Tomas Frederiksen

An Action-Oriented Research Agenda for Forests and Just Transitions

Sandra Jazmin Barragan Contreras, Abdul‐Gafaru Abdulai, Syaharani Abdul Kadir, Carlos Valério Aguiar Gomes et autres

Forests are highly contested spaces where the rights and needs of land-connected communities are increasingly in tension with rapidly expanding decarbonisation agendas in response to climate change concerns, including those pushing for renewable energy development, mining for energy transition minerals, and carbon …

An Action-Oriented Research Agenda for Forests and Just Transitions

Sandy Nofyanza, Carlos Valério Aguiar Gomes, Israel M. Banegas González, Matilda Kabutey Ongor et autres

Forests are highly contested spaces where the rights and needs of land-connected communities are increasingly in tension with rapidly expanding decarbonisation agendas in response to climate change concerns, including those pushing for renewable energy development, mining for energy transition minerals, and carbon …

Unearthing extractive subjects: Power and subjectivity at the extractive frontier

Judith Verweijen, Matthew Himley, Tomas Frederiksen

Work in political ecology and related fields emphasizes the importance of subjectivities to understand power relations and dynamics in nature-society interactions. In practice, though, few studies provide detailed analyses of subject formation. Moreover, the role of subjectivities has remained underexplored in the …

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Subjectivity and space on extractive frontiers: Materiality, accumulation and politics

Tomas Frederiksen

This paper uses the lenses of space and subjectivity to analyse the local impacts of large-scale metals mining on three extractive frontiers across the global South. Using insights around the role of the materiality of resource extraction in politics, the spatiality of …

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Can Mining Help Deliver the SDGs: Discourses, Risks and Prospects

Tomas Frederiksen, Glenn Banks

In this paper, we explore the mining sector’s potential to contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by examining its past engagement with sustainable development. Once a pariah, the mining industry is now very active in the sustainability space and played …

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How would a mining sector that was committed to sustainable development behave: a 21st century manifesto

Tomas Frederiksen, Glenn Banks

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Mining in Africa after the supercycle: New directions and geographies

Andrew Bowman, Tomas Frederiksen, Deborah Fahy Bryceson, John Childs et autres

Abstract Mining in Africa is at a pivotal moment. For most of the period 2000 to 2012, the extractive industries were in a “supercycle” of sustained high commodity prices. Driven by resource‐intensive growth in emerging market economies, these high commodity prices were …

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COVID-19 and the case for global development

Johan A. Oldekop, Rory Horner, David Hulme, Roshan Adhikari et autres

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COVID-19 and the case for global development

Johan A. Oldekop, Rory Horner, David Hulme, Roshan Adhikari et autres

COVID-19 accentuates the case for a global, rather than an international, development paradigm. The novel disease is a prime example of a development challenge for all countries, through the failure of public health as a global public good. The COVID-19 pandemic has …

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COVID-19 and the case for global development

Johan A. Oldekop, Rory Horner, David Hulme, Roshan Adhikari et autres

COVID-19 accentuates the case for a global, rather than an international, development paradigm. The novel disease is a prime example of a development challenge for all countries, through the failure of public health as a global public good. The COVID-19 pandemic has …

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Tactics of dispossession: Access, power, and subjectivity at the extractive frontier

Tomas Frederiksen, Matthew Himley

In this article we analyse and theorise how power is exercised and subjectivities reworked to achieve and maintain socio‐political order in areas of large‐scale international extractive investment. Through a critical review of recent literature on the political ecologies of the international mining …

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Corporate social responsibility, risk and development in the mining industry

Tomas Frederiksen

In this article I examine how metals mining companies understand and act upon CSR as risk management and the consequences for community CSR projects. I begin by exploring the literature on CSR and development in the mining industry, motives for CSR engagement …

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