Team > Dr. Sarah Katz-Lavigne

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Sarah Katz-Lavigne holds a joint PhD in International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University and in International Relations at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Her PhD research focused on conflict at and around large-scale mining (LSM) sites in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Specifically, she examined how a range of actors govern the so-called “clandestine” extraction of minerals from LSM sites, including government, public and private security, corporate officials, artisanal miners, and other actors in the supply chain. She also assessed the impact of the functioning of a multifaceted property rights regime on conflict and distributional dynamics at and around mine sites.

Sarah has published single-authored articles in The Extractive Industries and Society, Resources Policy, and Third World Thematics. She has co-authored papers with Moses Kiggundu (Carleton University) in the Africa Journal of Management and with Doris Buss, Aluoka Otieno, and Eileen Alma in the Canadian Journal of African Studies. She has also published policy-focused articles in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage and in Africa is a Country and advocated against the idea that the artisanal mining of cobalt in the DRC is “conflict-affected” or “dirty”.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Regional

• The Democratic Republic of Congo
• Kenya
  

Thematic

• Large-Scale Mining and Artisanal Mining (ASM)
• "Clandestine" Mining
• Conflict
• Property Rights
• Gender and Women's Empowerment in ASM

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Publications

2020

Sarah Katz-Lavigne: Distributional impact of corporate extraction and (un)authorised clandestine mining at and around large-scale copper- and cobalt-mining sites in DR Congo. In: Resources Policy, 65 (2020). - .
doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101584

Doris Buss, Sarah Katz-Lavigne, Otieno Aluoka, Eileen Alma: "Remember the women of Osiri" : women and gender in artisanal and small-scale mining in Migori County, Kenya. In: Canadian Journal of African Studies = Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, 54 (2020). - S. 177-195.
doi:10.1080/00083968.2019.1677483

2019

Sarah Katz-Lavigne: Property rights and large-scale mining : overlapping claims at and around mining sites at the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. In: Chris Huggins (Hrsg.): Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining : Critical Approaches. - Abingdon : Routledge, 2019.

Sarah Katz-Lavigne: Demand for Congo's cobalt is on the rise : So is the scrutiny of mining practices. In: The Washington Post's Monkey Cage, 2019-02-21

Sarah Katz-Lavigne, Moses Kiggundu: African continental integration scholarly literature review : Advances, gaps, and opportunities. In: Africa Journal of Management, 5 (2019). - S. 303-331.
doi:10.1080/23322373.2019.1676100

Sarah Katz-Lavigne: Artisanal copper mining and conflict at the intersection of property rights and corporate strategies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In: The Extractive Industries and Society, 6 (2019). - S. 399-406.
doi:10.1016/j.exis.2018.12.001

2018

Sarah Katz-Lavigne, Jana Hönke: Cobalt isn't a conflict mineral. In: Africa Is a Country, 2018-11-09

Sarah Katz-Lavigne: Saunders, Richard ; Nyamunda, Tinashe (ed.): Facets of Power: Politics, Profits and People in the Making of Zimbabwe’s Blood Diamonds. Harare, Zimbabwe, 2016. In:Canadian Journal of African Studies = Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, 52, S. 111-113: 2018
doi:10.1080/00083968.2017.1396141

2017

Sarah Katz-Lavigne: The renegotiation window : Resource contract renegotiations in the mining industry in Africa from 2000 to 2013. In: Resources Policy, 51 (2017). - S. 22-30.
doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2016.11.001

2016

Sarah Katz-Lavigne: Property rights and large-scale mining : overlapping claims at and around mining sites at the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. In: Third World Thematics, 1 (2016). - S. 202-217.
doi:10.1080/23802014.2016.1196604

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Dr. Sarah Katz-Lavigne
Junior Lecturer at the Sociology of Africa Chair, University of Bayreuth, and PhD Candidate, Carleton University and the University of Groningen

Building GW II, Room 003

Office hours: Thursday 4-5 p.m.

Phone: +49 (0)921/55-4207
E-mail: sarah.katz-lavigne@uni-bayreuth.de