<b>Remote sensing techniques</b> for tracking changes caused by illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru

Adamek, Katarzyna; Lupa, Michał; Zawadzki, Mateusz

doi:10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0028

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“…But only so far; then they go separate ways. Estimates place illegal gold from Madre de Dios circulating in the global market at around 18 tons (Adamek, Lupa, and Zawadzki 2021). Peruvian maca ends up in Japan and China (Smith 2015; Zhou 2017), while coca for cocaine goes around the world (UNODC 2021; Zevallos 2017), and ayahuasca lands in laboratories in the Global North (Sánchez and Bouso 2015).…”

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Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature

Goldstein

2022

Cult. Anthropol.

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Engaging ethnographic fieldwork and archival research conducted between 2010 and 2021 along Latin America’s Interoceanic Highway in Peru’s mineral-rich Amazonian region of Madre de Dios, this article begins with a riddle that equates the exploitation of gold mines with that of women. I follow the riddle—revised and (re)told in rain forest mines, on the highway, by sex workers and Indigenous women leaders—through its different iterations to argue that the traffic in women and the political economy of sex/gender systems are discursively and materially linked with notions of the violability of feminized “nature” and associated racializations. The traffic in women also becomes a traffic in nature when economies of natural resource extraction create the grounds for the sex industry. Traffic as a methodological and analytical framework identifies the social, political, and economic interrelations and linguistic articulations that create (im)mobility, while also promoting reverse-ability. At the same time, this approach acknowledges collisions and jams, the realities of hard endings. Drawing inspiration from subversive retellings of the riddle, the concept of traffic underscores that while discursive framings can condition material possibilities and influence human actions by normalizing exploitation, they need not cement them. RESUMEN Integrando datos etnográficos recogidos en campo e investigación de archivo realizados entre 2010 y 2021 en el ámbito de la Carretera Interoceánica Sur, enfocando en la región de Madre de Dios de la Amazonia Peruana, este articulo parte de una adivinanza que equipara las minas de oro y las mujeres. Yo sigo la adivinanza – revisada y (re)contada por trabajadoras sexuales y lideresas indígenas en las minas de la selva y en la Carretera a través de sus diferentes iteraciones para argumentar que la trata de mujeres y la economía política de los sistemas de sexo/género están discursiva y materialmente articulados con nociones de la explotación de la “naturaleza” feminizada y sus racializaciones asociadas. La trata de mujeres es también es un tráfico de «naturaleza» cuando la economía de la extracción de recursos naturales genera las condiciones para la industria sexual. El tráfico como marco metodológico y analítico identifica las interrelaciones sociales, políticas, y económicas y las articulaciones lingüísticas que crean (in)movilidad, mientras promueven la capacidad de revertir. Al mismo tiempo, este enfoque reconoce colisiones y nudos, las realidades de conclusiones inmutables. Desde las versiones subversivas (re) contadas de la adivinanza, el concepto de tráfico destaca que mientras los marcos discursivos pueden condicionar las posibilidades materiales e influenciar las acciones humanas al normalizar la explotación, ellas no deberían consolidarse.

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Section: Traffic Linesmentioning

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Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature

Goldstein

2022

Cult. Anthropol.

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“…An example is Peru, where it is estimated that there may be around 500,000 people engaged in this mining type [8]. Unfortunately, the lack of economic opportunities, the high price and demand for gold and the scarce legislation regarding its extraction are only some of the main reasons for the rise of ASGM [5,9,10]. These mining activities represent the only source of income for many families, especially in regions where alternatives to agriculture or livestock farming are limited [4].…”

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Peruvian Native Bacterial Strains as Potential Bioremediation Agents in Hg-Polluted Soils by Artisanal Mining Activities in Southern Peru

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Bioremediation of soils and waters due to mercury (Hg) contamination represents one of the most critical environmental challenges. In addition, this challenge is even greater in arid soils due to the low economic interest in these regions. Such is the case of the Secocha Annex, located in the Arequipa province of Camaná in Southern Peru. In this region, the excessive use of Hg in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) activities has seriously endangered the health of its inhabitants. Unfortunately, there are few projects aimed at improving the environmental and sanitary conditions of this locality. An alternative to conventional cleaning technology is the use of native microorganisms that allow the recovery of ecological environments with low-cost and low-tech techniques. This work aims to present two new Hg-resistant bacterial strains obtained from Hg-polluted soils of the Secocha Annex as potential bioremediation agents. Both strains showed growth capacity on Hg substrates and their adsorption behaviors and Hg removal capacities were evaluated. By deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analysis, both Gram-positive strains were identified as Kocuria sp. (99.35% similarity) and Zhihengliuella sp. (99.78% similarity). Spectrometry results showed elimination capacities with values close to 28.4 and 33.3 % in an incubation time period of 45 days, with the maximum elimination efficiency in the first 24 h. These results are encouraging and offer new possibilities for the use of native strains in the bioremediation of arid soils contaminated with Hg in the Secocha Annex. Furthermore, due to the low cost and minimization of negative impacts, this technique and our bacterial strains could be used in other regions of Peru.

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Recent expansion of artisanal gold mining along the Bandama River (Côte d’Ivoire)

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Mbaye

Baratoux

et al. 2022

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinfor

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Remote sensing techniques for tracking changes caused by illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru

Cited by 3 publications

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Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature

Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature

Peruvian Native Bacterial Strains as Potential Bioremediation Agents in Hg-Polluted Soils by Artisanal Mining Activities in Southern Peru

Recent expansion of artisanal gold mining along the Bandama River (Côte d’Ivoire)

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