Principal Investigator: Katy Jane Gardner. Lead Organisation: University of Sussex
In-migrant workers in Bibiyana
Discordant Development: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh
What happens when a vast multinational mining company operates a gas plant situated close to four densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh? How does its presence contribute to local processes of ‘development’? And what do corporate claims of ‘community engagement’ involve? Drawing from author Katy Gardner’s longstanding relationship with the area, Discordant Development reveals the complex and contradictory ways that local people attempt to connect to, and are disconnected by, foreign capital.
The oil company : partnership and the moralities of giving and receiving : corporate community engagement comes to Bangladesh
Elusive Partnerships: Gas extraction and CSR in Bangladesh
The rate of sectoral transformation from rural agrarian to urbanised mining economies requires time for policymakers to appreciate the developmental processes underway. This study focuses on economic, social and cultural changes associated with rapid and/or erratic rates of urban growth by mining expansion in Angola, Ghana and Tanzania.
Prostitution or partnership? Wifestyles in Tanzanian artisanal gold-mining settlements
A tale of two cities: urban transformation in gold-centred Butembo and diamond-rich Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mining and social transformation in Africa: Mineralizing and democratizing trends in artisanal production
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