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dc.contributor.authorBryceson, Deborah
dc.contributor.authorMacKinnon, Daniel
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Africa
dc.coverage.spatialZambia
dc.coverage.spatialZimbabwe
dc.coverage.spatialTanzania
dc.coverage.spatialGhana
dc.coverage.spatialAngola
dc.coverage.spatialDemocratic Republic of Congo
dc.coverage.spatialSierra Leone
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-24T12:56:06Z
dc.date.available2017-03-24T12:56:06Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationBryceson, D. and MacKinnon, D. (2012) Eureka and Beyond: Mining's Impact on African Urbanisation, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 30 (4), pp. 513-537. DOI:10.1080/02589001.2012.719376
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/12925
dc.description.abstractThis collection brings separate literatures on mining and urbanisation together at a time when both artisanal and large-scale mining are expanding in many African economies. While much has been written about contestation over land and mineral rights, the impact of mining on settlement, notably its catalytic and fluctuating effects on migration and urban growth, has been largely ignored. African nation-states’ urbanisation trends have shown considerable variation over the past half century. The current surge in ‘new’ mining countries and the slow-down in ‘old’ mining countries are generating some remarkable settlement patterns and welfare outcomes. Presently, the African continent is a laboratory of national mining experiences. This special issue on African mining and urbanisation encompasses a wide cross-section of country case studies: beginning with the historical experiences of mining in Southern Africa (South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe), followed by more recent mineralizing trends in comparatively new mineral-producing countries (Tanzania) and an established West African gold producer (Ghana), before turning to the influence of conflict minerals (Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone).
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectEconomic Development
dc.subjectRural Development
dc.subjectIndustrial Development
dc.subjectImpact Innovation
dc.subjectScience and Society
dc.titleEureka and Beyond: Mining's Impact on African Urbanisation
dc.typeArticle
dc.rights.holder© 2012 The Institute of Social and Economic Research
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2012.719376
dc.identifier.agRES-167-25-0488, ES/H033521/1
dc.identifier.agEPD/712
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02589001.2012.719376


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