Fighting for Andean Resources
Extractive Industries, Cultural Politics, and Environmental Struggles in Peru
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Fighting for Andean Resources
Extractive Industries, Cultural Politics, and Environmental Struggles in Peru
About this book
2021 American Anthropological Association´s, finalist of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
Mining investment in Peru has been presented as necessary for national progress; however, it also has brought socioenvironmental costs, left unfulfilled hopes for development, and has become a principal source of confrontation and conflict.
Fighting for Andean Resources focuses on the competing agendas for mining benefits and the battles over their impact on proximate communities in the recent expansion of the Peruvian mining frontier. The book complements renewed scrutiny of how globalization nurtures not solely antagonism but also negotiation and participation.
Having mastered an intimate knowledge of Peru, Vladimir R. Gil Ramón insightfully documents how social technologies of power are applied through social technical protocols of accountability invoked in defense of nature and vulnerable livelihoods. Although analyses point to improvements in human well-being, a political and technical debate has yet to occur in practice that would define what such improvements would be, the best way to achieve and measure them, and how to integrate dimensions such as sustainability and equity.
Many confrontations stem from frustrated expectations, environmental impacts, and the virtual absence of state apparatus in the locations where new projects emerged. This book presents a multifaceted perspective on the processes of representation, the strategies in conflicts and negotiations of development and nature management, and the underlying political actions in sites affected by mining.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword by Enrique Mayer
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Struggle for Andean Rocks
- 1. Mining Apparatus
- 2. From “Involuntary Resettlement” to Displacement
- 3. A Pipeline to Save a National Park: Participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment
- 4. From Roads to Coliseums: The Long and Winding Road of Development Myths
- 5. “Dear Engineer, Could You Explain to My Donkey That This Cloudy Water with a Bad Smell Is Clean?”: The Politics of Pollution and Environmental Risk
- Conclusion: Reassessing Stratagems, Struggles, and Citizenship
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- References
- Index