Indigenous Power Struggles in the Peruvian Amazon: A Spatio-cultural Analysis of Communication

Torio, Jeremy John Escobar; Tam, Chui-Ling

doi:10.1080/17524032.2017.1371055

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“…Environmental change and, in particular, climate change have become urgent topics of research within both the natural and the social sciences and the humanities. In response to the growing public concern for global warming and its impact on the planet's future a scholarship is now emerging that studies not only how climate change is experienced and perceived (Arbuckle et al, 2013;Paerregaard, 2013a;Crona, Wutich, Brewis, & Gartin, 2013;Pyhälä et al, 2016) but also how it is communicated in the media (Hardy & Jamiseon, 2017), in national politics (Nisbet, 2009), in the Internet (Connor et al, 2016), in music (Wodak, 2018), in indigenous communities (Escobar Torio & Tam, 2018) and in the society at large (Moser, 2010;Spence & Pidgeon, 2010;van der Linden, Leiserowitz, Ferinberg, & Maibach, 2014). One of the questions addressed by this literature is the nature of climate change science and its contribution to society, which in many places is an issue of dispute and contestation (Hulme, 2009).…”

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Communicating the Inevitable: Climate Awareness, Climate Discord, and Climate Research in Peru’s Highland Communities

Pærregaard

2019

Environmental Communication

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The paper discusses how anthropology contributes to climate change research and communication. Building on theoretical works that highlight the cultural framing of communication it investigates the signs and symbols that a Peruvian highland community creates and the imaginaries and identities it generates to interpret and communicate climate change and its environmental impact. To explore the community's communicative repertoire the paper explores three climate voices that illuminate the conflicting ways the global discourse on climate change impacts the community's future visions. Arguing that anthropogenic climate change poses a new challenge to the communication of urgent public issues the paper asks: Should the communication discuss climate change as a matter-of-fact issue? Or should it present climate change as a cultural phenomenon that is acknowledged as an issue in dispute? The paper concludes that climate change research is a post-normal science that not only must engage a range of scholarly traditions and methods but also listen to the voices that are affected by climate change in the real world. It encourages climate change communicators to recognize that climate communication is a dialogical relation based on the mutual interests of its experts and its users in providing as well as receiving knowledge.

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Communicating the Inevitable: Climate Awareness, Climate Discord, and Climate Research in Peru’s Highland Communities

Pærregaard

2019

Environmental Communication

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Characterizing Interpersonal Influence for Grassland Conservation Behaviours in a Unique Population

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Dealing With Stakeholders After Early Failures in a Gas Pipeline in Pristine Jungle

Otegui

2019

ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering

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The development of gas fields in the Peruvian Amazon jungle required the construction of new pipelines in unexplored tropical forest areas, which faced unexpected logistic and operative difficulties, including several leaks and ruptures. This article briefly describes those early failures and how collaboration among people with notable different interests, work cultures, and idiosyncrasies could eventually handle the pressure by regulatory agencies, shareholders, media, environmental NGOs, and political parties. All failures in the forest were due to soil movements, related to a poor understanding of topological and geotechnical characteristics of the hilly forest, and how water flow influenced soil stability. The reasons for public outrage after the failures are discussed, including politically fueled nationalistic sentiments, transnationally driven natural resource exploitation and indigenous power struggles. The oil and gas development was itself the main reason for most trouble; but leaks and failures severely weakened the position of the operator, who then implemented some methods to regain public consensus.

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Indigenous Power Struggles in the Peruvian Amazon: A Spatio-cultural Analysis of Communication

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

Communicating the Inevitable: Climate Awareness, Climate Discord, and Climate Research in Peru’s Highland Communities

Communicating the Inevitable: Climate Awareness, Climate Discord, and Climate Research in Peru’s Highland Communities

Characterizing Interpersonal Influence for Grassland Conservation Behaviours in a Unique Population

Dealing With Stakeholders After Early Failures in a Gas Pipeline in Pristine Jungle

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