Gender and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Central and East Africa: Barriers and Benefits
This paperexamines: the structural gender inequalities that impact on access to resources and relationships; gendered social and political institutions that structure ASM livelihoods; and gendered meaning systems, the discourses, terms, and metaphors that structure how mining and mining activities, and the women and men whose lives are enmeshed in those activities, are made knowable.
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- Author(s)
- Doris Buss, Blair Rutherford, Jennifer Hinton and Jennifer Stewart; Joanne Lebert and Gise Eva C(Partnership Africa Canada); Abby Sebina-Zziwa, Richard Kibombo and Frederick Kisekka (Development Re
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Associated Partners
- IMPACT
- Language
- English
- Publishing Institution Webpage
- https://grow.research.mcgill.ca/
- Data Source Classification
- Academic Study
- Research Type
- Primary
- Research Methodology
- Primary - INTERVIEW, Primary - OBSERVATION, Primary - SURVEY
- Thematic Tags
- Political, Formalization, Economic, Income, Social, Gender, Human Rights, Livelihoods, Legal, Laws and Regulations
- Minerals
- Gold
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Country
- Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda
- Last Updated
- May 22, 2024