In 2016, the ten indigenous campesino communities of the district of Chamaca, Peru temporarily seized a copper mine owned and operated by a transnational mining company, HudBay Minerals. To understand such mining conflicts in Chamaca, this thesis examines how colonial logics and power relations underpin contemporary development policies of the Peruvian state. In particular, I analyze how the historical entanglements of race, indigenous land tenure and labor, and mining inform contemporary extractivist policies. Drawing on three months of ethnographic research, I argue that the HudBay mining enclosure, justified by such policies, reproduces the colonial power structure in three ways: through 1) dispossessions that deplete indigenous social r...
In this dissertation, I offer a materialist account of the relationship between nation, nature, and ...
The Peruvian economy depends for its growth on the export of natural resources and investment in the...
Racial Spoils from Native Soils: How Neoliberalism Steals Indigenous Lands in Highland Peru explains...
In 2016, the ten indigenous campesino communities of the district of Chamaca, Peru temporarily seize...
Since the 1990s, the adoption of the extractive imperative in Peru, while leading to unprecedented e...
This article analyzes the experiences of the small Shuar community of Kenkuim (Congüime) in the Ecua...
Indigenous rights organizations in Latin America consider territorial control the paramount conditio...
Scholarship on the 2000s commodity boom and its effects on state development in Latin America seldom...
This dissertation examines the relation between language and mining practices in Potosi in the XVI, ...
My dissertation examines how transnational mega-mines efface non-Western ways of knowing and being f...
Indigenous agency and environmental degradation follow sinuous paths, and both depend on state polic...
This dissertation analyzes cultural representations of the mining space of the Peruvian Andes from t...
The cities of Potosí (Bolivia) and Ouro Preto (Brazil) have played central economic roles during Lat...
Rising levels of social mobilization occurred throughout the period of the recent commodity boom in ...
This article concentrates on the place occupied by ethnicity in the discourses and practices of diff...
In this dissertation, I offer a materialist account of the relationship between nation, nature, and ...
The Peruvian economy depends for its growth on the export of natural resources and investment in the...
Racial Spoils from Native Soils: How Neoliberalism Steals Indigenous Lands in Highland Peru explains...
In 2016, the ten indigenous campesino communities of the district of Chamaca, Peru temporarily seize...
Since the 1990s, the adoption of the extractive imperative in Peru, while leading to unprecedented e...
This article analyzes the experiences of the small Shuar community of Kenkuim (Congüime) in the Ecua...
Indigenous rights organizations in Latin America consider territorial control the paramount conditio...
Scholarship on the 2000s commodity boom and its effects on state development in Latin America seldom...
This dissertation examines the relation between language and mining practices in Potosi in the XVI, ...
My dissertation examines how transnational mega-mines efface non-Western ways of knowing and being f...
Indigenous agency and environmental degradation follow sinuous paths, and both depend on state polic...
This dissertation analyzes cultural representations of the mining space of the Peruvian Andes from t...
The cities of Potosí (Bolivia) and Ouro Preto (Brazil) have played central economic roles during Lat...
Rising levels of social mobilization occurred throughout the period of the recent commodity boom in ...
This article concentrates on the place occupied by ethnicity in the discourses and practices of diff...
In this dissertation, I offer a materialist account of the relationship between nation, nature, and ...
The Peruvian economy depends for its growth on the export of natural resources and investment in the...
Racial Spoils from Native Soils: How Neoliberalism Steals Indigenous Lands in Highland Peru explains...