Articles’ Selection #12: spring 2022
Ancient times Ikram, S., Warner, N., Lazaridis, N., Warden, L. A., Cook, R., Boyer, C., & Bunbury, J. A “Late Antique” Mining Community in the North Kharga Oasis (Egypt). Journal of the American Research...
Ancient times Ikram, S., Warner, N., Lazaridis, N., Warden, L. A., Cook, R., Boyer, C., & Bunbury, J. A “Late Antique” Mining Community in the North Kharga Oasis (Egypt). Journal of the American Research...
LiM-WG has the pleasure to introduce you Duncan Money, historian and lecturer at Leiden University and researcher at African Studies Center. Duncan is a historian of Central and Southern Africa. He is interested in histories...
Newly released in the field of Energy History and Extractive Industry. Carbon Technocracy charts how modern states became embroiled in such projects of intensive energy extraction, driven as they were by concerns over economic...
Duncan Money, historian will present his new book ‘White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own‘ on Thursday 24 March, 15h30-17h, (UTC+1) at an online and in-person event at the...
Michael Farrenkopf, Stefan Siemer (eds.), The Material Cultures of Mining: Object History in the Fields of Knowledge, Technology, Everyday Life, and Memory, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022 Synopsis The book is a collection of essays...
The book Copper King in Central Africa. Corporate Organization, Labor Relations, and Profitability of Zambia’s Rhokana Corporation ‘ by Hyden Munene has been published. It’s a business history of the Rhokana Corporation that ran...
Just released and free access French television documentary “La grande tueuse” (the Big Killer) co-written by Marion Fontaine (Professor, Sciences Po) and Richard Berthollet (film director). This documentary is dedicated to the mobilisation of ...
2020 Allison Margaret Bigelow, Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World, UNC Press, April 2020, 376 p. Lucía Fandos Rodríguez, Hombres y mujeres de hierro. Las minas de...
In this issue a selection by geographical area: Western Africa Ofosu-Mensah, E. A. Transformation of Artisanal Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in Ghana From Pre-Colonial to the Modern Era, The Journal of African Policy Studies, vol....
Book Reviews Barragán Romano, R. Viviendo las minas. Latin American Research Review, 56(3), 2021, pp.711–719. Reflecting on methodology Emily Peirson-Webber, Mining Men: Reflections on Masculinity and Oral History during the Coronavirus Pandemic, History Workshop...
Digital Humanities and archives Money, D., “Rebalancing the Historical Narrative or Perpetuating Bias? Digitizing the Archives of the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia.”History in Africa, 2021, 1-22. Rustambayevna, T. S. Analysis of the Found New...
Archeo-anthropology Federico I. Coloca, Gabriel E.J. López, Archaeology and pre-Hispanic mining rituals in the south-central Andes (Puna of Salta, Northwestern Argentina), Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Volume 62, 2021 Archeology Meunier, E., and Luaces, M....
The purpose of WG LiM is to connect researchers interested in mining issues all over the world. Collaboration and mutual exchange are highly valued by all our members. This is why we frequently launch...
The Institute of Historical Research and University of London Press organise a online conference for the launch of Coal Country. The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland by Ewan Gibbs (University of...