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Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa
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Winner, 2025 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award
Winner, 2026 Lionel Trilling Book Award, Columbia College
What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world’s richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal miners known as zama zamas venture in an illicit—often deadly—search for ore. Based on field research conducted across more than twenty-five years around these mines, Unstable Gro...
Winner, 2026 Lionel Trilling Book Award, Columbia College
What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world’s richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal miners known as zama zamas venture in an illicit—often deadly—search for ore. Based on field research conducted across more than twenty-five years around these mines, Unstable Gro...