Local Experiences of Mining in Peru: Social and Spatial Transformations in the Andes

ISBN-13: 9780367258863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 132 str.

Gerardo Castillo

Opis

This book uses a multi-method approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: new light for old ghosts  2. Spatial transformations and mining development in Peruvian Andes  3. The historical production of La Granja  4. Access  4.1. The old regime: the hacendado  4.2. The state  4.3. Mining companies  4.4. Local families  5. Production  5.1. Farming activities  5.2. Non-farming activities  5.3. Transformation of the local power landscape  6. Mobility  6.1. Migratory experiences  6.2. Spatial dynamics  7. Representations  7.1. The past  7.2. The present  7.3. The future  7.4. Representations of space and construction of place  8. By way of conclusion: what is new under the sun?  9. References 

O autorze

Gerardo Castillo Guzmán is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Coordinator of the Anthropology at the City Research Group at PUCP and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute, Australia.