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Gender and Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Central and East Africa: Barriers and Benefits

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This paper examines: the structural gender inequalities that impact on access to resources and relationships; gendered social and political institutions that structure ASM livelihoods; and gendered “meaning systems,” the discourses, terms, and metaphors that structure how mining and mining activities, and the women and men whose lives are enmeshed in those activities, are made knowable.

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  • Doris Buss, Blair Rutherford, Jennifer Hinton and Jennifer Stewart (Carleton University);,
  • Joanne Lebert and Gisèle Eva Côté (Partnership Africa Canada);,
  • Abby Sebina-Zziwa, Richard Kibombo and Frederick Kisekka (Development Research and Policy Analysis Center),
  • - Institute for the Study of International Development

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