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Prof. Dr. Eleanor Fisher (Project Lead)
“Focusing on artisanal and small-scale gold mining challenges how we conceptualize transformations to sustainability”
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Dr. Sabine Luning
“Collaborating closely with miners within new ways of visualizing the in-depth geopolitics of mining helps us to understand their sustainability priorities”
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Prof. Dr. Wayne Modest
“I think historical guilt is productive as a way of activating the possibility of creating other futures”
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Prof. Dr. Marjo de Theije
“Gold digger culture provides fascinating insight into transformations to sustainability”
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Prof. Dr. Giorgio de Tomi
“I believe integrated regional development will nurture sustainability transformations in small-scale gold mining”
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Prof. Dr. Lucia da Costa Ferreira
“Situating mining within wider sociologies of sustainable development”
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Dr. Robert Pijpers
“Understanding miners´ imaginations of sustainable futures is critical for developing a better understanding of sustainability in ASGM.”
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Dr. Ronald Twongyirwe
“Data from remote sensing provides a different optic for exploring sustainability in gold mining”
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Prof. Dr. Michael Schnegg
"Gold matters because it transforms lands- and seascapes."
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Mrs Margaret Tuhumwire
“Changing perceptions of gold miners in sustainable development”
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Mr Francis Nii Obodai Provencal
“Through photography I visualize the art of mining life as I experience it”
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Mr Luigi Arnaldi di Balme
"Understanding land tenure, access arrangements, and competing resource claims is integral to sustainability considerations for small-scale gold mining"
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Ms Alizeta Ouedraogo
"Women's knowledge and practices in artisanal gold mining reveals the need for multi-actor understandings of sustainability"
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Dr. Cristiano Lanzano
"I will focus on the transformations in technologies and work relations to investigate local visions of sustainability that emerge in artisanal gold mining areas."
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Ms Esther van de Camp
“We need to understand the deep diversity in ASGM – subterranean differences and contrasts across sites”
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Dr. Luciana Massaro
"Understanding how different social actors interact and overlap in the Brazilian Amazon helps lead to sustainable futures for ASGM" .
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Prof. Dr. Peter Pels
“I am fascinated by the task of exploring emerging futures in artisanal gold mining”
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Mr Christophe Sawadogo
“Today is created tomorrow.”
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Ms Januária Pereira Mello
“Land governance and land use provide fundamental knowledge for better environmental management to contribute to sustainable transformation of ASGM”
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Mr Carlos Henrique Xavier Araujo
"Transformation to sustainability of ASGM activities should result in mitigation of environmental impacts and improving in mine safety and health conditions"
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Dr. Jorge Calvimontes
"Diverse actors with different objectives and from different perspectives negotiate towards sustainability"
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Ms Raissa Resende de Morais
"A multi-stakeholders view of artisanal mining for transformations to sustainability"
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Dr. Lorenzo D'Angelo
"Fluid matter, substance and relation, that is gold"