Marjo de Theije (0000-0001-9382-6044)

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In my research I focus on the cultural, social, economic, and environmental aspects of small-scale gold mining in the Amazon region, especially in Brazil and the Guianas, but also in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. In Suriname and French Guiana I work with the Brazilian migrant miners and the Aluku and Ndjuka maroon population in the gold fields.

I have done policy-oriented work on middle and small scale mining (gems, gold, aggregates) in Brazil, the routes of illegally mined gold in the Guiana’s, fair mined gold in Bolivia, and environmental regulation for small scale gold mining in Suriname.

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Amsterdam, NL

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Amsterdam, NL

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Universiteit Utrecht: Utrecht, Utrecht, NL

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Swiss National Science Foundation: Bern, CH

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

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ST-ASGM: Sustainability Transformations in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining: A Multi-Actor and Trans-Regional Perspective

Small-scale gold mining and social conflict in the Amazon: Comparing states, environments, local populations and miners in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Suriname (GOMIAM)

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Beyond “green markets” and local romanticisms for a locally grounded bioeconomy in Amazonia

Gold Matters: Visualizing Mining Worlds

Insurgent infrastructures: bottom-up infrastructure-building in gold-mining regions in Colombia and Suriname

Mitchell Esajas, Jessica de Abreu, and the public recognition of the Dutch role in slavery

Balancing economic development and environmental responsibility: Perceptions from communities of garimpeiros in the Brazilian Amazon

Ouro Surpreende A Gente

Amalgamation: Social, technological, and legal entanglements in small-scale gold-mining regions in Colombia and Suriname

Gold Matters – From Africa to the Amazon

Recruitment and disengagement: two sides of the same coin or different phenomena?

Transforming matters. Sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining

A reply to Luis Angosto-Ferrández

Corporate and migrant investment in a gold-mining development corridor: The case of Suriname

Mobilidade nas fronteiras guianenses

Small-scale gold mining and the COVID-19 pandemic: Conflict and cooperation in the Brazilian Amazon

Covid-19 for garimpeiros in Brazil: vulnerability and cooperation

Brazil: Forever Informal

Gold Matters: pesquisa em mineração de ouro de pequena escala

Hunger in the land of plenty

Rubbish at the border: A minefield of conservationist politics at the Lawa River, Suriname/French Guiana

Understanding small-scale gold mining practices

Structures, actors, and interactions in the analysis of natural resource conflicts

Estudo de caso 1: Tapajós (ouro)

Estudo de caso 2: Vale do Peixoto (ouro)

Estudo de caso 3: Polo de Santa Gertrudes (Argila)

Estudo de caso 4: Vales do Mucuri e do Jequitinhonha (gemas e pedras)

Estudo de caso 5: Região Metropolitana de Recife (agregados de construção civil)

Diagnóstico Socioeconômico e Ambiental da Mineração em Pequena Escala no Brasil (MPE). Relatório 8

Diagnóstico Socioeconômico e Ambiental da Mineração em Pequena Escala no Brasil. Relatório 3.

Conflicts in marginal locations

"We are all Garimpeiros:" Settlement and Movement in Communities of the Tapajós Small-Scale Gold Mining Reserve

Analysing conflicts around small-scale gold mining in the Amazon: The contribution of a multi-temporal model

Small-scale gold mining in the Guianas. Mobility and policy across national borders

Socio-technical study of small-scale gold mining in Suriname

The limited resilience of South America's commodity boom

De duurzaamheid van de 'commodity boom' in Zuid-Amerika

Goudwinning in Suriname

Migratie in de Guyanas

Small scale mining and cross-border movements of gold from French Guiana

Small-scale gold mining in the guianas: Mobility and policy across national borders

Diagnóstico Socioeconômico e Ambiental da Mineração em Pequena Escala no Brasil (MPE)

Review of Stuart Kirsch: Mining Capitalism. The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. [Review of: S. Kirsch (2014) Mining Capitalism. The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics.]

Small-Scale Mining and the Routes Travelled by Gold that is Illegally Produced in French Guiana.

Engaging legal systems in small scale gold mining conflicts in three South American countries

Global gold connections. Ethical consumption and the beauty of bonding artisans

Small-scale gold mining and trans-frontier commerce on the Lawa River

O Garimpo de ouro na sociedade maroon contemporânea no Suriname. Dossiê Caribe

Formalized small-scale gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon: an activity surrounded by informality

Small-scale gold mining in the Amazon

Small-scale Gold Mining in the Amazon. The cases of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Suriname

Viver nas currutelas pan-amazônicas: consumo conspícuo e religião em garimpos transnacionais