Law enforcement against illegal mining and the formalization of artisanal and small-scale
mining (ASM) share similar challenges, yet research has examined both as separate policy …

Sites of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in sub-Saharan Africa are often places of
contestation and dispossession, particularly because mining laws and policies have …

This article discusses the results of a pilot research strategy for monitoring environmental
hazards derived from the use of mercury in artisanal gold mining in the Alto Cauca region …

This article argues that the entanglements of a growing global demand for construction
material and neoliberal resource governance result in an incremental and piecemeal form of …

Colombia's economy largely relies on an extractivist logic that increasingly focuses on
industrial mineral extraction. The industry is regularly depicted as a means to bring …

Sand is one of the most extracted materials in the world and a fundamental input for the
construction sector. Currently, extraction rates exceed the natural rates of renewal locally …

Scholarship on small-scale gold extraction has often understood mining regions to be
'informal'spaces that suffer from 'failed,''weak,'or 'absent'statehood. Such insistence on the …

Despite many similarities, the gold rush that hit the Andean countries in 2004 elicited
different state responses in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. Initially, there was a lack of …

Subjectivity is at the core of contestations in environmental politics. This article explores the
dynamics of such contestations by analyzing how collective subjectivities relate to the state …

Colombia's contentious agrarian dynamics have been at the centre of both the armed
conflict and peace process. This article reveals the discrepancies between land-tenure …