New directions in research on women and gender in extractive industries

Lahiri‐Dutt, Kuntala

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2022.101048

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“…Lanzano and Arnaldi di for example show in West Africa a shifting control over leftovers from ore processing from female to male hands, as part of a shift in technological innovation from mercury to cyanide. This growing body of work on gender shines an important light on the impacts of mining on artisan mining women's lives, but it also demonstrates the importance of gender as a sociocultural system or institution that mediates relations of depletion between artisan mining and extractivism (Byemba, 2020;Kassa, 2020;Lahiri-Dutt, 2022). Here, I briefly map out some key avenues in further questioning these relations.…”

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“…Addressing these questions would be an important step further in accounting for the socioenvironmental injustice through which artisan mining connects to wider extractivist supply chains and the governance thereof, and moving beyond analytical categories of in/formality that have proven difficult to hold empirically. Here, I choose to highlight infuriation because it is an emotion that stands in contradistinction with sense of hopelessness and victimhood that extractivist depletion may inspire (Lahiri-Dutt, 2022). But the point is to encourage research that queries artisan miners' own sentiments toward gendered and racialized extractivist depletion.…”

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“…In doing so it has emphasized the role that gender and race play in mediating extractivist human/nonhuman relations, that are also key in artisan mining, and I develop this below. The second reason for drawing on feminist approaches specifically, is that they have developed conceptual linkages between emotions and embodiement in a way that challenges narratives of passive victimhood under conditions of social and environmental injustices (Caretta and Zaragocin, 2020;Lahiri-Dutt, 2022). I find that highlighting the emotional politics of depletion brings into focus the voices and representations of artisan miners that are marginalized under extractive capitalism and the transformative potential of affect (González-Hidalgo and Zografos, 2019;Nightingale et al, 2022).…”

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Furious depletion—Conceptualizing artisan mining and extractivism through gender, race, and environment

Côte¹

2023

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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A buoyant debate has grown in political ecology and agrarian studies around the concept of extractivism. It shines a light on forms of human and non-human depletion that fuel contemporary capitalism. Within this debate however, artisan mining has been hard to fit in. Artisan mining is a form of small scale mineral extraction that occupies around 45 million people around the world, and sustains the life of many more, especially in the Global South. Much research has looked at this expanding form of livelihood, particularly through the prism of its persistent informality, its labor organization, and its challenges to environmental and labor rights. However, it has not been well-theorized in relations to extractivism, sitting uncomfortably with dominant categories such as “the community”, “the company”, and “social movements” in political ecology analyses. The paper maps out entry points to studying the significance of artisan mining within dynamics of extractive capitalism by bringing in conversation political ecology scholarship on extractivism and research on artisan mining through a feminist lens. It develops the notions of “furious depletion”, attempting to capture the stark socioenvironmental injustice through which artisan mining forms an integral part of extractive capitalism, as both a victim and fuel thereof. The notion also emphasizes the significance of emotions - such as infuriation - in thinking through unjust human-environment relations for transformation. It focuses specifically on the ways relations of gender and race mediate human-environment relations, can help clarify an understanding of artisan mining in the depletion dynamics underlying extractivism. Given the acceleration of mining as part of digital and energy transitions, and the expansion of artisan mining, an engaged conceptualization of artisan mining may support struggles away from extractive capitalism for the decades to come.

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“…Within the extractive industries, women are more likely to face increased burdens such as the production of food, obtaining water, caring for family members impacted by contamination, and increased risks of violence (Seck and Simons, 2019; see also Simons, 2016; Tran, 2023; WILPF, 2017; Kestler-D'amours, 2022). While efforts have been made to address gender inequality and diversity (see, for example, Benshaul-Tolonen, 2022; Kincaid and Smith, 2021; Sasikala and Sankaranarayanan, 2022; Kaggwa, 2020) [4], the extractive industries with its traditional hierarchical, masculine-centric leadership model (Mackenzie, 2019), has been slower in transitioning a more diverse and inclusive sector (Lahiri-Dutt, 2022; Lemma et al ., 2023; Sasikala and Sankaranarayanan, 2022).…”

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Accounting in and by the extractive industries: development of a conceptual framework and avenues for future research

Samkin,

Mihret,

Lemma

2024

MEDAR

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Purpose We develop a conceptual framework as a basis for thinking about the impact of extractive industries and emancipatory potential of alternative accounts. We then review selected alternative accounts literature on some contemporary issues surrounding the extractive industries and identify opportunities for accounting, auditing, and accountability research. We also provide an overview of the other contributions in this special issue. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on alternative accounts from the popular and social media as well as the alternative accounting literature, this primarily discursive paper provides a contemporary literature review of identified issues within the extractive industries highlighting potential areas for future research. The eight papers that make up the special issue are located within a conceptual framework is employed to illustrate each paper’s contribution to the field. Findings While accounting has a rich literature covering some of the issues detailed in this paper, this has not necessarily translated to the extractive industries. Few studies in accounting have got “down and dirty” so to speak and engaged directly with those impacted by companies operating in the extractive industries. Those that have, have focused on specific areas such as the Niger Delta. Although prior studies in the social governance literature have tended to focus on disclosure issues, it is questionable whether this work, while informative, has resulted in any meaningful environmental, social or governance (ESG) changes on the part of the extractive industries. Research limitations/implications The extensive extractive industries literature both from within and outside the accounting discipline makes a comprehensive review impractical. Drawing on both the accounting literature and other disciplines, this paper identifies areas that warrant further investigation through alternative accounts. Originality/value This paper and other contributions to this special issue provide a basis and an agenda for accounting scholars seeking to undertake interdisciplinary research into the extractive industries.

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“…Andersson (2012) visar hur mystifiering av det gamla gruvarbetet nära berget tillsammans med en idealisering av en i många andra sammanhang kritiserad machomanlighet varit centralt för skapande av den rådande gruvarbetarmanligheten. Den här könade yrkesidentiteten har varit tätt sammanlänkad med gruvarbetets organisering och arbetsplatser vilket har bidragit till reproduktion av könade arbetsplatskulturer, arbetsmiljöer, arbeten och kroppar (Marston 2021;Lahiri-Dutt 2022). Det är en typ av manlighet som har en hegemonisk, överordnad position lokalt på gruvarbetsplatserna och den reproduceras i arbetarkollektiven, i de omgivande lokalsamhällena och genom gruvföretagens arbetsorganisation.…”

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Abrahamsson,

Johansson,

Tosser Franklin

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This article discusses how changes in male-dominated work are connected to changes in gender constructions in the workplaces. The discussion is based on results from research conducted 2001–2021, mainly qualitative empirical studies of mine work. Although the development of the mining industry will not be as technologically deterministic and rapid as the usual dystopian and utopian visions predict, our research shows that there has already been changes that have affected mine work and workplaces. These changes have challenged the old, gendered mining workplace cultures and the implementation of new technology and reorganisation initially met resistance in the workplace. Workplace cultures seemed to be lagging behind in their acceptance of technological and organizational changes. The resistance was shaped in relation to intertwined masculinities and miner identities linked to the old ‘macho masculin-ity’, a form of local hegemonic masculinity built upon overarching myths and discourses about both mining and rural communities. The subsequent changes of mining work resulted in new gender encodings of the new technology and the new spaces of work – which created new organisational gender boundaries and new forms of inequality. At the same time, there are new forms of masculinities and feminini-ties emerging in mining organizations, which can provide openings for gender equality. Although mine work continues to be male dominated, we can see that new places, new technology, improved work environment and increased gender equality seem to imply that it has become difficult to preserve the old (‘macho’) miner masculinity and to maintain the gender marking of mining work as male and the image of the miner as male. As of now, the ‘green transition’ and the acceleration of new digital technologies implemented in mine work is beginning to shape the industrial workplaces of northern Sweden. The discourses of “green” and “technological transformation” are permeated by gendered preconceptions, by some expected to reshape the masculine workplace of the mine. Yet, our conclusion is that transformation of gendered structures in mining is not foremost dependent of technological change. Rather, we have seen complex connections between gender, technology, work and place for these male-dominated industrial workplaces, including processes of both stability and change, suggesting that changes in workplaces does not only challenge but also reproduce and reconfigure gender-based preconceptions and social constructions of gender.

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New directions in research on women and gender in extractive industries

Cited by 13 publications

References 60 publications

Furious depletion—Conceptualizing artisan mining and extractivism through gender, race, and environment

Furious depletion—Conceptualizing artisan mining and extractivism through gender, race, and environment

Accounting in and by the extractive industries: development of a conceptual framework and avenues for future research

Maskuliniteter i förändring på mansdominerade arbetsplatser. Exemplet gruvindustrin

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