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State capture in the militarized fight against illegal small-scale goldmining in Ghana

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	State capture in the militarized fight against illegal small-scale goldmining in Ghanaby Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno, Maxwell Akansina Aziabah.
Author:	Ayelazuno, Jasper.
other author:	Aziabah, Maxwell A.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	l, 160 p. :ill. (chiefly color), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Gold mines and miningLaw and legislationGhana.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82673-3
ISBN:	9783031826733$q(electronic bk.)

State capture in the militarized fight against illegal small-scale goldmining in Ghana
Ayelazuno, Jasper.

State capture in the militarized fight against illegal small-scale goldmining in Ghana[electronic resource] /by Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno, Maxwell Akansina Aziabah. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - l, 160 p. :ill. (chiefly color), digital ;24 cm.

Introduction- Ghana's ASGM Industry And The Intractable Problem Of "Galamsey" -- Chapter One- The Evolution Of ASGM And Its Negative Ecological And Socioeconomic Effects -- Chapter Two- The Paradox Of Galamsey: Comprehensively Regulated, Yet Characterized By Chaos And Criminality -- Chapter Three- State-Centric Theories Of The Galamsey Menace -- Chapter Four- State Capture And Illegal Artisanal And Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) -- Chapter Five- Militarized Fights Against Galamsey, 2017-2022 -- Chapter Six- State Capture In The Militarized Fights Against Galamsey, 2017-2022 -- Conclusion: Theoretical And Political Praxis.

"The book is an invaluable source of information for both scholars and environmental activists concerned with the environmental and human-related dimensions of informal ASM in sub-Saharan Africa, and how the sector's "illegality" is portrayed more generally." Gavin Hilson, Professor and Chair of Sustainability in Business, University of Surrey, UK "This book provides a much-needed social justice perspective on artisanal and small-scale gold mining." Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, Senior Lecturer, International Development, King's College, London, UK This book addresses one of the most vexed questions about governance and politics in natural resources-rich, albeit poor, countries across the world. Why have most states in natural resources-rich developing countries failed to regulate their artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) industries? This failure is both intellectually and politically puzzling, because these same states demonstrate capability in different functions and regulation of other sectors of the economy. Ghana is a quintessential example of this puzzle. Despite its legendary reputation as a relatively well-governed, peaceful, and democratic country, its ASM sector is characterized predominantly by informality, criminality, and horrendous environmental and human-development effects, which include the ferocious denuding of the country's vegetation cover, toxic pollution of water bodies, and serious health and safety hazards inflicted on the rural populace in mining areas. This book argues that the criminal, chaotic, and ruinous Ghanaian ASM sector - the galamsey menace - is caused by state capture. The Ghanaian state has been captured by the mining power-elites, something that allows them to undertake criminal and destructive mining with impunity. Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno is Associate Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, University for Development Studies (UDS), Ghana. Maxwell Akansina Aziabah is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Community Development, Faculty of Planning and Land Management, SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana.

ISBN: 9783031826733$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-82673-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1002075
Gold mines and mining
--Law and legislation--Ghana.

LC Class. No.: HD9536.G4

Dewey Class. No.: 338.274109667

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