Indigenous Peoples and Mining: A Global Perspective

by Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh

Indigenous peoples have occupied their territories for thousands of years, territories that are increasingly being mined by an industry applying the most modern extractive, marketing, and transport technologies on a scale that can be 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192894560
• ISBN13: 9780192894564
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"