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1. Mining and Social Transformation in Africa

   Mineralizing and Democratizing Trends in Artisanal Production

   Edited by Deborah F. Bryceson, Eleanor Fisher, Jesper Jonsson, Rosemarie Mwaipopo

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the booming international market for minerals. Spurred by the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have been engaged in a massive search...

   To Be Published September 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. Mining and African Urbanisation

   Population, Settlement and Welfare Trajectories

   Edited by Deborah F Bryceson, Daniel F MacKinnon

   Juxtaposing literatures on urbanisation and mining at a time when small-scale artisanal as well as large-scale mining operations are transforming many African economies, this book focuses on the interplay of Sub-Saharan Africa mining and urbanisation in the context of global shifts in capital and...

   To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge