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  BRIAN IKAIKA KLEIN

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

(2025). "The Boom-and-Bust Life: Cultivating Belonging on Madagascar's Extractive Frontier." Politique Africaine, 
175-176(3-4), 83-108.

(2024). "Dina, domination, and resistance: Indigenous institutions, local politics, and resource governance in Madagascar." The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(1), 81-110.
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(2024). "The rise of flexible extraction: Boom-chasing and subject-making in northern Madagascar." Geoforum. 148, 103593.

(2023). "(Re)Interpreting corruption in local environments: Disputed definitions, contested conservation, and power plays in Northern Madagascar." Political Geography, 107, 102973. 

(2022). "Mineral commons: Collective claims to territory in the goldfields of Madagascar." Political Geography, 99, 102783.

(2022). “Local institutions and artisanal mining: Governance forms in the goldfields of Madagascar.” Journal of Rural Studies, 92, 269-283.

Book Chapters

(forthcoming). "Speculation and Flexible Extraction in Northern Madagascar: A View of Global Challenges from Below." In D. Malito and E. Fanoulis (Eds.), Decentering Global Challenges in International Relations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Beyond the West​. Routledge.

(2020). “Madagascar: Emergence and Persistence on the Hundred-Year Frontier.” In B. Verbrugge and S. Geenen (Eds.), Global Gold Production Touching Ground: Expansion, Informalization, and Technological Innovation. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Book Reviews

(2024). "
Debating mining - James H. Smith, The Eyes of the World: Mining in the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo." Africa, 94(3), 475-477.

Academic Magazine Articles

(2021). “How COVID Is Reconfiguring Labor in Extractive Industries.” Edge Effects. 

Book Manuscript (in progress)

Everyday Extraction: Autonomy and Accumulation in the Mines of Madagascar

Working Papers

“Expectations of Modern Infrastructure: Chinese Investments, Paved Roads, and Golden Ambitions in Northern Madagascar”

“Chimeric Institutions and Local Environmental Governance: The Past and Present Lives of Malagasy Dina.”

“Shaded Governance: Fragmented Authority in Madagascar’s Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector.”

Policy Publications (selected)

(2023). “Community based natural resource management as a good governance and anti-corruption method: Lessons from Madagascar.” U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center.

(2021, February). “Enrolling the Local: Community-Based Anti-Corruption Efforts and Institutional Capture.” TNRC Topic Brief. 
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