How do we know what we know about an organization's history? What methodologies do
historians use? I explain and adapt the historical method of source criticism for …

In the twenty-first century, the relationship between violent conflict and natural resources has
become a matter of intense public and academic debate. As a result of fervent activism and …

The study of the impacts of new mining projects in Africa is generally set in a normative
debate about their possible contribution to development, which leads to a representation of …

It is now twenty years since people began to debate the question of how mining companies
could show that they possessed a 'social licence'for industrial activities that are known to …

What is a national economy? What does it measure, value, or represent? What does it do?
This article argues for ethnographic attention to national economies as a serial global form …

Die 1970er Jahre wurden von einer gigantischen» Regierbarkeitskrise «erschüttert: Die
Wirtschaftswelt hatte mit massiver Disziplinlosigkeit der Arbeiter zu kämpfen, aber auch mit …

Worldwide, subsurface resources are typically the domain of the state. Their cataloguing and
government-permitted extraction comprise key elements of state territorialization of the …

The expansion of industrial mining in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has
sparked social mobilization in gold mining concessions, most of which are important sites for …

The extraction of groundwater and the regulation of its use in many parts of the world have
been found to present a particular kind of problem. A contest involving mining companies …

At the dawn of the recent mining boom, James Ferguson has forcefully argued that new
investors in Africa develop a new capital-intensive mode of production within securitized …