TY - JOUR
T1 - Gendered and embodied legacies
T2 - Mercury's afterlife in West Lombok, Indonesia
AU - Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala
AU - Amor, Balada
AU - Perks, Rachel Bernice
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - This paper introduces a gender angle to the growing body of literature on the legacies of mining. It shows that gender-selective roles in informal artisanal and small-scale mining expose women's bodies to the worst health effects. These are then transmitted generationally to the biological function of child-bearing. Women's invisible—and often unpaid labors—relegate them to the periphery of informal artisanal and small-scale gold mining, strip them of their agency, and burden them with the nastiest of legacy effects, that of generational harm to unborn babies and fetuses, who suffer physical and mental deformities and disabilities. To show how mining legacies are gendered and embodied, this paper presents a case of a gold mining site in West Lombok, Indonesia, considered one of the mercury “hot spots” of the world. The paper contributes to the literature on mining legacies by pointing out the gender-selective and embodied nature of mining legacies.
AB - This paper introduces a gender angle to the growing body of literature on the legacies of mining. It shows that gender-selective roles in informal artisanal and small-scale mining expose women's bodies to the worst health effects. These are then transmitted generationally to the biological function of child-bearing. Women's invisible—and often unpaid labors—relegate them to the periphery of informal artisanal and small-scale gold mining, strip them of their agency, and burden them with the nastiest of legacy effects, that of generational harm to unborn babies and fetuses, who suffer physical and mental deformities and disabilities. To show how mining legacies are gendered and embodied, this paper presents a case of a gold mining site in West Lombok, Indonesia, considered one of the mercury “hot spots” of the world. The paper contributes to the literature on mining legacies by pointing out the gender-selective and embodied nature of mining legacies.
KW - Artisanal and small-scale gold mining
KW - Gender
KW - Indonesia
KW - Mining, mercury
KW - Women
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U2 - 10.1016/j.exis.2021.100960
DO - 10.1016/j.exis.2021.100960
M3 - Article
SN - 2214-790X
VL - 8
JO - Extractive Industries and Society
JF - Extractive Industries and Society
IS - 3
M1 - 100960
ER -