Land, Copper, Flora: Dominant Materialities and the Making of Ecuadorian Resource Environments

Davidov, Veronica

doi:10.1353/anq.2014.0010

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“…6 http://www.yanacocha.com.pe/sala-de-prensa/cronologia-caso-combayo (accessed June 2012). 7 See also Davidov (2014) on the materiality of copper. 8 According to the company, the treated water it returns to the environment meets legal standards for water quality.…”

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In Defense of Water: Modern Mining, Grassroots Movements, and Corporate Strategies in Peru

2016

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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R e s u m e nEste artículo explora porqué el agua se ha convertido en un tema central de las controversias mineras recientes, centrándose en un conflicto entre la empresa minera Yanacocha y la comunidad de Combayo, en la sierra norte del Perú. En las protestas de 2006, los campesinos argumentaron que su lucha era por la protección de los recursos hídricos ante la expansión de la minería. La empresa trató de desacreditar estas quejas al arguir que las protestas comenzaron como una demanda por contratos de trabajo y proyectos de desarrollo. Esta separación entre el empleo y el agua, esconde cómo las tecnologías de la minería moderna transforman el paisaje, a la vez que introduce cambios en las prácticas corporativas de la empresa y medidas de acción política en respuesta a la actividad minera. Este artículo examina el papel del agua tanto en la movilización de manifestantes, la reconfiguración de las alianzas políticas existentes y, al propiciar un acuerdo que reduce el alcance del conflicto que da paso a argumentos técnicos sobre la calidad y cantidad de agua, la promesa de empleos, y un estudio hidrológico. [ecología, medio ambiente, movimientos sociales, Perú] A b s t r a c tThis article explores why water is at the center of recent mining controversies in Peru. It explores a conflict between the Yanacocha Mining Company and the community of Combayo in the Northern Highlands. In protests in 2006, campesinos stated that their struggle was over the protection of water resources from mining expansion; the company sought to discredit their claims, suggesting that the protests began as a demand for employment contracts and development projects. The superficial distinction between jobs and water obscures the ways in which modern mining technologies transform the landscape, thus changing both corporate practices and forms of political action

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In Defense of Water: Modern Mining, Grassroots Movements, and Corporate Strategies in Peru

2016

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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“…From its inception, opposition to extraction in Intag was built through transnational alliances, what Davidov (2013): 294) argued “led to a state-oppositional environmentality.” Intag’s history of resistance to mining was built around protection of the environment and an ecologist identity. In 2002, supported by the municipal government, the county of Cotacachi that encompasses Intag was declared an ecological county, banning mining (Davidov, 2014; Kuecker, 2007). Economic development would be built on several ecological cooperatives, including coffee and ecotourism.…”

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“…Following residents’ dismantling of the mining camp and holding paramilitaries in Junín’s church, the Ecuadorian government ended the concession agreement with the Canadian company. The specific territories, social relationships, materialities, and temporalities of Intag informed state formation (Davidov, 2013, Davidov, 2014).…”

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Patriarchy and progressive politics: gendered resistance to mining through everyday social relations of state formation in Intag, Ecuador

Billo

2020

Human Geography

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Over the last decade, the Ecuadorian government, following regional trends, called for social and environmental progress through state-controlled resource extraction. Scholars have demonstrated that this neo-extractive model warranted further investigation regarding its progressive aims. Specifically, this paper examines gendered critiques of state-led extractivism linked to expanding governmental and social programs. Even as women asserted their political recognition and rights in state politics, they still confronted patriarchal relations in their everyday lives. Drawing on eight months of ethnographic research over 6 years in campesino communities of Junín and Chalguayacu Alto, I argue that women in Intag challenged patriarchal state relations of extractive capitalism. This paper offers a novel contribution to literature on neo-extractivism and gendered forms of resistance. Women held the state accountable for its promises of social welfare and infrastructural development through which it generated public support for controversial mineral projects. These symbols of state paternalism revealed expanded patriarchal structures that underpinned their daily lives, with significance for a gendered politics of resistance.

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“…Nature again was commodified as part of a new materiality centered on the protection of a biodiversity hotspot, an agenda dominated mainly by international conservation NGOs. These narratives prioritized a meaning of territory based on the conception of biodiversity as the most important materiality of the territory (Davidov 2014).…”

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Seeing like the people: a history of territory and resistance in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon

Vela-Almeida

2020

Journal of Political Ecology

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The Cordillera del Condor in the Ecuadorian Amazon has been analyzed frequently in the literature of extractivism in Latin America, due to the current mining pressure on this territory. Mining is, however, the most recent in a long history of territorial transformations in the region. The production of territory in the Cordillera del Condor is the result of a complex historical accumulation of events, motivated by the political economy of the country that has transformed the people and its land. By studying the main events of state deterritorialization, this article examines multiple socio-spatial relations that occurred in the Cordillera del Condor. This article identifies three main events of state deterritorialization: (1) colonization and evangelization, (2) the Ecuador-Peru war and (3) large-scale mining. The analysis illustrates how territory is constantly integrated into the economic and political rationality of the nation-state and discusses these transformations in line with the institutionalization of new forms of organization, legibility, commodification of nature and subjectification of people. In contrast, the study also illustrates how people inhabiting this space counteract state deterritorialization by deploying the same strategies as the state; reinforcing reterritorialization in their own terms. The article concludes by highlighting the agency of people to reshape state mechanisms in the struggle of defining a territory.Keywords: state deterritorialization, reterritorialization, political ecology, Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador

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Land, Copper, Flora: Dominant Materialities and the Making of Ecuadorian Resource Environments

Cited by 30 publications

References 36 publications

In Defense of Water: Modern Mining, Grassroots Movements, and Corporate Strategies in Peru

In Defense of Water: Modern Mining, Grassroots Movements, and Corporate Strategies in Peru

Patriarchy and progressive politics: gendered resistance to mining through everyday social relations of state formation in Intag, Ecuador

Seeing like the people: a history of territory and resistance in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon

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