Contaminated identities: Mercury and marginalization in Ghana’s artisanal mining sector

2007/08/30 by Petra Tschakert, Kamini Singha · 235 citations
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Citizen journalism #Criminalization #Criminology #Environmental Justice and Health Disparities #Environmental ethics #Environmental justice #Environmental planning #Geography #Gold mining #Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact #Law #Mercury (programming language) #Mining and Resource Management #Narrative #Political science #Politics #Rhetoric #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.05.002

published in Geoforum 38(6), 1304-1321 (Elsevier BV)

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