Our Resisting Mining Book Club puts authors, academics, and activists in conversation with friends and supporters of London Mining Network. At each event, we bring you a presentation and discussion with the author (or editor) of a different book that deals with mining, community resistance, and/or related issues. Every event is free (although we always welcome donations), online, and open to all. Below, you can see the list of past book club events and watch the recordings.
We provide everyone who registers with extracts to read or PDF copies of the book when possible.
2025 Book Club Series
 | Megan Black discusses her book The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (Harvard University Press, 2018). Watch the recording here |
 | Myles Lennon discusses his book Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2025). Watch the recording here |
 | Adam Hanieh presents his new book Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso Books, 2024). Watch the recording here |
 | Just Transformations: Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Futures (Pluto Press, 2023), Iokiñe Rodriguez introducing a co-edited collection. Watch the recording here |
 | Stefania Barca introducing her book Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change (Pluto Books, 2024). Watch the recording here |
 | Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places (Greystone Books, 2023), Christopher Pollon. Watch the recording here |
2024 Book Club Series
 | Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region (Pluto Books, 2024), Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell Recording available here |
 | The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics, Eusi Kwayana Wednesday 14 March 18:00 – 20:00 Recording available here |
 | The Burning Forest, Nandini Sundar Wednesday 17 January 18:00 – 20:00 Recording available here |
2023 Book Club Series
| Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining, Orrin Pilkey, Nelson Rangel-Buitrago, Norma Longo and Hannah Smith Wednesday 20 September 18:00 – 20:00 Recording available here |  |
| The Bermuda Connection: Profit shifting, inequality and unaffordability at Lonmin 1999-2012, Dick Forslund Wednesday 23 August 18:00 – 20:00 Recording available here |  |
| The Heart of Our Earth, Tom Gatehouse Wednesday 19 July 18:00 – 20:00 Recording available here |  |
| Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa, Dr Andy Higginbottom Wednesday 28 June 18:00 – 20:00 Recording available here |  |
| Black Gold & the Legacy of Ruth First, Asanda Benya Wednesday 17 May 18:00 – 20:00 Recording available here |  |
| Conflict Minerals, Inc: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo, Christoph Vogel Wednesday 8 March 18:00 – 20:00 Recording available here |  |
| The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Macarena Gómez-Barris Wednesday 18 January 18:00 – 20:00 Recording available here |  |
2022 Book Club Series
 | Planetary Mine, Martín Arboleda Wednesday 12 January 2022, 18:00-20:00 Recording available here |
 | Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes, Julie Michelle Klinger Thursday 17 March 18:00 – 20:00 Recording available here |
 | Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide, Damien Short Wednesday 11 May 18:00 – 20:00 Recording available here |
 | Enforcing Ecocide: Power, Policing & Planetary Militarization, Alexander Dunlap and Andrea Brock Wednesday 30 November, 18:00-20:00 Recording available here |
2021 Book Club Series
| Resource Radicals: from petro nationalism to post extractivism in Ecuador Thea Riofancos Wednesday 15 March, 18:00-20:00 Recording available here |  |
| Unearthing Justice: how to protect your community from the mining industry Joan Kuyek 12 May, 18:00-20:00 Recording available here |  |
| Droplet and Wagtail’s Tailings Tale Wednesday 7 July, 18:00-20:00 Recording available here |  |