30 juin 2022
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Editorial Board, « Digging Deeper: Contested Livelihoods and Sociocosmological Relations among Artisanal Miners in Laos », TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, ID : 10.58079/ut50
By Oliver Tappe When I first visited the Lao tin mining area by the river Nam Phathaen (Khammouane province) in 2019, I was struck by the image of local villagers digging small pits and tunnels next to the roaring excavators of a Chinese mining company operating in the area. Equipped with simple tools, wearing flip-flops and no hardhats, they climbed down precarious bamboo ladders to extract the mineral. This practice also took place in abandoned mines that since the 1920s had been exploited...