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Title Artisanal gold mining in Kejetia (Tongo, Northern Ghana): a three-dimensional perspective | ||
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https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3257033 | ||
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Date 2020 | ||
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Author(s) Camp, E. van de | ||
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Contributor(s) Huggins, C. | ||
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Abstract Using in-depth ethnographic analysis of Kejetia's artisanal gold mining community in Tongo (Northern Ghana), this article argues that governance is based on artisanal gold miners' three-dimensional orientation towards both 'above-ground' social'political relations and regulations (a geometrically two-dimensional orientation) and the 'subterranean' geological sphere (which literally adds depth and a third geometric dimension). A substance relation to gold also means that its properties and geological context strongly influence miners' micro governance, as do miners' cosmological perceptions of gold's relationship to the above-ground and subterranean spheres. Hence, gold acquisition is embedded in a web of geological, social and cosmological relations beyond actual excavation. Artisanal mining policy and research should recognise the impact of this threedimensional orientation and substance approach. - Global Challenges (FSW) | ||
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Language en | ||
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Type of publication Part of book or chapter of book; info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart; Text | ||
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Source Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Critical Approaches | ||
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Identifier isbn:9781032090450; lucris-id:435304732 | ||
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Repository Leiden - University of Leiden 
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