Industrial mining is currently one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy, particularly in the Global … South. The present mining boom is, however, accompanied by numerous conflicts: conflicts over labour relations, over … ecological systems, and over the distribution of profits and tax revenues. In this paper, a typology of mining conflicts is …

' framing strategies in conflicts over large-scale mining and agro-industrial projects. Discursive opportunity structures (DOS … discursive structures. Empirically, the study compares conflicts over gold mining and agro-industry in Senegal. Some elements of …Konflikte um großflächige Landtransformationen zugunsten von Bergbau und Agrarindustrie haben in den letzten Jahren …

protest, and the consequences of political distrust for the stability of democracy. Do these protests represent a revolt of … the distrustful which intensifies the frequently invoked crisis of democracy? Our study answers this question by focusing … trust in the core institutions of representative democracy in Germany and that political distrust increases the readiness …

social conflict in rural areas and ownership of mines. This result suggests that the social conflict around mining projects …