Mining Networks In The Making: River Sand And Stone Mining In South Sulawesi, Indonesia

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dc.contributor.advisorVandergeest, Peter
dc.contributor.authorMedina De Loera, Wendy Alejandra
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T10:55:34Z
dc.date.available2025-04-10T10:55:34Z
dc.date.copyright2025-01-09
dc.date.issued2025-04-10
dc.date.updated2025-04-10T10:55:34Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the factors and processes that have shaped sand and stone mining activities in the Jeneberang river, in South Sulawesi, Indonesia from the 1970s to 2022. My focus is the making of “mining networks” which, following Actor Network Theory, I frame as socio-material associations/processes that take provisional forms. Like other social scientific research on sand mining, I consider various political, economic and sociocultural aspects that shape who participates in mining, how and why. Additionally, I examine the material dimensions of both the geographical area that I study and the mined river materials to provide a spatially grounded analysis of the regional political economy of sand and stone mining in the Jeneberang river. I also analyze the actions that local people undertake to shape how mining happens so that they gain some benefits. Thus, this dissertation is grounded in terms of sociocultural dynamics and political economic processes but it is also place-based in terms of material features and changes. My research questions query how material and human factors shape mining networks and with what implications for local people and local mining businesses. To account for the agency of the material and people in shaping socio-material and political economic outcomes, I draw on a materiality approach and the moral economy framework. I combine insights from recent social scientific research on sand mining, critical resource geography’s focus on materiality, political ecology’s ideas on the relationship between materiality and resource access, political economy of mining’s focus on social mobilization and resistance processes, and the moral economy framework. I argue that material elements —including the river, water, sand, stones, topography— and human elements —such as the actions of local people— actively participate in a continuous shaping of mining networks. I also put forward the idea that mining networks can be better understood as “in the making” rather than as end products. The dissertation contributes to the sand mining literature which has generally approached the material aspects of mining settings as the contexts within which social phenomena unfold and has yet to further explore the actions of local people in shaping how mining happens.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42857
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subject.keywordsCritical human geography
dc.subject.keywordsCritical resource geography
dc.subject.keywordsEconomic geography
dc.subject.keywordsMateriality
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical ecology
dc.subject.keywordsActor network theory
dc.subject.keywordsRooted networks
dc.subject.keywordsMoral economy
dc.subject.keywordsHydroextractivism
dc.subject.keywordsExtractivism
dc.subject.keywordsSand mining
dc.subject.keywordsExtraction
dc.subject.keywordsSediments
dc.subject.keywordsAggregates
dc.subject.keywordsSoutheast Asia
dc.subject.keywordsIndonesia
dc.subject.keywordsSulawesi
dc.subject.keywordsJeneberang River
dc.subject.keywordsGowa
dc.subject.keywordsParangloe
dc.titleMining Networks In The Making: River Sand And Stone Mining In South Sulawesi, Indonesia
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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