{"product_id":"underground-politics-gold-mining-and-state-making-in-colombia-hardcover","title":"Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Colombia - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJesse Jonkman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eUnderground Politics\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eUnderground Politics\u003c\/i\u003e unearths contentious forms of extractive organization that, while contradicting the formal regulatory framework, are nevertheless constitutive of state power.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJesse Jonkman is Assistant Professor in Organization Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52733088694579,"sku":"9781512824582","price":190.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ys92LMc_H_9781512824582.webp?v=1763917080","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/underground-politics-gold-mining-and-state-making-in-colombia-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}