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Case Study: Guinea

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Bauxite Mining in Africa

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This chapter focuses on four company towns in Guinea, namely Fria, Sangaredi, Kamsar, and Débélé near Kindia. During five-month field research, the author lived with workers’ families in these towns and conducted over 150 semi-structured interviews. The chapter provides detailed accounts of working and living conditions in these towns and analyses the consequences of mining for political participation. Fria and Débélé belong to the Russian aluminum company Rusal. The mine and the refinery of Fria were closed in 2012 due to a conflict between Rusal and the local trade unions. Sangaredi and Kamsar belong to the Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG), a joint venture of the Guinean state, Rio Tinto (UK/Australia), Alcoa (US), and Dadco (Switzerland).

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Knierzinger, J. (2018). Case Study: Guinea. In: Bauxite Mining in Africa . International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52706-2_3

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