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WILDCAT investigates small-scale gold mining in the Amazon, focusing on the informal economic activities that occur outside traditional corporate frameworks. The project aims to understand the dynamics of globalization in remote areas and the implications for resource extraction.
The proposed project will conduct an ethnographic study of small-scale gold mining in South America, otherwise known as ‘wildcat mining’, and aims to explore the interconnection between formal and informal economic spheres at the global margins.
The project will forge a concept of ‘wildcat economics’: that is, the particular form of small-scale mining that takes place in extremely remote regions of the world essentially ‘under the radar’, in this case the Amazonian rainforest.
As such, WILDCAT w…
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