Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 33 No. 110 ROAPE Conference

Abstract of Briefing

Title:	ROAPE Conference
Location:	Vol.33 No.110 (December 2006), p772

Leeds University Centre for African Studies and Review of African Political Economy: The State, Mining & Development in Africa (13-14 September 2007) This conference brings together pressure groups and academics to explore three key themes: what lessons have been learnt from the resource curse days of the 70s, 80s and 90s; what opportunities for resource led growth have emerged in the 21st century; and what resistance exists within the continent to the continued politics of dispossession and primitive accumulation that has characterised much resource extraction? The focus of the meeting will be analysis of case studies from Ghana, Sudan, Zambia and South Africa. This will not exclude other country cases or comparative contributions. More detailed issues relate to what opportunities exist for the state in Africa to benefit from the promotion of mining and resource led development? Has Africa's incorporation into the world economy created conditions within which African states can benefit or not from increased interest by MNCs in the continents resources? To what extent are local dominant classes and political elites in Africa continuing to benefit from resource led growth while labouring classes of peasants and workers remain or become poorer from state involvement with mining companies? What resistance has there been in Africa to the new rush for the continent's resources? Here focus can lie with organised labour, trade unions and political parties and it can also lie with the need to explore micro, village and household consequences for communities that border, for example, open cast mining. To what extent is small-scale or artisanal mining a competitor with large-scale national or international mining operations? Analysis here may focus too on the role of women-headed households. This remains a still under-researched yet increasingly evident phenomenon, especially where mining is a dominant feature of employment as men migrate to work and women remain in rural areas sustaining their families and communities. Abstracts by 31 January 2007 to Saeed Talajooy: africanstudies@leeds.ac.uk

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