difficult to comprehend. Mining reshapes landscapes, literally moving mountains and diverting rivers; the Indigenous owners of … these landscapes often believe them to have been originally shaped by ancestor beings who still reside at mining locations … expansion of mining into Indigenous territories. Contributing to such an understanding involves a task of global significance …

mining developments may be the major—and sometimes the only—contributors to regional economic development. However Indigenous … communities have gained only relatively limited long-term economic development benefits from mining activity on land that they own … value on realising particular non-economic benefits from mining agreements, there may be only limited capacity to deliver …

This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of … to mining and how this is linked to peacebuilding, with a focus on how resistance is shaped and enacted to respond to the …, sitting in the intersection between the anthropology of mining, development studies and peace and conflict studies. The author …