Publications

We are thrilled to share the film 'One gram of gold', published in the Journal of Anthropological Films. The film is a collaborative film project, created by Anna Frohn Pedersen, postdoc at the Chair, together with Patric Jude Mkai, Robert Mwenda and Raphael Msuya. The film is open access and can...

We are happy to share a new publication by Anna Frohn Pedersen. The paper is titled ‘Gold and geo-uncertainty in the making: The introduction of cyanide in Tanzania’s artisanal and small-scale mining sector’, and published in Geoforum. It is open access and can be found here: https://www.scienced...

In collaboration with the NGO Fern, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor and Maria-Therese Gustafsson (Univ. Stockholm), have supported the creation of a Forest and Rights Observatory, which aims to collect and visualize data on human rights violations in Brazil, with a focus on land tenure rights and land conflicts. The report is available here: https://www.fern.org/fileadmin/uploads/fern/Documents/2024/Fern_Creating_a_forest_and_rights_observatory_a_Brazilian_case_study.pdf

We are pleased to share this new piece of work by Mairon Bastos Lima (Stockholm Environment Institute) and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor on supply chain divergence, that is, how exporters arrange themselves to 'divide and conquer' and, thus, skirt around human rights and environmental due diligence regul...