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Accepted Paper:
Extractivism during crises of chain governance: The regulation of the global aluminum chain in Guinea from the 1960s until today
Johannes Knierzinger
(Universität Wien)
Paper short abstract:
The paper compares conflicting raw material policies and development strategies of the 1970s and today. It focuses on the control relations between Guinean actors and the global aluminum production network.
Paper long abstract:
The aluminum business is one of the most capital intensive and concentrated sectors and has strongly affected the development of non-industrialized countries involved in its global production network. The arrival of this industry in Africa in the 1960s and 70s can be compared in many ways to the situation today. Once a country opted for an extractivist development path, its policy options became dictated to a large extent by a highly entangled network of actors from the few globally dominant corporations, international financial institutions and the consumer countries. Guinea is a typical example for these control relations that have been seriously challenged again with the new mining boom since the turn of the millennium. It remains to be seen if the current government is capable to use this new crisis of chain governance to increase its policy space and thereby the decision space of the Guinean population.
Africa's resource blessing: pathways to autonomy in a conflicting donor world
Session 1