Resistance, repression and elite dynamics: Unpacking violence in the Guatemalan mining sector

¿Un compromiso social para el Antropoceno? Reacciones de las élites al Acuerdo de Escazú y las posibilidades de un Estado verde transformador latinoamericano

“…En el primer caso, la denominación "élites" sería intercambiable con "clases dominantes", que incluirían las élites empresariales, latifundistas y políticas, que suelen actuar en estrecha alianza (Nercesian, 2020;North y Clark, 2018;Cueva y Douglas, 2019). A veces, son también consideradas aliadas en una economía capitalista global, al participar en estructuras regionales y globales de pro-piedad de capitales (Sveinsdóttir, Aguilar-Støen y Bull, 2021;Segovia, 2006Segovia, , 2021Porras, 2021). No obstante, hay élites que dominan la economía gracias a su control de los recursos políticos.…”

“…Algunos de los sectores con un mayor impacto medioambiental, como la producción petrolera y minera, han estado en mayor medida controlados por los Estados y por empresas transnacionales, más que en el caso de otros sectores. A pesar de ello, incluso en estos casos las élites económicas locales también suelen participar de forma importante en dichas industrias, en la medida en que desempeñan todo un abanico de roles que van desde proveedores y propietarios de tierras, hasta puestos directivos o de mediación con las empresas transnacionales (Sveinsdóttir, Aguilar-Støen y Bull, 2021;Crabtree y Durand, 2017).…”

A Social compromise for the Anthropocene? Elite reactions to the Escazú Agreement and the prospects for a Latin American transformative green state

“…In the first case, "elite" is used interchangeably with "dominant classes", including business, landholding and political elites, considered to operate in close alliances (Nercesian, 2020;North and Clark, 2018;Cueva and Douglas, 2019). Sometimes these are analyzed as allies in a global capitalist economy, associated with regional and global configurations of ownership of capital (Sveinsdóttir, Aguilar-Støen and Bull, 2021;Segovia 2006, Porras, 2021. However, elites that dominate the economy may also emerge due to the control over political resources.…”

“…Some of the sectors with the strongest environmental impact, such oil production and mining, have to a larger extent been controlled by states and transnational companies than other sectors. Yet even when that is the case, local economic elites have high stakes in the industries as they occupy a variety of roles ranging from being suppliers and landowners to managers and facilitators for transnational industries (Sveinsdóttir, Aguilar-Støen, and Bull, 2021;Crabtree and Durand, 2017).…”

“Conflicts of interests” within and between elite assemblages in the legal production of space: Indigenous cultural heritage preservation and the Dakota Access Pipeline

“…164–165). I build on Driver’s critique, arguing that elites – here, federal agencies, courts, and politicians – are composed of multiple subgroups and individuals, with divergent interests, subject to pressures from other elites, resulting in what I term “conflicts of interests.” In conversation with recent scholarship on disagreements, fragmentation, competition and alliance‐building within and among corporate and political elites (e.g., Bull & Aguilar‐Støen, 2019; Genç, 2021; McDoom, 2014; Raleigh & Dowd, 2018; Sveinsdóttir et al, 2021), I use ethnography to analyse elites as assemblages held together – and split apart – by ideologies and emotions. I agree with Driver that elite interests may not be based solely in “raw material self‐interest” but may involve “concepts like honor, altruism, justice, and morality,” (2011, p. 169) and, I suggest, discourses, cultural norms, institutional missions, and empathy.…”