Making sense of global gold mining

Abstract

In our own research, we set out to develop an explanatory framework for understanding diversity in global gold mining. This required a move away from the dualist and localist focus that characterized earlier research. The results of this exercise were recently published in the form of an edited volume, which couples an analysis of systemic trends in global gold mining to thirteen country case studies in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. In this contribution, we want to briefly elaborate on the analytical and conceptual challenges that we encountered.