%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Knierzinger, Johannes
%A Sopelle, I. T. I.
%T Mine closure from below : transformative movements in two shrinking West African mining towns
%D 2019
%L fdi:010075115
%G ENG
%J Extractive Industries and Society : an International Journal
%@ 2214-790X
%K Mine closure ; Company towns ; Right to the city ; Post-extractivism ; Shrinking cities ; Social movements ; Ghana ; Guinea ; Corporate social responsibility ; Mining towns
%K GHANA ; GUINEE ; FRIA ; OBUAS
%M ISI:000456874400018
%N 1
%P 145-153
%R 10.1016/j.exis.2018.08.010
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010075115
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2019/02/010075115.pdf
%V 6
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X There is broad consensus about the fact that many negative consequences of mine closure can only be avoided by differently planning and constructing mining towns from the start. This involves the establishment of closure funds, the stimulation of diversification as well as infrastructural considerations. However, these challenges are presented as technical problems that can only be solved with the intervention of experts without considering already-existing propositions and practices of the population itself, and without referring to the global politico-economic context. We propose to bridge this gap by comparing mine closures in Fria in Guinea and Obuasi in Ghana, two large and comparatively old mining towns, from the point of view of discussions about the 'right to the city'.
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