂关系。围绕社会接受度和采矿活动的因果关系用因果循环图（CLD）来表示，说明了社会接受度如何受到信任、程序公平性、社会经济和环境影响以及政府和社区利益（不一致）的影响。该概念图有助于开发一个可调整的定量系统动力学模型，并将其应用于葡萄牙北部巴罗佐锂电项目的案例研究。分析揭示了在项目初始阶段和整个项目生命周期中，低水平的社会认可会如何导致运营绩效和锂回收量的显著下降，而获得社会运营许可（SLO）的尝试在很大程度上取决于建立真正的信任。本文还讨论了建立信任的延迟与去碳化议程的相关性。最后，论文提出了未来的研究议程，指出将社区参与作为核心而非辅助实践，以利用行业和政策决策实现公正的能源转型。

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The ‘oil capital of Europe’ in the net zero transition: A corpus linguistics analysis of Aberdeenshire newspapers

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101620

Karolina Trdlicova

The City of Aberdeen, bearing the moniker ‘oil capital of Europe’, has set a 2045 net zero greenhouse gas emissions target. The city has historically benefited from and depended on the oil and gas industry and its presence in the North Sea, especially for employment opportunities. Meanwhile, in The Sixth Carbon Budget, the Climate Change Committee has stated that a fossil fuel phase-out is essential to meet the UK's net zero 2050 target. At the 2022 SNP Conference the then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon suggested that Aberdeen should become ‘the net zero capital of the world’. This prompts the question of what this energy transition will look like in a place, whose economy and identity are so closely tied to the fossil fuel industry. I conducted a corpus linguistic analysis of Aberdeenshire newspapers (N = 3508), sampled only by the keyword ‘net zero’; and used critical discourse analysis (CDA) to contextualise the findings within the broader economic, policy and social contexts. This showed that the narrative of the net zero transition presented in the local media thus far is overwhelmingly focused on the oil and gas industry, which is mentioned significantly more than other energy technologies or other aspects of the transitions. This narrow focus on the oil and gas sector suggests an absence of a publicly discussed future vision for the region, highlighting the scope of the challenge that lies ahead if Aberdeen's identity is truly to be redefined from ‘oil capital of Europe’ to ‘net zero capital of the world’.

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Contested masculinities in the exploration phase of the Lihir gold mine, Papua New Guinea

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101621

Colin Filer

The large gold deposit that is now being mined on the island of Lihir in Papua New Guinea was first discovered in 1982, but the development agreements were not signed until 1995. Between 1985 and 1994, I made several trips to the island in order to assess the future social impacts of the mine and provide advice to various actors on the question of how these impacts could be mitigated. The question of what should be done to mitigate the impact on Lihirian women, or on gender relations in Lihirian society, was one of the questions that had to be addressed. It was already evident that this question was difficult to answer because there was a sort of power struggle going on between the small group of European men who were in charge of the exploration work and a somewhat larger group of Lihirian men who had positioned themselves as representatives of the local community. The first question addressed in this paper is whether this was not just a power struggle between a group of white men and a group of black men in a post-colonial or neocolonial political context, but also a contest between different conceptions of masculinity that were themselves being transformed by the imminent prospect of a large-scale gold mine. The second question is how the evolution of this contest over the course of a decade either broadened or narrowed the scope for Lihirian women to escape the subordinate position that they occupied when the contest began.

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