Reframing the debate on informal mining / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Section One: Historical antecedents and value making. Artisanal gold rush mining and frontier democracy: Juxtaposing experiences in America, Australia, Africa and Asia / Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Tanzanite: Commodity fiction or commodity nightmare? / Katherine C. Donahue
Agrarian distress and gemstone mining in India: The political economy of survival / Arnab Roy Chowdhury and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
The social ecology of artisanal mining: Between romanticisation and anathema / Saleem H. Ali
Section Two: Precarious and gendered labour. Theorising transit labour in informal mineral extraction processes / Ranabir Samaddar
A good business or a risky business: Health, safety and quality of life for women small scale miners in PNG / Danielle Lynas
Rice, sapphires and cattle: Work lives of women artisanal and small scale miners in Madagascar / Lynda Lawson
Is it possible to integrate health and safety risk management into mechanised gold processing? A methodology for artisanal and small scale mining communities in the Philippines / Gernelyn Logrosa, Maureen Hassall, David Cliff and Carmel Bofinger
Resources and resourcefulness: Gender, human rights and resilience in artisanal mining towns of eastern Congo / Rachel Perks, Jocelyn Kelly, Stacie Constantian and Phuong Pham
Section Three: Conflicts and governance. Historical trajectory of gold mining in the Nilgiri Wayanad region of India / Amalendu Jyotishi, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Sashi Sivramkrishna
Conflicts in marginal locations: Small scale gold-mining in the Amazon / Marjo de Theije and Ton Salman
Small-scale gold-mining: Opportunities and risks in post-conflict Colombia / Alexandra Urán
Muddy rivers and toxic flows: Risks and impacts of artisanal gold mining in the riverine catchments of Bombana, Southeast Sulawesi (Indonesia) / Sara Beavis and Andrew McWilliam
Artisanal and small-scale mining governance: The emerging issue of unregulated mining in Lao PDR / Daniele Moretti and Nicholas Garrett
Reassembling informal gold-mining for development and sustainability? Opportunities and limits to formalisation in India, Indonesia and Laos / Keith Barney.