Cleaning mineral supply chains? Political economies of exploitation and hidden costs of technical fixes
| Autor: | Samuel J. Spiegel, Philippe Le Billon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative formalization Sociology and Political Science Traceability Natural resource economics Corruption Transparency (market) media_common.quotation_subject Mercury pollution Supply chain 050601 international relations Minamata Convention on Mercury extractive industries Politics 050602 political science & public administration conflict minerals Supply chains media_common transparency 05 social sciences Kimberley Process Certification Scheme 0506 political science traceability Political Science and International Relations Business global production networks |
| Zdroj: | Le Billon, P & Spiegel, S 2021, ' Cleaning mineral supply chains? Political economies of exploitation and hidden costs of technical fixes ', Review of International Political Economy . https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2021.1899959 |
| ISSN: | 1466-4526 0969-2290 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09692290.2021.1899959 |
| Popis: | This article examines hidden costs of three prominent mineral supply chain ‘solutions’ that respectively aim to create ‘conflict-free’ minerals, curtail corruption, and reduce mercury pollution. Our analysis underscores the heterogeneous ways in which global capitalism shapes regulatory injustices spanning multiple scales, illustrating how ‘clean’ mineral supply chain schemes can hide inequitable territorial and economic regimes of accumulation and labour exploitation resulting in social harms for artisanal and small-scale mining communities, negative environmental impacts, and the reproduction of extractive political economies dominated by large corporations. We argue for increased critical attention to how mineral supply chain schemes narrowly circumscribe spaces for pursuing counter-hegemonic ‘transformation’. |
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