Unearthing Conflict : Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Li, Fabiana, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sociala konflikter.
Miljöfrågor.
Mineralindustri.
Gruvor.
Gruvindustri.
Widerstand
Politischer Konflikt
Umweltschaden
Bergbau
Social conflict.
Mines and mineral resources.
Mineral industries > Social aspects.
Mineral industries > Political aspects.
Mineral industries > Environmental aspects.
Mineral industries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Mines > Industrie > Aspect de l'environnement > Perou.
Mines > Industrie > Perou.
Mines > Industrie > Aspect politique > Perou.
Mines > Industrie > Aspect social > Perou.
Social conflict > Peru.
Mines and mineral resources > Peru.
Mineral industries > Environmental aspects > Peru.
Mineral industries > Peru.
Mineral industries > Political aspects > Peru.
Mineral industries > Social aspects > Peru.
Peru
Peru.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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