Pub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101615
Estherlita Elizabeth Syaranamual , Nursitna Faradilla Rukdianti Mahmud , Sarah Novianti Salampessy , Redgie Alexander Pattiapon
{"title":"The Extractive Industries and Society Annual Report on China's Petroleum, Gas and New Energy Industry (2022–2023) edited by China International United Petroleum & Chemicals Co., Ltd., Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University (Springer, 2024). ISBN 978-981-99-7288-3. 392pp","authors":"Estherlita Elizabeth Syaranamual , Nursitna Faradilla Rukdianti Mahmud , Sarah Novianti Salampessy , Redgie Alexander Pattiapon","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101615","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101615","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101615"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101616
Hernán Manrique López , Daniel Hernando Hernando
Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) is on the rise in the Amazon biome. Several Protected Areas and indigenous lands from Peruvian Amazonia are currently witnessing a rapid expansion and upscaling of ASM. Nonetheless, while most of the scholarship documents cases of land grabbing and conflict, this article examines a case where indigenous communities negotiated access to their lands and managed to settle agreements with ASM operators, resulting in tangible individual and collective benefits. Based on an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses fieldwork, spatial analysis and GIS mapping in the Reserva Comunal El Sira in the Central Peruvian Amazon, this article follows three research objectives. It first documents the growth of ASM in this Protected Area, then explores the motivations of indigenous communities to engage in ASM, and finally examines how these communities coexist with ASM through negotiating individual and collective benefits. Results provide evidence that far from rejecting extraction, indigenous communities can coexist with ASM, even with so-called ‘illegal miners’, through pragmatic agreements. Our findings challenge monolithic narratives portraying ASM expansion on indigenous lands as merely environmental crimes, highlighting the need for a more nuanced perspective on its diverse expressions.
{"title":"Negotiating extraction: Indigenous peoples and the upscaling of artisanal and small-scale mining in the central Peruvian Amazon","authors":"Hernán Manrique López , Daniel Hernando Hernando","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101616","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101616","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) is on the rise in the Amazon biome. Several Protected Areas and indigenous lands from Peruvian Amazonia are currently witnessing a rapid expansion and upscaling of ASM. Nonetheless, while most of the scholarship documents cases of land grabbing and conflict, this article examines a case where indigenous communities negotiated access to their lands and managed to settle agreements with ASM operators, resulting in tangible individual and collective benefits. Based on an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses fieldwork, spatial analysis and GIS mapping in the <em>Reserva Comunal El Sira</em> in the Central Peruvian Amazon, this article follows three research objectives. It first documents the growth of ASM in this Protected Area, then explores the motivations of indigenous communities to engage in ASM, and finally examines how these communities coexist with ASM through negotiating individual and collective benefits. Results provide evidence that far from rejecting extraction, indigenous communities can coexist with ASM, even with so-called ‘illegal miners’, through pragmatic agreements. Our findings challenge monolithic narratives portraying ASM expansion on indigenous lands as merely environmental crimes, highlighting the need for a more nuanced perspective on its diverse expressions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101616"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-25DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101618
Martín Arias-Loyola , Francisco Vergara-Perucich , Felipe Encinas
{"title":"Green(ing) extractivisms: Chile's mining evolution and adaptation to the global energy transition","authors":"Martín Arias-Loyola , Francisco Vergara-Perucich , Felipe Encinas","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101618","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101618","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101618"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-25DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101617
Malena Antmann
This review-essay takes Planetary Mine by Martín Arboleda (2020) as an opportunity to analyse whether a Marxist theoretical framework can provide an adequate point of departure to understand extractive industries in an accurate way, both for theoretical and practical purposes. To this end, I address a dialogue between extractivist scholars and Marxism and evaluate the criticisms of Marxism put forth by E. Gudynas (2015) and M. Duer (2017) on this topic. These objections can be grouped into four main points: a) Marxist categories alone cannot adequately explain the allocation of primary commodity production in the Southern Cone, b) nor can they account for the colonialism that pervades the Latin American landscape; c) Marxist value-theory is anthropocentric, as it does not acknowledge the agency of non-human nature in the production of wealth; d) the Marxist framework reproduces the view of liberal economic theories, treating non-human nature as an external object. In order to respond to these objections, I explore the philosophical premises of Arboleda's investigation on the mining industry and the practical consequences which stem from this theoretical approach. Overall, I conclude that, although some metatheoretical guidelines could be further refined, the book still offers a brilliant intervention in extractivist debates.
{"title":"Capitalism and resource extraction: A Marxist value-theory approach to Latin American socio-environmental conflicts","authors":"Malena Antmann","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101617","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101617","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This review-essay takes Planetary Mine by Martín Arboleda (2020) as an opportunity to analyse whether a Marxist theoretical framework can provide an adequate point of departure to understand extractive industries in an accurate way, both for theoretical and practical purposes. To this end, I address a dialogue between extractivist scholars and Marxism and evaluate the criticisms of Marxism put forth by E. <span><span>Gudynas (2015)</span></span> and M. <span><span>Duer (2017)</span></span> on this topic. These objections can be grouped into four main points: a) Marxist categories alone cannot adequately explain the allocation of primary commodity production in the Southern Cone, b) nor can they account for the colonialism that pervades the Latin American landscape; c) Marxist value-theory is anthropocentric, as it does not acknowledge the agency of non-human nature in the production of wealth; d) the Marxist framework reproduces the view of liberal economic theories, treating non-human nature as an external object. In order to respond to these objections, I explore the philosophical premises of Arboleda's investigation on the mining industry and the practical consequences which stem from this theoretical approach. Overall, I conclude that, although some metatheoretical guidelines could be further refined, the book still offers a brilliant intervention in extractivist debates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101617"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101614
Mohamed Ismail Sabry
This paper investigates the social contract governing the green transition in Morocco. The theoretical framework builds on the literature on social contracts and policy coalitions, while the methodology depends on process tracing and qualitative data collected during fieldtrip visits. Identifying different possible social contracts that characterize the transition and differentiating between them in terms of their extractivity/inclusivity and stability, the paper suggests that Morocco tends to have an extractive but stable social contract. The European Union's growing demand on renewables and decarbonization represents a largely exogenous cause that set certain mechanisms through the activities of various state and social actors. Contextual conditions then shaped the impact of these activities on the resulting social contract. The presence of a powerful state that shared strong connections with powerful but subservient tycoons magnified the impact of their activities at the expense of those of other social actors, while other contextual conditions helped cement a pro-green transition policy coalition. The benefits accrued to those partners of the pro-coalition making it an extractive social contract, while the absence of a clear interest identification against the transition among other social actors made the emergence of a contra policy coalition less likely and stabilized the social contract.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-18DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101575
Richard Meissner
In late 2021, protests occurred in South Africa against Shell's planned seismic surveys along the Wild Coast. Environmentalists have expressed concerns that these surveys could adversely affect marine life and harm fisheries and the ecological balance. Critics argued that Shell bypassed environmental assessments to gain permission for these surveys. Activists and protesters urged Shell and the government to halt the exploration to protect the Wild Coast and its marine life. Business owners in tourist areas were also worried about the potential impact on tourism. This topic became a national debate and gained significant attention from various media outlets. Shell and the Department of Minerals and Energy defended the exploration by stating that it would be sustainable and beneficial for the country's energy needs. The paper is a case study investigating offshore oil and gas exploration along the Wild Coast. Using the argumentative discourse analysis approach, the report aims to highlight the role of political science and international relations in deepening our understanding of the interaction between humans and marine and maritime resources.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-15DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101613
Hadassah Arian , Espérant Mwishamali Lukobo , Sara Geenen , Sarah Katz-Lavigne
Since around 2016, the world has seen a mushrooming of so-called ‘responsible cobalt sourcing’ initiatives, aiming to tackle a series of human rights and (child) labour concerns around the artisanal and small-scale (ASM) mines in Lualaba province, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These initiatives include state-led efforts, such as the launch of the Entreprise Générale du Cobalt and the inauguration of the Musompo Trading Centre, as well as industry-led initiatives, such as the Fair Cobalt Alliance, Mutoshi Pilot Project, and RCS Better Mining. Whereas several of these have been analyzed separately, there is a gap in the literature providing a holistic understanding of these developments; how they have emerged, how they are interconnected, and how they are sustained, despite arguably limited impact for ASM communities. In this article, we fill this gap by conceptualizing the ‘responsible cobalt sourcing assemblage.’ We argue that the assemblage approach helps to foreground the non-linearity and contingency of responsible sourcing while also acknowledging the ongoing labor of (re)shaping and sustaining the assemblage. Using Li's (2007a) analytic of assemblage practices, we unpack the processuality, multiplicity and agency of the assemblage.
{"title":"The responsible cobalt sourcing assemblage: Thinking through a booming governance framework","authors":"Hadassah Arian , Espérant Mwishamali Lukobo , Sara Geenen , Sarah Katz-Lavigne","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101613","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101613","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since around 2016, the world has seen a mushrooming of so-called ‘responsible cobalt sourcing’ initiatives, aiming to tackle a series of human rights and (child) labour concerns around the artisanal and small-scale (ASM) mines in Lualaba province, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These initiatives include state-led efforts, such as the launch of the <em>Entreprise Générale du Cobalt</em> and the inauguration of the Musompo Trading Centre, as well as industry-led initiatives, such as the Fair Cobalt Alliance, Mutoshi Pilot Project, and RCS Better Mining. Whereas several of these have been analyzed separately, there is a gap in the literature providing a holistic understanding of these developments; how they have emerged, how they are interconnected, and how they are sustained, despite arguably limited impact for ASM communities. In this article, we fill this gap by conceptualizing the ‘responsible cobalt sourcing assemblage.’ We argue that the assemblage approach helps to foreground the non-linearity and contingency of responsible sourcing while also acknowledging the ongoing labor of (re)shaping and sustaining the assemblage. Using Li's (2007a) analytic of assemblage practices, we unpack the processuality, multiplicity and agency of the assemblage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101613"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Legislation and policy frameworks on mineral resource exploitation and landownership rights in South Africa were heavily influenced by the Roman-Dutch law. These legal frameworks changed from 1795 with the annexation of the Cape by the British, and the discoveries of Gold and diamonds in the 19th century in South Africa. Expectedly, scholars have documented the evolution and development of mineral resources and landownership rights in South Africa. However, while there is interesting scholarship on mineral resource exploitation and landownership rights in South Africa, this scholarship fail to see mineral legislation from the perspective of eminent domain. Thus, this paper contextualized the doctrine of ‘custodianship’ as embedded in the Mineral and Petroleum Development Act of 2004 (MPRDA) within the conceptual framework of eminent domain. The paper uses discourse analysis to analyze historical and legal documents and academic literature. The analysis revealed that the doctrine of ‘custodianship’ as used in MPRDA connotes eminent domain. This is because the doctrine implies that nation's mineral resources are res publicae (belong to all South Africans, and the state is the custodian thereof). Looking at the notion of ‘custodianship’ in this way would open a new discussion on mineral resource discourse in post-apartheid South Africa.
{"title":"Mineral resource exploitation and landownership rights: Understanding the ‘doctrine of custodianship’ in minerals and mining legislation in South Africa","authors":"Moshood Issah , Lanre Abdul-Rasheed Sulaiman , Abdullateef Raji , Fatima Aliu , Ridwan Olabisi Yusuff , Salihu Zakariyyah Abdulbaqi , Sunday Joseph Akor , Nurudeen Adesola Malik","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101611","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101611","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Legislation and policy frameworks on mineral resource exploitation and landownership rights in South Africa were heavily influenced by the Roman-Dutch law. These legal frameworks changed from 1795 with the annexation of the Cape by the British, and the discoveries of Gold and diamonds in the 19th century in South Africa. Expectedly, scholars have documented the evolution and development of mineral resources and landownership rights in South Africa. However, while there is interesting scholarship on mineral resource exploitation and landownership rights in South Africa, this scholarship fail to see mineral legislation from the perspective of eminent domain. Thus, this paper contextualized the doctrine of ‘custodianship’ as embedded in the Mineral and Petroleum Development Act of 2004 (MPRDA) within the conceptual framework of eminent domain. The paper uses discourse analysis to analyze historical and legal documents and academic literature. The analysis revealed that the doctrine of ‘custodianship’ as used in MPRDA connotes eminent domain. This is because the doctrine implies that nation's mineral resources are <em>res publicae</em> (belong to all South Africans, and the state is the custodian thereof). Looking at the notion of ‘custodianship’ in this way would open a new discussion on mineral resource discourse in post-apartheid South Africa.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101611"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-11DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101612
Dayana Madeira Nogueira, Odilanei Morais dos Santos
We examine how information about stranded assets resulting from the energy transition is highlighted in the financial reports published by companies in the oil and gas sector. We analyzed 209 financial reports published by twenty-six companies between 2013 and 2022. The analysis revealed that only four companies disclosed the risks that part of their fossil assets might not be produced in their financial reports, classifying them as stranded assets, representing only 10% of the sample. Most of these disclosures occurred from 2020 onward, aligning with literature indicating that companies have increased their climate-related disclosures recently. We further identified that one company reported that some of its assets had already become stranded, indicating the materialization of this risk and showing that it is a real problem. However, we observed a need for uniformity in how companies conduct this disclosure, raising the need for accounting regulation. Since this is a developing topic, especially in accounting, we want to encourage further research on stranded assets.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-09DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101607
Suriya Klangrit , Vimal Kumar , Tzu-Chuen Lu , David D. Perrodin
Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper examines the background and commodification of Prakuam as a cultural heritage among Khmer ethnic communities in Surin Province, Thailand. The study was guided by a key informant, Lung Puan Jiewthong, a master silversmith selected from Chok Village in Khawao-Sinarin District, Surin Province, along with secondary data. The findings provide detailed insights into the backgrounds and cultural identities of the inhabitants of these ethnic communities. Prakuam refers to methods and styles of silverware-making that have been practiced over hundreds of years. Some silversmiths can trace their lineages to artist communities that existed during the Khmer Empire; local knowledge and techniques have been, and continue to be, transmitted from generation to generation. Prakuam objects and patterns manifest local identities and beliefs, with silver holding essential meanings and functions in Surin Province, particularly in the silverware-making village of Khwao Sinarin. Present-day silver products from Khwao Sinarin are consumed both locally and nationally. The popularity of Prakuam has spread, in part, due to craft promotion programs like One Tambon One Product (OTOP), which have significantly impacted community life in Surin Province. However, the emphasis on economic survival in a globalized world has diluted the significance of local cultural practices and meanings associated with Prakuam. A sizable portion of the belief system is lost when Prakuam is viewed solely as a market commodity, and OTOP programs fail to actively foster sustainable cultural preservation. The findings emerging from this research can be used to craft holistic, contextually-appropriate cultural preservation policies that are responsive to the dynamics of today's society.
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