Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Colombia by Jonkman, Jesse

Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Colombia

How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglectIn the Choc?...
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Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Colombia by Jonkman, Jesse

Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Colombia

$49.08

Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Colombia

$49.08
Author: Jesse Jonkman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect

In the Choc? rainforests of Colombia, local and settler miners turn to gold as a means to get by and get ahead on the margins of capitalism. They eke out livelihoods while worrying about the declining richness of subsoils, their heightened persecution by state troops, the stigmatizing language of politicians, and the extortion of paramilitaries and guerrillas. Underground Politics follows the everyday sociopolitical life of this supposedly lawless gold frontier, revealing how gold-mining communities in Choc? navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect.

Drawing on ethnographic encounters and conversations in mining regions, Jesse Jonkman traces how miners and their surrounding communities reappropriate the state's legal and bureaucratic tools for their own ends. Far from being outside of state governance, or only on the receiving end of it, mining stakeholders involve legal categories and representatives of the state in their daily organizational practices, rendering mundane and lawful a livelihood that official discourses deem destructive and illegal. In so doing, they bring about another kind of state presence in their gold frontier, through what Jonkman calls "underground politics"--the process by which those ostensibly working outside of state structures are nonetheless active participants in bottom-up state-making.

In Choc?, gold gives rise to social and ecological violence. Yet, Jonkman shows, it also ties into cultural ideals of autonomy, stories of identity and prosperity, and local political formations that simultaneously erode and confirm the authority of the state. Underground Politics unearths contentious forms of extractive organization that, while contradicting the formal regulatory framework, are nevertheless constitutive of state power.

Author: Jesse Jonkman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781512824575

About the Author
Jesse Jonkman is Assistant Professor in Organization Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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