"Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the processes of development and change that mark resource extraction...

1 Introduction2 Mining, gentlemanly capitalism, and the business of imperialism3 The geographies of mining finance4 The anatomy of mining and the mine exploration business5 The world of copper mines, railways and labour6 The growth of the Central African Copperbelt7 For whom the windfalls? A...

The space left for indigenous peoples' voices in Canadian and Fennoscandian mining legal frameworks : a comparative analysis / Zoé Boirin-Fargues and Sophie Thériault -- Closure and connection : a Southwest Pacific reappraisal of the mining enclave / Pierre-Yves Le Meur and Glenn Banks --...