Abstract This paper considers the apparent confluence of three policy developments: the Sustainable Development Goals, as the latest international commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment; the growing push to formalize the artisanal and small-scale mining sector; and the call to address environmental concerns of ASM through increased regulation, including formalization. Informed by feminist political economy and political ecology scholarship, we consider the kinds of gendered meanings about gold ASM (ASGM) and the environment made possible through the points where formal policy commitments to ASGM, environmental protection and women’s inclusion intersect, or fail to intersect. We explore three contexts in which environment narratives have been framed and/or mobilized: the 2014 Minamata Convention on Mercury, followed by two brief case studies examining the consequences of the enforcement of gender-blind environmental initiatives on the livelihoods of women artisanal gold miners in central Mozambique and eastern Ghana. The paper concludes with three recommendations for future work on the intersection of environmental protection programs and women’s empowerment agendas for the ASGM sector.

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超越包容的仪式：非洲手工和小规模采矿业的妇女环境和资源治理

摘要 本文考虑了三个政策发展的明显融合：可持续发展目标，作为对性别平等和妇女赋权的最新国际承诺；越来越多地推动手工和小规模采矿业正规化；并呼吁通过加强监管（包括正规化）来解决 ASM 的环境问题。受女权主义政治经济学和政治生态学奖学金的启发，我们通过对 ASGM、环境保护和妇女包容的正式政策承诺相交或未能相交的点来考虑有关黄金 ASM (ASGM) 和环境的性别含义。我们探讨了构建和/或动员环境叙事的三种背景：2014 年《水俣公约》，随后是两个简短的案例研究，研究了在莫桑比克中部和加纳东部实施不分性别的环境举措对女性手工金矿工人生计的影响。本文最后就环境保护计划与 ASGM 部门妇女赋权议程的交叉点的未来工作提出了三项建议。