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  • 1. Arnaldi di Balme, Luigi
    et al.
    Lanzano, Cristiano
    Gouverner l'éphémère: Etude sur l’organisation technique et politique de deux sites d’orpaillage (Bantara et Gombélèdougou, Burkina Faso)2014Report (Other academic)
  • 2.
    Cissé, Daouda
    The Nordic Africa Institute, African International Links.
    Globalisation and sustainable Africa-China trade: what role play the African regional organisations?2015Report (Other academic)
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  • 3.
    Cornelissen, Scarlett
    et al.
    Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
    Cheru, FantuThe Nordic Africa Institute, Globalization, Trade and Regional Integration.Shaw, Timothy M.Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
    Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century2012Collection (editor) (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    At the start of the second decade of the 21st Century, Africa is viewed in a much more positive light by analysts, investors, observers and policymakers. China’s recent closer involvement with the continent has set the tone for new forms of engagement between Africa and the rest of the world. The authors discuss the implications for Africa’s future trajectories and how to understand the continent’s position in the international system. Furthermore, they demonstrate how the study of shifts in Africa’s international relations can help explain broader dynamics and the changing foundations of world order.

  • 4.
    Hellsten, Sirkku
    et al.
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    Palmer, Eric
    Editorial2016In: Journal of Global Ethics, ISSN 1744-9626, E-ISSN 1744-9634, Vol. 12, no 2, p. 123-126Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 5.
    Lanzano, Cristiano
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    Guinea Conakry and Burkina Faso: Innovations at the Periphery2020In: Global Gold Production Touching Ground: Expansion, Informalization, and Technological Innovation / [ed] Boris Verbrugge and Sara Geenen, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. 245-262Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 6.
    Lanzano, Cristiano
    et al.
    The Nordic Africa Institute, Research Unit.
    Arnaldi di Balme, Luigi
    IFSRA, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
    Who owns the mud?: Valuable leftovers, sociotechnical innovation and changing relations of production in artisanal gold mining (Burkina Faso)2021In: Journal of Agrarian Change, ISSN 1471-0358, E-ISSN 1471-0366, Vol. 21, no 3, p. 433-458Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The expansion of artisanal gold mining has contributed to agrarian change in most of the global South—including West Africa: the sector offers interesting examples of technological and socio‐economic change, reflecting broader dynamics in the political economy of mining. In this article, we rely on our multisited ethnography to show how innovations in gold processing—particularly, the shift from mercury‐based to cyanide‐based techniques—reconfigured power relations and organizational patterns in the artisanal mining sector in Burkina Faso. We show that, in the context of structural transformations and pressure from powerful actors, the mechanisms of value creation, the definition of property rights and the relations of production remained open for negotiation and redefinition. Bringing attention to new scenarios opened by the shift to cyanide for processing gold—a transformative factor in many gold mining areas across the world—our analysis contributes to a broader reflection on the nexus between the trajectories of sociotechnical innovation and the ongoing power struggles in the informal economies of resource extraction.

  • 7.
    Madsen, Diana H.
    FREIA – Feminist Research Center in Aalborg, Aalborg University, Denmark.
    Gender Mainstreaming in the Danish Development Agency (Danida) - A Panecea for Development?2016Report (Other academic)
  • 8.
    Madsen, Diana Højlund
    FREIA – Feminist Research Center in Aalborg, Aalborg University, Denmark.
    Valg i Ghana: Kvinders magre repræsentation i politik2016In: Globalnyt, no 2016-12-07Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 9.
    Verbrugge, Boris
    et al.
    HIVA-KU Leuven, Belgium.
    Lanzano, Cristiano
    The Nordic Africa Institute.
    Libassi, Matthew
    Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States.
    The cyanide revolution: Efficiency gains and exclusion in artisanal- and small-scale gold mining2021In: Geoforum, ISSN 0016-7185, E-ISSN 1872-9398, Vol. 126, p. 267-276Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Since its advent at the end of the nineteenth century, cyanide processing facilitated the intensification and global expansion of industrial gold mining. Today, there are important indications that artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is on the verge of a similar cyanide revolution: while ASGM is typically associated with mercury-based processing, mercury amalgamation is increasingly replaced with, or complemented by, cyanidation. Relying on evidence from the Philippines, Indonesia, and Burkina Faso, we demonstrate how this transition is having a deeply transformative impact on ASGM communities. On the one hand, cyanidation produces clear efficiency gains. Together with rising gold prices, it is fueling a dramatic expansion of ASGM by enabling the profitable extraction of lower-grade gold deposits. On the other hand, it contributes to the emergence of new and often highly unequal labor and revenue-sharing arrangements. More broadly, these findings demonstrate the highly uneven impact of socio-technical transformations. Consequently, the growing number of efforts to intervene in the technological make-up of ASGM, usually in the name of efficiency and sustainability, should be wary of having unintended consequences.

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