Generating rights for communities harmed by mining: legal and other action

North, Liisa; Young, Laura A.

doi:10.1080/02255189.2013.761954

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“…The extent of the various elements incorporated into movement alliances such as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and legal practitioners has enabled marginalized communities to employ this strategy. However, as stated by North and Young (2013), the adjudication process can require a considerable amount of time, cost, and effort as well as the support of well-managed movement alliances and professional lawyers. Through the adjudication strategy, the community can obtain court-mandated compensation for the losses of land, quality and quantity of water, biodiversity, and livelihood.…”

Section: Social Movement Strategy and Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Key Elements of Environmental Justice in the Geothermal Power Plant Resistance Movement

Santoso

Kusumasari

2019

Jurnal Politik

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Geothermal energy is currently considered an environmentally friendly, renewable energy source. However, based on empirical data from various countries, geothermal energy production often results socio-ecological losses for the host community. Various environmental justice movements have emerged to protect environment by protesting and providing a counter discourse against the dominant perception that geothermal energy is renewable and environmentally friendly. This article aimed to understand how the strategy and discourse of the Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet (freely translated into Save Slamet Alliance) movement in rejecting the construction of the Baturraden Geothermal Power Plant (PLTPB) in Banyumas by outlining the key elements and specific conditions observed. Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet is intriguing because it has achieved active involvement of various elements through its respective perspectives to jointly reject the construction of the PLTPB. Using a theoretical framework of the movement strategy, we examined how Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet determined the selection of targets, framing, time, and relations in the resistance movement. The method was a qualitative approach: a review of primary data in the form of interviews and written documents. The results indicate sociopolitical conditions, relations between organizations, and organizational cultures also influence the strategies and discourses that the Aliansi Selamatkan Slamet movement created.

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Section: Social Movement Strategy and Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Key Elements of Environmental Justice in the Geothermal Power Plant Resistance Movement

Santoso

Kusumasari

2019

Jurnal Politik

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“…Tellingly, at the same time that Canada's foreign policy (6) was supporting the IDRC ecohealth program, it was also contributing to re-writing of national mining legislation in places such as Guyana, Honduras and Colombia (Black and McKenna 1995;Blackwood and Stewart 2012;Gordon and Webber 2014). This re-writing facilitated the entry into these countries of Canadian companies -companies that have been accused of numerous human rights and environmental violations (Bebbington and Bury 2013;Deneault et al 2008;North and Young 2013). Access to mineral resources in the global South for large mining companies (4) -of which fully 75% raise funds on Canadian stock exchanges -has been promoted through mechanisms of neoliberalization such as conditional loans (6) requiring liberalization of national economies, international trade agreements (6), and national mining legislation (6) facilitating foreign investment (Butler 2015;Coumans 2010;Deneault and Sacher 2012;Kirsch 2014).…”

Section: Mining Ecohealth and Canadian Foreign Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecosystem approaches to health and knowledge-to-action: towards a political ecology of applied health-environment knowledge

Brisbois

Burgos

Barraza

et al. 2017

Journal of Political Ecology

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Political ecology pushes back against the apolitical and ahistorical ecologies frequently found in mainstream scientific accounts of nature and the environment, and has increasingly focused on how scientific knowledge is 'socially constructed.' In this article, we argue for political ecological engagement with the highly influential knowledge-to-action (KTA) movement in science about health and the environment. We introduce KTA using results of a survey conducted under the auspices of a Canada-Latin America-Caribbean 'ecosystem approaches to health' (ecohealth) collaboration, and then narrow our focus to a single illustrative ecohealth project, dealing with the health impacts of small-scale gold mining in southwestern Ecuador. We employ an ecology of knowledge framework for integrating insights from science and technology studies, illustrating the interacting actors, material artifacts, institutions and discourses involved in not only the generation but also the application of health-environment science. The origins of ecohealth research in the Americas reflect interacting epistemological and political factors, as sophisticated, complex systemic analyses of health-environment interactions occurred amidst increasing neoliberalization of knowledge production. Simultaneously, corporate actors such as large mining companies influenced both the distribution of healthdamaging environmental conditions in the Americas, and the ways in which they were studied. This analysis motivates our advocacy of specifically political ecologies of health-environment knowledge, in which inequitable power dynamics and non-human actors are foregrounded in studies of the social production and application of science. The political ecology of knowledge framework that we envision would allow for simultaneous consideration of how societal contexts influence scientific knowledge production, and how the resulting knowledge can be better applied to protect the health of communities facing environmental injustice. Key words: ecohealth; mining; praxis; science and technology studies; knowledge-to-action; Canada; Ecuador Résumé L'écologie politique remet en question las explications apolitiques et anhistoriques fréquemment rencontrées dans les compte-rendu scientifiques sur la nature et l'environnement et met de plus en plus l'accent sur la manière dont la connaissance scientifique est socialement construite. Dans cet article, nous soutenons la pertinence de l'écologie politique pour le mouvement « du savoir à l'action », très influent dans les sciences de la santé de l'environnement. Nous présentons la perspective « du savoir à l'action » en nous appuyant sur les résultats d'une enquête menée dans le cadre d'une collaboration Canada-Amérique latine et Caraïbes sur les approches écosystémiques à la santé (écosanté), pour ensuite concentrer notre attention sur un unique projet écosanté, qui porte sur les effets sur la santé de l'extraction de l'or à petite échelle dans le sud-ouest de l'Équateur. Nous employons un cadre conceptuel d'écologi...

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“…There is also little help from the legal system; several lawsuits launched in Canadian courts by Latin American communities harmed by mining have failed to provide relief (North and Young 2013). There have been several attempts in recent years to hold mining companies accountable for their actions abroad and to induce better corporate behaviour through legislation.…”

Section: Promoting Canadian Extractive Capital In Latin Americamentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Free Trade

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2015

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Generating rights for communities harmed by mining: legal and other action

Cited by 28 publications

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Key Elements of Environmental Justice in the Geothermal Power Plant Resistance Movement

Key Elements of Environmental Justice in the Geothermal Power Plant Resistance Movement

Ecosystem approaches to health and knowledge-to-action: towards a political ecology of applied health-environment knowledge

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