The Global Production Network for iron ore: materiality, corporate strategies, and social contestation in Brazil

Santos, Rodrigo Salles Pereira dos; Milanez, Bruno

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2015.07.002

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“…Iron ore extraction in the eastern Amazon occurs mainly in ferruginous mountain outcrops surrounded by rainforests in the Carajás mineral province, covering some of the largest iron reservoirs of the world [ 1 ]. This ecosystem is characterized by a high plant diversity that forms different phytophysiognomies known as canga [ 2 ].…”

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Proteomic Profiling and Rhizosphere-Associated Microbial Communities Reveal Adaptive Mechanisms of Dioclea apurensis Kunth in Eastern Amazon’s Rehabilitating Minelands

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Dioclea apurensis Kunth is native to ferruginous rocky outcrops (known as canga) in the eastern Amazon. Native cangas are considered hotspots of biological diversity and have one of the largest iron ore deposits in the world. There, D. apurensis can grow in post-mining areas where molecular mechanisms and rhizospheric interactions with soil microorganisms are expected to contribute to their establishment in rehabilitating minelands (RM). In this study, we compare the root proteomic profile and rhizosphere-associated bacterial and fungal communities of D. apurensis growing in canga and RM to characterize the main mechanisms that allow the growth and establishment in post-mining areas. The results showed that proteins involved in response to oxidative stress, drought, excess of iron, and phosphorus deficiency showed higher levels in canga and, therefore, helped explain its high establishment rates in RM. Rhizospheric selectivity of microorganisms was more evident in canga. The microbial community structure was mostly different between the two habitats, denoting that despite having its preferences, D. apurensis can associate with beneficial soil microorganisms without specificity. Therefore, its good performance in RM can also be improved or attributed to its ability to cope with beneficial soil-borne microorganisms. Native plants with such adaptations must be used to enhance the rehabilitation process.

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Proteomic Profiling and Rhizosphere-Associated Microbial Communities Reveal Adaptive Mechanisms of Dioclea apurensis Kunth in Eastern Amazon’s Rehabilitating Minelands

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“…Although the iron-ore deposit turned out to be of lower quality than its sellers marketed, the mine opened, mainly because of the sunk cost spent in building the 525 km long pipeline (Pedlowski 2013). Map 3 below (based on Santos and Milanez 2015) illustrates that there are three long minerodutos (mining slurry lines) running from Minas Gerais to the coastal ports, as well as three railroad lines.…”

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Iron Will

Kröger¹

2020

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Iron Will lays bare the role of extractivist policies and efforts to resist these policies through a deep ethnographic exploration of globally important iron ore mining in Brazil and India. Markus Kröger addresses resistance strategies to extractivism and tracks their success, or lack thereof, through a comparison of peaceful and armed resource conflicts, explaining how different means of resistance arise. Using the distinctly different contexts and political systems of Brazil and India highlights the importance of local context for resistance. For example, if there is an armed conflict at a planned mining site, how does this influence the possibility to use peaceful resistance strategies? To answer such questions, Kröger assesses the inter-relations of contentious, electoral, institutional, judicial, and private politics that surround conflicts and interactions, offering a new theoretical framework of “investment politics” that can be applied generally by scholars and students of social movements, environmental studies, and political economy, and even more broadly in Social Scientific and Environmental Policy research. By drawing on a detailed field research and other sources, this book explains precisely which resistance strategies are able to influence both political and economic outcomes. Kröger expands the focus of traditionally Latin American extractivism research to other contexts such as India and the growing extractivist movement in the Global North. In addition, as the book is a multi-sited political ethnography, it will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, geographers, and others using field research among other methods to understand globalization and global political interactions. It is the most comprehensive book on the political economy and ecology of iron ore and steel. This is astonishing, given the fact that iron ore is the second-most important commodity in the world after oil.

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“…Heading the list is the extractive industries, which, as Bridge (: 389) pointed out a decade ago, ‘have not been central to the Global Commodity Chain (GCC), Global Value Chain (GVC) or Global Production Network (GPN) intellectual projects’. In fact, since Bridge's () comprehensive analysis of the global oil economy, only a small collection of GPN studies on extractives — notably, Dicken's () description of the oil and copper sectors, Radhuber's () conceptualization of flows in mining and hydrocarbon extraction, and dos Santos and Milanez's () very informative analysis of iron ore production in Brazil — have emerged. This is surprising, given the highly internationalized state of mining, and oil and gas production and their networks, which make them ideal cases for investigation.…”

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Mapping Small‐scale Mineral Production Networks: The Case of Alluvial Diamonds in Ghana

McQuilken¹,

Hilson²

2018

Development and Change

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In recent years, donors and certain governments have committed to formalizing artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM) — low‐tech, labour‐intensive mineral extraction and processing. Few, however, are able to do so effectively because of a limited knowledge of how the sector operates, who it employs and where the commodities it mines are being channelled. This article argues that a radical reconceptualization of ASM will be needed if these challenges are to be overcome. As a starting point, it calls on donors and policy makers to adopt the Global Production Network (GPN) as a ‘lens’ for analysing the sector's organizational structures. Popular in geography scholarship, the GPN, though rarely used to study the intricacies of largely informal sectors such as ASM, could prove valuable here, aiding with the mapping of key production processes. In this article, the GPN is applied to Ghana's artisanal diamond mining sector, yielding valuable insights into its organization, the roles played by the different individuals who populate it, and the nature of the relationships between these individuals. Such information is key to designing more robust formalization and support strategies for ASM in Ghana; more generally, the exercise provides important lessons for other governments working to achieve similar goals.

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The Global Production Network for iron ore: materiality, corporate strategies, and social contestation in Brazil

Cited by 23 publications

References 27 publications

Proteomic Profiling and Rhizosphere-Associated Microbial Communities Reveal Adaptive Mechanisms of Dioclea apurensis Kunth in Eastern Amazon’s Rehabilitating Minelands

Proteomic Profiling and Rhizosphere-Associated Microbial Communities Reveal Adaptive Mechanisms of Dioclea apurensis Kunth in Eastern Amazon’s Rehabilitating Minelands

Iron Will

Mapping Small‐scale Mineral Production Networks: The Case of Alluvial Diamonds in Ghana

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