Community mining consultations in Latin America (2002–2012): The contested emergence of a hybrid institution for participation

The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability

“…How is the technical language of Western environmentalism (increasingly used for strategic reasons) combined with arguments about identity and culture, and to what effect? How do new forms of action appear and are diffused across time and space as for instance popular consultations in South America (Walter and Urkidi 2017)? What are the vocabularies and cultural expressions of the global movement for environmental justice (Martinez-Alier et al 2014 such as banners, slogans, documentaries and songs used in the various struggles for environmental justice across the world?…”

Learning and Teaching Through the Online Environmental Justice Atlas: From Empowering Activists to Motivating Students

“…Large‐scale activities such as dams, mining, tree plantations, waste disposal, fracking, and incinerators are the object of high stake disputes (Gerber 2011; Temper et al. 2018; Walter and Urkidi 2017). As resources needed to fuel our economy move through the commodity chain from extraction, processing and disposal, environmental impacts are externalized at each stage onto the most marginalized populations.…”

Sovereignties in Conflict: Socio-environmental Mobilization and the Glaciers Law in Argentina

“…169 for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. The consultation process, far from being homogeneous, as pointed out by Walter & Urkidi (2015), is characterized as a "hybrid institution that combines formal and informal competences (i.e. regulations, management and communication) and different forms of power (e.g.…”

“…In the past decade a vast and rich literature has emerged, analysing, from different case studies, socio-environmental conflicts in relation to the continued development of extractive industries in the region. These publications help us to understand issues such as the processes of dispossession of indigenous and rural communities in the context of the emergence of a new development model (Arsel, Hogenboom, Pellegrini, 2016), the multiple socio-political impacts in the subsoil of such extractive activities (Bebbington & Bury, 2013), and the implications of community-level consultation processes on extractive projects (Walter & Urkidi, 2015). However, the analysis of enacted law regulating large-scale mining in response to socio-environmental mobilization has received scant attention (Broad & Cavanagh, 2015).…”