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Conflict and Community Resistance to Mining

Sun, May 26, 2:15 to 3:45pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

From the late 1990s until the present, a wave of socio-territorial and socio-environmental conflicts related to mining development has affected hundreds of communities in the Global South. There exists, now, a vast literature that helps us understand a) the various causes of these conflicts in indigenous and peasant communities in Latin America, be they social-environmental, political, economic or cultural (Conde and Le Billon 2017, 2016 Humphreys-Bebbington and Bebbington 2013, Bebbington and Bury 2013); and b) the emergence of local consultation processes with communities regarding extractive projects at the local scale (Walter and Urkidi 2015). However, several studies have pointed out that in the current politicized context of mining there is a paucity of research in the recent literature on environmental governance in the Global South on the emergence and effects of environmental regulatory laws and in understanding successful cases of resistance by socio-environnmental movements in the mining sector (Broad and Fischer-Mackey 2016, De Castro Hogenboom and Baud 2016, Kunatala Lahiri-Dutt 2007).

What are the reasons for success when socio-environmental movements effectively resist extractive projects? And why and how the legislatures in different countries enacted laws banning mining exploitation? The aim of this panel is to answer these questions by analyzing and comparing the different forms of environmental governance and contentious politics of the extractive sector in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and India.

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