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Masculinities without men: The work experiences of local female employees in a Chinese mine in Papua New Guinea 没有男人的阳刚之气：巴布亚新几内亚中资矿山当地女员工的工作经历

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101688

I-Chang Kuo

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The role of earth observation technologies in enhancing social acceptance of mining operations 地球观测技术在提高社会对采矿作业的接受度方面的作用

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101689

Maria Mavroudi , Michael Tost , Magdalena Eckl , Gloria Ammerer , George Barakos

{"title":"The role of earth observation technologies in enhancing social acceptance of mining operations","authors":"Maria Mavroudi , Michael Tost , Magdalena Eckl , Gloria Ammerer , George Barakos","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101689","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101689","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The low level of social acceptance of the extractive industry in Europe remains a significant challenge, despite the growing use of emerging technologies that improve operational efficiency and promote responsible mining practices. This study investigates public perceptions of mining and examines the potential role of Earth Observation (EO) technologies in enhancing social acceptance, using selected regions in Austria, a country with a long mining tradition, as case studies. A combination of quantitative and qualitative social research methods was used to collect perspectives from residents and stakeholders both near and distant from mining areas. Results indicate that mining regions generally show higher acceptance due to economic dependency and cultural ties, though concerns persist. Urban respondents, while recognizing mining's economic value, emphasized ethical and environmental issues. EO technologies were met with skepticism, reflecting broader distrust of new technologies and media. Many respondents were unaware of EO technologies and their potential mining applications. Although transparency was valued, EO was not seen as vital for public engagement. Overall, EO technologies could enhance transparency and trust, yet unawareness and skepticism remain barriers to their adoption in the mining sector. The research underscores the potential for EO technologies to improve social acceptance, under certain conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101689"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144124239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Understanding the motivations of small-scale miners in Yukon, Canada through a human-nature connection (HNC) framework and meaningful rural work 通过人与自然联系（HNC）框架和有意义的农村工作，了解加拿大育空地区小型矿工的动机

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101685

C.L. Johnson , K.R Moore , D Johnson

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Extracting insights: A systematic review of mining impacts on indigenous peoples 提炼见解：采矿对土著人民影响的系统回顾

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101686

Karen Bouchard

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The complex economics of a complete ban on child labor in the cobalt supply chain: The case of the DR Congo 在钴供应链中全面禁止童工的复杂经济学：以刚果民主共和国为例

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101687

John M. Ulimwengu , Blandine Sanginga

{"title":"The complex economics of a complete ban on child labor in the cobalt supply chain: The case of the DR Congo","authors":"John M. Ulimwengu , Blandine Sanginga","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101687","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101687","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Child labor in the cobalt mining sector of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains entrenched due to widespread poverty, high educational costs, and limited adult employment opportunities. Legal prohibitions, while important, have proven insufficient and may inadvertently drive child labor further underground. This study evaluates alternative, welfare-oriented strategies—including conditional cash transfers (CCTs), educational subsidies, and labor market reforms—to provide sustainable solutions. The analysis finds that even modest annual CCTs per child can significantly reduce child labor, especially when combined with the elimination of indirect schooling costs. Enhancing adult wages further diminishes household reliance on child labor, although this requires broader structural reforms. Corporate social responsibility remains essential; however, voluntary ethical sourcing initiatives have largely failed to address the issue. Effective change will require a comprehensive, phased transition that integrates economic support mechanisms, robust legal enforcement, and binding corporate accountability. Collaboration among governments, businesses, and international stakeholders is critical to developing ethical and sustainable supply chains that eliminate child labor without exacerbating household vulnerability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101687"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144099155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Shifts in the control of natural resources: An analysis of the resource curse in Tin-Rich Bangka Belitung, Indonesia 自然资源控制的转变：印尼富锡邦加勿里洞的资源诅咒分析

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101682

Delfirman , Hilmy M. Dzaki

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Stainless success, battery lag: Evaluation of Indonesia's resource nationalism in nickel 不锈钢成功，电池滞后：印尼镍资源民族主义评价

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101677

Selma Benazir Khalil, Anna Broughel

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Towards advancing the Global South’s understanding of mineral criticality: implications of the North–South geopolitical confrontations on critical minerals 促进全球南方对矿物关键性的理解：南北地缘政治对抗对关键矿物的影响

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101680

Desire Runganga, Peta Ashworth, Bishal Bharadwaj

{"title":"Towards advancing the Global South’s understanding of mineral criticality: implications of the North–South geopolitical confrontations on critical minerals","authors":"Desire Runganga, Peta Ashworth, Bishal Bharadwaj","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101680","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101680","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The North–South critical minerals conflict, traced back to the 1975 UN General Assembly resource confrontation, is becoming so pronounced that it may slow down or increase the costs associated with the energy transition. To reveal the geopolitical implications of criticality, particularly in weaker Global South countries, this study uses qualitative content analysis to analyse the historical conceptualisation of strategic and critical minerals from 1918 to 2024 and the emerging methodologies from different countries post-2010. The study reveals that criticality was developed from self-interested terms, and there have been some efforts to reframe it as a global concept to promote cooperation in fighting climate change. However, the study notes that the increasing use of self-interested criticality methodologies by China and Global North countries contradicts re-framing criticality as a global concept. Re-framing criticality as a global concept, despite the continued use of geopolitically skewed metrics, may help Global South countries to easily forget criticality’s controversial issues, particularly the Global South’s interest in having a share in global manufacturing. The study concludes that criticality is an important tool that informs international and domestic resource policy. However, it is a scalable, localised concept. Global South countries must localise the criticality to avoid contributing to their own demise, as the concept is non-altruistic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101680"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144068115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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White Mining’s Green Dream: Entropy and the mirage of sustainability in Northern Chile 白色矿业的绿色梦想：熵和可持续性在智利北部的海市蜃楼

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101683

Cristóbal Bonelli , Andrés Pavez

{"title":"White Mining’s Green Dream: Entropy and the mirage of sustainability in Northern Chile","authors":"Cristóbal Bonelli , Andrés Pavez","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101683","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101683","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article critically examines the \"green dream\" of lithium mining in northern Chile, framing extraction as indispensable for addressing the climate crisis while obscuring its irreversible ecological, social, and epistemic consequences. Drawing on Bernard Stiegler's concept of <em>Entropocene</em>, we introduce the notion of entropic omissions to analyze how extractivist logics not only conceal damage, but degrade the conditions for perceiving, imagining, and responding to it. Based on ethnographic research in the Atacama Desert, we show how these omissions are embedded in both technical reasoning and institutional frameworks—shaping what is made visible, actionable, and imaginable. Through the cases of a mining engineer and a state agency, we trace how entropy is named yet neutralized, acknowledged yet unthought. We situate these findings within broader debates on entropy, extractivism, and sustainability, offering a critique of degrowth perspectives. While degrowth challenges economic expansion and resource overuse, it overlooks the deeper systemic and colonial dimensions of extractive reasoning. We argue that responses to the climate crisis must go beyond emissions reduction to confront the omissions that sustain extractive futures. Emphasizing the urgency of reclaiming critical capacities, this article calls for awaken alternative ways of dreaming beyond the green extractivist horizon.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101683"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143950384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Is South Africa afflicted by the resource curse? 南非正在遭受资源诅咒吗？

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101678

Ross Harvey , Stuart Morrison , Pranish Desai

{"title":"Is South Africa afflicted by the resource curse?","authors":"Ross Harvey , Stuart Morrison , Pranish Desai","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101678","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101678","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper addresses the question of how best to explain South Africa's prolonged economic stagnation, manifest especially in manufacturing decline, both in total employment share and value addition to the economy. Despite its wealth of natural resources, South Africa's economic performance – especially in the manufacturing sector – has been weak, especially since 2008. The extent to which the country's resource abundance determines manufacturing performance has largely been overlooked in the literature. Utilising analytic narrative, we examine the plausibility of competing hypotheses that may account for manufacturing decline in South Africa. Our primary hypothesis is that South Africa is afflicted by a particular manifestation of the resource curse known as “Dutch Disease”. After examining several explanatory hypotheses, we conclude that the decline of South Africa's manufacturing industry is strongly linked to its reliance on mineral rents, but through multiple channels. The decline is exacerbated by poor institutional quality, itself driven by \"state capture,\" hindering the country's ability to combat corruption and inefficiencies in government effectiveness. To recover from these dynamics, we suggest that South Africa should focus on strengthening institutions, improving political governance, and enhancing financial transparency. Addressing these challenges is crucial to manufacturing recovery, diversifying the economy and fostering broad-based economic development in South Africa.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101678"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143923619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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