Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101822
George M. Bob-Milliar , Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-27DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101845
Michael Hitch , George Barakos
The climate emergency has been reframed as a moral summons to mine. Across policy, finance, and corporate discourse, extraction now parades as ecological salvation rather than ecological debt. This paper argues that the critical-minerals agenda serves as a Trojan Horse within climate governance, smuggling extractivist logic beneath the rhetoric of decarbonization. Drawing on political ecology, post-extractivist, and degrowth traditions, we integrate a PESTLE–Force-Field analysis of ninety-five policy and industry texts (2019–2025) from Canada, the United States, the European Union, Australia, and Chile. Findings reveal a moral economy of speed in which urgency, techno-sovereignty, and ESG finance transform acceleration into virtue and restraint into failure. Under this logic, decarbonization becomes accumulation by decarbonization—an intensification of material throughput disguised as responsibility. Authentic transition requires embedding ecological limits in law, institutionalizing Indigenous co-governance, and redirecting finance toward sufficiency rather than expansion. Decarbonization cannot be mined into existence; it must be governed into balance.
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This article examines the socio-ecological impacts of oil and gas activities in four communities in the Niger Delta using a political ecology lens and environmental justice perspective. Drawing on participatory mapping, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews, the study reveals that community exposure to extractive infrastructure is both spatial and structural—defined not just by proximity to pipelines and facilities but also by systemic neglect, weak governance, and infrastructural deficits. The concept of “structural exposure” is introduced to explain how absence of services (e.g., roads, hospitals, potable water) amplifies harm in affected communities, while the idea of “exposure displacement” captures how ecological pressure migrates when resource users are pushed into contested or degraded areas. These dynamics deepen environmental and livelihood vulnerabilities and are often mediated by institutional inaction.
Findings highlight a range of community impacts—environmental degradation, cultural erosion, psychological stress, and socio-political disempowerment—as well as coping strategies such as artisanal refining, self-medication, and overexploitation of non-oil resources. These responses, while pragmatic, are often maladaptive, reinforcing cycles of vulnerability in the absence of state or corporate support. The analysis shows that harm is not evenly distributed but shaped by differentiated access to institutional protection, reinforcing patterns of environmental injustice. By linking these lived experiences to broader policy and governance failures, this article offers a grounded empirical base for subsequent governance and actor-network analysis and contributes to global debates on extractivism, vulnerability, and environmental justice.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101823
Lindani Mhlanga
Mining operations in rural South Africa have long caused conflicts between powerful corporations and land-insecure Indigenous communities. Despite legislative protections under the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act (IPILRA), Indigenous communities remain vulnerable due to foreign investment strategies that prioritise economic interests. This article explores the broader implications of mining activities, particularly after mine closures, on Indigenous land rights. By analysing the South African Constitution, IPILRA, and mining laws, this article argues that compensation for Indigenous communities must encompass not only economic and environmental losses but also cultural, spiritual, and social impacts. The disaggregation of Indigenous land rights is essential for recognising these non-tangible losses as constitutional property, ensuring that Indigenous communities are fully compensated for the totality of their deprivations.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-09DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101824
Simon Granovsky-Larsen , Rebecca Jane Hall
Gender-based and sexual violence permeates resource extraction. This violence operates in many forms and spheres, both public and private. Focusing on a case of overt, public violence, we ask, what is productive about gender-based and sexual violence for mining corporations? In the context of commitments to social responsibility and the gender impacts of mining, what can explain corporate engagement with acts of extreme violence that publicly undermine these commitments? We respond by exploring the case of the 2007 attack on Maya Q’eqchi’ women near the Fénix nickel mine in Guatemala. Following an attack allegedly involving gang rape by public-private armed forces, eleven survivors mobilized to demand justice in the landmark Caal v. Hudbay legal case in Canada. Our analysis offers a reading of the internal communications of mining executives and their affiliates, which were released through the case. Bringing these data in conversation with critical theories of race, gender and extraction, we argue that the mining company benefitted not only from the gendered suppression and discipline of resistance, but also from the reinforcement of a racialized view of Guatemala as violent—a stereotype that allows Canadian corporate executives to continue to project their goodness, regardless of the substance of their actions.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-26DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101842
Neil Howard
Fierce debates rage over ‘what to do’ about child labour in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Long decried as a site of exploitation, ASM is demonised by much of the international child protection architecture as an archaic relic in need of eradication. By contrast, working children’s movements, civil society advocates, and sympathetic academics all argue that the picture is more complex, that child work, including in ASM, can bring many benefits, and thus that regulation is better than repression. To this more progressive, yet still reformist, strand of argument has recently been added a more radical alternative, calling for massive redistribution to address ‘the root causes of the root causes’. This paper reviews the field of competing representations of and proposed responses to child labour in ASM. It argues that although the repressive strand remains hegemonic, the reformist is gaining ground, while the radical is pointing in increasingly progressive political directions. The paper marks, in 2025, not only the point at which all child work in ASM should have been eradicated, according to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, but also the 20th anniversary of the International Labour Organisation’s seminal take on the issue, A Load Too Heavy.
关于如何处理手工和小规模采矿（ASM）中的童工问题，人们展开了激烈的辩论。ASM长期以来被谴责为剥削的场所，被许多国际儿童保护机构妖魔化，被视为需要根除的古老遗迹。相比之下，童工运动、民间社会倡导者和富有同情心的学者们都认为，情况要复杂得多，童工工作，包括ASM，可以带来许多好处，因此监管比镇压要好。对于这种更进步，但仍然是改革派的观点，最近又增加了一个更激进的选择，呼吁进行大规模的再分配，以解决“根本原因的根本原因”。本文回顾了ASM中童工的竞争代表和提出的回应。该书认为，尽管压制派仍然占据主导地位，但改革派正在得势，而激进派则指向日益进步的政治方向。根据联合国（un）的可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals）， 2025年不仅标志着亚洲地区所有童工都应该被根除，而且标志着国际劳工组织（ilo）对这一问题的开创性研究《负担太重》（A Load Too Heavy）发表20周年。
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101826
Michael Hitch , Jiajie Li , Duoxueer Jia
Copper sits at the centre of the global transition toward electrification, digitalization, and low-carbon infrastructure. Yet traditional linear models of extraction, fabrication, consumption, and disposal are increasingly misaligned with intensifying demand trajectories and escalating environmental constraints. Declining ore grades, rising energy intensity, and the geopolitical concentration of supply exacerbate systemic vulnerabilities, while the long residence times of copper in infrastructure delay the return of secondary material to productive circulation. In response, this paper advances an integrated, systems-scale framework—Metals as a Service (MaaS)—that reconceptualizes copper as a long-lived, stewarded industrial asset rather than a consumable input. Drawing on updated material-flow research, circular-economy policy developments, and emerging digital infrastructures for traceability, this paper demonstrates how MaaS restructures incentives, enhances recovery efficiency, reduces primary extraction, and stabilizes supply amid accelerating demand.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-18DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2026.101852
Rafaela Shinobe Massignan, Luis Enrique Sánchez
Local communities, civil society organizations, and investors have been calling for transparency in the mining sector, but research falls behind real-world development. Here, a systematic literature review was conducted to identify the major areas of research on transparency in the mining industry. A comprehensive search was made in the Web of Science, Scopus, and Science Direct databases, resulting in 15,994 articles. Screening resulted in 945 articles, which were grouped by analyzing their titles, keywords, and abstracts using the lexical software IraMuTeq. This study originally identified six notable topics of transparency in the mining sector on a six-cluster dendrogram, which may assist upcoming research. The largest cluster was “Community participation”, contrasting with the smallest cluster about “Accountability and participation in deep sea mining”, considered an under-researched area with 20 articles. Other understudied areas were revealed, which should be addressed by future research about transparency in mining, expected to grow due to the energy transition.
当地社区、民间社会组织和投资者一直在呼吁提高采矿业的透明度，但研究落后于现实世界的发展。在此，进行了系统的文献综述，以确定采矿业透明度研究的主要领域。在Web of Science、Scopus和Science Direct数据库中进行了全面的搜索，得到了15,994篇文章。筛选产生了945篇文章，通过使用词汇软件IraMuTeq分析其标题、关键词和摘要对其进行分组。本研究最初在六簇树状图上确定了采矿部门透明度的六个值得注意的主题，这可能有助于即将进行的研究。最大的一组是“社区参与”，而最小的一组是“问责制和参与深海采矿”，这被认为是一个研究不足的领域，只有20篇文章。还揭示了其他研究不足的领域，这些领域应通过未来关于采矿透明度的研究加以解决，预计由于能源转型将会增加。
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2026-01-05DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101848
Debra J. Davidson , Angeline Letourneau
Expectations for substantial escalation in mining activities around the globe revitalize concerns about the impacts of mining, and persistent challenges associated with anticipating and mediating those impacts. This is particularly so given that many mineral reserves are in remote locations that are ecologically and culturally sensitive. Northern Canada describes such a place, with a long history of mining, most of which entails disruptions to sensitive Arctic and subarctic landscapes, and incursions onto Indigenous lands. Today, these same lands are simultaneously highly exposed to the impacts of anthropogenic climate change, which may exacerbate the impacts of industrial development. This paper presents the results of a study conducted in collaboration with the Tłı̨chǫ Nation of northern Canada to capture the different forms of enduring social impact due to mining in the region, their potential intersection with emerging impacts of climate change, and prospects for the future of this and other northern Indigenous communities whose lands intersect with mineral reserves.
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Pub Date : 2026-06-01Epub Date: 2025-12-18DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101828
Tara Rava Zolnikov , Charles Midega , Frances Furio , Tanya Clark , Aidan Jackson , Nathalia Rodrigues , Rhett-Lawson Mohajer
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining continues to grow worldwide and is linked to gendered labor divisions, limited economic opportunities, and exposure to unsafe working conditions. Women and men often hold different roles in mining, and these gendered roles shape women’s safety, health, and economic opportunities. In 2025, a descriptive phenomenological qualitative study was conducted in mining zones in western Kenya. Convenience sampling was used to recruit 64 miners, including 39 women and 25 men. Both women and men contribute to household earnings, yet the findings show clear gendered dynamics around women’s income, their position in the household, and the implications of the roles they hold for power, safety, and income. Women primarily performed processing tasks such as drying, crushing, and washing ore, which exposed them to greater mercury risks and provided lower economic returns. These patterns also influenced household relationships and reinforced cultural expectations about gender. Persistent gender norms continue to shape mining work, limit women’s opportunities, and concentrate them in roles that offer fewer economic gains and greater vulnerability. These gendered roles limit women’s earning potential, constrain decision-making power, and place them in positions with greater physical strain and exposure to hazardous tasks.
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