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- Title
Global Incorporation and Local Conflict: Sierra Leonean Mining Regions.
- Authors
Akiwumi, Fenda A.
- Abstract
This paper draws upon a world-system core-periphery framework to examine the nature and causes of persistent low-level conflict in Sierra Leonean mining regions. Conflict is endemic because of asymmetrical power relations between global core-state corporations and peripheral weak-state Sierra Leone, which are mirrored locally within its mining regions. Structural constraints inherent in these relationships generate and sustain socioeconomic, cultural and environmental inequities. The paper reveals the complex web of micropolitics in the mining locale core-periphery microcosm involving a weak state, exploitative corporations and oppressive traditional social hierarchies. The findings are relevant to effective policy making and conflict resolution.
- Subjects
SIERRA Leone; MINERAL industries -- Social aspects; SIERRA Leone social conditions, 1961-; DIAMOND mining; ECONOMIC globalization -- Developing countries; RUTILE mines &; mining; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
Antipode, 2012, Vol 44, Issue 3, p581
- ISSN
0066-4812
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00945.x