Unearthing Conflict : Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru /
Fabiana Li examines the politics surrounding the rapid growth of mining in the Peruvian Andes, arguing that anti-mining protests are not only about mining's negative environmental impacts, but about the legitimization of contested forms of knowledge.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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London :
Duke University Press,
2015.
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Table des matières:
- A mining country
- Mining past and present
- Toxic legacies, nascent activism
- Mega-mining and emergent conflicts
- Water and life
- The hydrology of a sacred mountain
- Irrigation and contested equivalences
- Activism and expertise
- Stepping outside the document
- Expanding frontiers of extraction.