The Governance and Management of Mineral Resources in Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel explores the varieties of institutions and political mechanisms involved in Andean and Central American mining industries. It includes papers that address the multi-vocal and multi-faceted nature of processes of mineral management and extraction. They do so by examining issues ranging from the variety of Latin American anti-mining movements, the vocabularies, instruments and practices they employ, and the circumstances under which these movements succeed or fail; the mining-related and other relevant legislation (labour, environmental, resource management, foreign investment and other) that provides the context and instruments through which mineral exploitation as well as the conflicts thereof are dealt with; the claims over resource sovereignty; and the relationship between resource governance and environmental claims and concerns.

Sub Track

• Political Institutions and Processes

Session Organizers

• Rose J Spalding, DePaul University

• Ainhoa Montoya, University of London

Chair

• Ainhoa Montoya, University of London

Individual Presentations

• The Performance of Extractive Companies in Peru - Moises Arce, University of Missouri

• Do Anti-Mining Conflicts Improve Water Governance? - Lyuba Zarsky, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

• Institutions, Values and Resources: Interpreting Competing Outcomes of Anti-Mining Movements in Costa Rica and Nicaragua - Rose J Spalding, DePaul University

• The Transnational Nature of Mining-Related Conflicts in El Salvador - Ainhoa Montoya, University of London

Discussant

• Richard Stahler-Sholk, Eastern Michigan University