World War III has yet to happen, and yet material evidence of this conflict is strewn
everywhere: resting at the bottom of the ocean, rusting in deserts, and floating in near-Earth …

How much is a body with minerals worth? Through the lens of lead‐exposure politics, this
article analyzes how people living near the mineral‐storage yards of Peru's seaport of El …

Switzerland is usually not looked upon as a substantial economic actor in Africa. Taking
Zambian copper as a case study, we show how important Swiss companies have become in …

Contamination offers a new observatory for anthropological theory. But does it bring us
closer to the world at hand? I have spent the past five years working with residents in …

The social relations of resource extraction and the settings where these activities occur can
be understood as 'zones of entanglement'. Our notion of entanglement draws upon two …

This introduction provides a review of articles published in the special section on community
conservation in the Wallacea region. As editors to the special section, we worked with …

As sustainability gains popularity in public discourse, scholars have noted its diverse uses,
multiple meanings, and contradictory outcomes. This paper explores how the current …

Abstract Residents of the Komi Republic have enjoyed some benefits from the oil industry,
through taxation, jobs and business opportunities. They have also suffered repeated oil …

Gold, precious yet painstakingly extracted, fuels the dreams of diggers, traders, managers,
investors and consumers at the local and the global level. But gold extraction and trade are …

Corporations are treated as fictional persons for legal purposes in the United States and
many other countries. The doctrine of corporate personhood permits corporations to make …