La Transnacionalización de la Resistencia a la Minería en Tambogrande y Pascua Lama

Abstract

Fecha de recepción: 13 de abril de 2018 Fecha de aceptación y versión final: 26 de noviembre de 2018 RESUMEN: El artículo explora diferentes grados de escalamiento global de las protestas de resistencia a la megaminería. Se explica cómo los actores locales toman decisiones respecto a cambios de escala a nivel internacional al mismo tiempo que contemplan las opciones institucionales disponibles a nivel nacional. A partir de dos casos de resistencia a la minería de oro -Tambogrande en Perú y Pascua Lama en Chile-, este estudio explica cómo los actores locales combinan diferentes grados de escalamiento global y nacional dadas las características de la institucionalidad ambiental nacional que encaran.Palabras clave: transnacionalización de la protesta; oposición a la minería; Tambogrande; Pascua Lama.ABSTRACT: The paper explores different strategic levels of global escalation of conflicts in resistance to mining. The aim is to answer how do local communities make decisions regarding changes in scale at the international level, while considering the institutional options available at the national level. Based on two cases of resistance to gold mining -Tambogrande in Peru and Pascua Lama in Chile-, this study explains how local actors combine different levels of global and national escalation, taking into acount the characteristics of national environmental institutions.

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