Resisting Mining Bookclub

Resting Mining Book Club

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 upcoming and past book club events – click the image to see more info.

In most cases, we will be able to email a PDF copy of the book to everyone who registers!

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
Book Club 23 August - Bermuda Connection
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
Black Gold
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

Between the Plough and the Pick: Informal, Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in the Contemporary World, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Wednesday 14 September, 18:00 – 20:00
Postponed
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
Recording of Resource Radicals - 15 March 2021
Unearthing Justice: how to protect your community from the mining industry
Joan Kuyek
12 May, 18:00-20:00
Recording available here
Recording of Unearthing Justice - 12 May 2021
Droplet and Wagtail’s Tailings Tale
Wednesday 7 July, 18:00-20:00
Recording available here
Recording of Tailings Tale - 7 July 2021