What Local Gold Extraction Tells Us about a Globalized Mining Economy

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By Diana Ayeh Diana Ayeh, Spaces of Responsibility: Negotiating Industrial Gold Mining in Burkina Faso (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021). When I first came to Houndé (Province of Tuy) in November 2016, the town of 150,000 inhabitants in southwestern Burkina Faso already had a certain gold-rush atmosphere. Not only was the landscape in and around Houndé marked with indications for future extraction (e.g., flags and fences symbolizing corporate ‘possessions’). The construction of ...

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