Canadian Mining in Burkina Faso: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Delegitimation as Structural Displacement
Part Two: Dispossession Abroad
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In Chapter 10, authors W.R. Nadège Compaoré and Tongnoma Zongo take a critical look at the Canadian mining industry in Burkina Faso. The chapter explores topics including Canadian mining interests on the continent with a particular focus on gold in Burkina Faso, Canada’s relationship with the mining companies iamgold and Essakane, and the Burkinabè government, the term “displaced” versus “resettlement,” and the power dynamics between the Burkinabè and Canadian government.
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Contributors
W.R Nadège Compaoré
Nadège Compaoré is an assistant professor of international relations at the University of Toronto. Prior to this, she was a Provost postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, a postdoctoral fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo, a research analyst at the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research and a sshrc postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social Science at York University. Her work is informed by a critical approach to international relations and lies at the intersection of natural resource governance and global environmental politics, with an empirical focus on African dynamics within the international system.
Tongnoma Zongo
Tongnoma Zongo is a geographer with a joint PhD from the University of Paris Sorbonne Pantheon (France) and the University Joseph Ki Zerbo (Burkina Faso), with expertise in the political geography of mineral resources. His research focuses on gold and territorial dynamics in Burkina Faso. In December 2014, Zongo became a research associate at the National Centre for Scientific and Technological Research and is also a research associate at the Institute des sciences des sociétés (inss), both in Burkina Faso.
