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The (In)Visibility of Women and Mining: The Gendering of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Sub-Saharan Africa

Edited by Blair Rutherford, Edited by Doris Buss

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The chapters in this book provide in- depth insight into the gender norms and contexts in which women work in the expanding informal mining sector in sub- Saharan Africa. Collectively, the research here provides a nuanced account of womenâ€™s livelihood strategies in artisanal and small- scale mining (ASM, as its generally known) in ways that challenge images of womenâ€” as either victimized by mining or empowered by mining livelihoods, or bothâ€” that tend to dominate the growing array of donor and policy interventions in this sector. The authors come from different disciplinary traditionsâ€” anthropology, economics, political science, mining engineering, lawâ€” but all place questions of gendered power front and centre in their analyses of sociocultural, institutional, economic and political relationships, practices and arrangements within which women navigate their mining livelihoods. The physical or representational presence (and sometimes absence) of women in ASM sites is a linking theme, with the chapters exploring different dimensions of mining and genderâ€” the gendered divisions of labour, migration, land ownership, cultural norms, and gendered authority relationsâ€” but also how â€˜womenâ€™ materialize and are seen and unseen in the growing array of transnational interventions in this sector. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.