At a time of energy and digital "transitions" and health and geopolitical crises, access to mineral raw materials is becoming a crucial issue, forcing us to question the extractive industry.

How can we live in mining areas and cope with the consequences of extraction? Can mining activities coexist with farming, tourism and forestry? What kind of social life do mining workers enjoy?

Some mining areas have to deal with the indelible traces of former mining activities. Others are seeing their spatial and social configurations profoundly transformed by current or anticipated mining projects.

Through examples from West Africa, Latin America, North America and France, this book shows how extractive activity "fabricates" the territory, in its geophysical, environmental and hydrological components, but also in its health, social, economic and political dimensions. It shows that contemporary debates on mining projects must be confronted with the fabric of these territories to question the role of localities in national or even global extractive policies.

Contributors to this book: Nassima Abdelghafour, Sylvia Becerra, Tessa Bonincontro, Juliette Cerceau, Liliana Doganova, Noémie Fayol, Yona Jébrak, Brice Laurent, Claude LeGouill, Pierre-Yves Le Meur, Florian Tena-Chollet and Roberta Rubino.

Juliette Cerceau et Brice Laurent (dir.), Quand la mine déborde. Enquêtes sur la fabrique des territoires extractifs, Paris, Presses des Mines, Collection Sciences sociales, 2023

Juliette Cerceau and Brice Laurent (dir.), Quand la mine déborde. Enquêtes sur la fabrique des territoires extractifs, Paris, Presses des Mines, Collection Sciences sociales, 2023