Gold conflict and contested conduct: Large- and small-scale mining subjectivities in Indonesia

• Published in: Geoforum Vol. 148; p. 103648
• Main Author: Libassi, Matthew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2024
• Subjects: Extractive industries; Governmentality; Indonesia; Resource conflict; Small-scale mining; Subject formation; Resource conflict; Subject formation; Governmentality; Small-scale mining; Extractive industries; Indonesia

Resource extraction shapes the people who live and work in its midst. In Pongkor, Indonesia, these transformations revolve around long-running tensions between large- and small-scale gold miners. The region is home to a state-owned industrial mine as well as thousands of unlicensed, small-scale mine...