Gender and Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining: Kenya, Mozambique and Sierra Leone (2014-2027)
Two women sieve minerals in Osiri, Kenya
Overview
Project Brief
- Gender and Artisanal Mining: Connecting Research with Extractive Sector Governance(September 2018, 2 page summary document)
Publications
- Gendering Women’s Livelihoods and Small-Scale Mining
- Gender and ASM: Implications for Formalization (Buss et al)
- Beyond the Rituals of Inclusion: The Environment for Women and Resource Governance in Africa’s Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector (Doris Buss, Blair Rutherford, Cynthia Kumah and Mary Spear, pre-published version)
- Geoforum, A ‘cartography of concern’: Place-making practices and gender in the artisanal mining sector in Africa
- (Third World Thematics) “Gendered Governance and Socio-economic Differentiation among Women Artisanal and Small-Scale Miners in Central and East Africa” (2019)
- (The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History) “Women and Mining in Africa” (2023)
- (Routledge edited book) The (In)Visibility of Women and Mining: The Gendering of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Sub-Saharan Africa (2023)
Country Specific Reports
General
AYV (African Young Voices television, http://ayvnews.com/) news clip about the “Gender and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Connecting Research with Extractive Sector Governance” workshop, Magburaka, Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone, 22 October 2018
Blog Posts
Posts by Sarah Katz-Lavigne (PhD candidate, NPSIA, Carleton)**
- Women and Artisanal Mining (Migori County, Kenya; July 2015)
- The Dynamism of ASM and Gender in Kenya: Final Reflections
Post by Ekpedeme Edem (PhD candidate, Law and Legal Studies, Carleton)***
**Thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Insight grant for supporting the research of Sarah Katz-Lavigne as part of the Statebuilding and Women’s livelihoods in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining research project
***Thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Partnership Development grant for supporting the research of Ekpedeme Edem as part of the Gender and artisanal and small-scale mining: connecting research with extractive sector governance project.