Code
01D07212
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth
- Other economics and business
- Anthropology
- Citizenship, immigration and political inequality
- International and comparative politics
- Multilevel governance
- National politics
- Political behaviour
- Political organisations and institutions
- Political theory and methodology
- Public administration
- Other political science
Keywords
post-conflict
artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)
political structures
informal networks
Project description
The proposed research project will focus on the artisanal and small-scale extraction of gold and diamonds in Liberia, and use this as a lense to study informal networks and power structures in post-conflict African countries. Utilizing ethnographic research methods, it seeks to contribute to the debate on governance conditions in weak and post-conflict states, with an emphasis on resource-rich contexts.