Ubeshi - negotiating co-existence: artisanal and large-scale relations in diamond mining.
Abstract
This chapter discusses how artisanal miners negotiate their survival within a diamond-resourced area in Shinyanga, Tanzania. It explores how insensitive mineral resource governance systems converge over time with ecological and infrastructural challenges to constrain people바카라 사이트™s livelihoods. In the absence of better sources of living, the local population strives to survive through ubeshi, the stealing of diamond-bearing materials from within a large-scale Mining Company area formerly owned by Williamson Diamond Mines Limited (WDL). This practice has become accepted as 바카라 사이트˜a way of life바카라 사이트™ by those involved, and engages players of different social positions, irrespective of many efforts made to curb it. Analyzing agency from the bottom, the chapter explains how a group of people are molded, respond and strive to co-exist within a challenging institutional context that is not favorable to small-scale operators.
Citation
Mwaipopo, R. Ubeshi - negotiating co-existence: artisanal and large-scale relations in diamond mining. In: Mining and social transformation in Africa: Mineralizing and democratizing trends in artisanal production. Routledge, Abingdon, UK 161-175. ISBN 9780415833707