Mining, Political Settlements and Inclusive Development in Peru

Sanborn, Cynthia; Ramírez, Tania; Hurtado, Verónica

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“…Political settlements are reached through a process of negotiation between different actors, including state agencies. Therefore, the state is not considered a monolithic entity but as an arena of contention where different actors and sectors struggle for power (Migdal 1988). In the case of Ica, the political settlement includes some state sectors, primarily the national Ministries of Agriculture and Economy, while excluding others including environmental agencies within central government and regional agencies responsible for regulating water.…”

Section: Political Settlementmentioning

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“…For the author, states have increasingly concentrated their power through building and managing irrigation mostly in semiarid ecosystems. There has been several critiques of Oriental Despotism for its environmental determinism in defining hydraulic societies (Livingston 2011) and its technological determinism in associating irrigation systems with authoritarian political rule (Mitchell 1973, Davies 2009. However, other studies have traced a continuity with Wittfogel's dialectical understanding of human societies in relation with water by, for example, developing the concept of the hydrosocial cycle (Budds et al 2014, Bichsel 2016.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…After a few years, the so-called miracle became endangered by its own success. The extensive production of export crops implied the overexploitation of the Ica, Villacurí, and Lanchas aquifer, triggering a decrease in groundwater levels and resulting in water scarcity affecting many different users across the region (Oré et al 2012, Marshall 2014. In response to this situation, the regional government restricted the drilling of new underground wells for agricultural use, banning them altogether in 2005.…”

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The constitution of hydrosocial power: agribusiness and water scarcity in Ica, Peru

Damonte¹

2019

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During the 2000s, the Ica region, located on the Peruvian coast, gained notoriety as the main stage of what the media and politicians called the "agricultural export miracle." The exponential growth of nontraditional exports that ensued, along with the rising importance of the agroindustry in generating foreign currency, led to the emergence of an agribusiness elite as an important new social actor. Through a range of strategies aimed at consolidating and expanding its power over state and nonstate actors, the agribusiness elite has been able to overexploit scarce groundwater resources in the pursuit of economic growth without opposition. Thus, the question that guides this article is, how did the agribusiness elite secure access to valuable groundwater resources to the verge of depletion despite the attempts of regional and local authorities to regulate water use? Based on a political ecology perspective, I argue that a political settlement between the agribusiness elite, certain state sectors, and local actors, based on a shared neoliberal development discourse, has laid the foundations for the agribusiness elite to concentrate its hydropower in the region. In developing this argument, I analyze the elite's strategies to reproduce the different dimension of hydropower as well as the fragmented and sometimes contradictory political positioning of different state agencies. This article contributes to the literature by unpacking the extractivist state and the elite's strategies to reproduce its hydrosocial power.

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“…However, it took more than fifteen years, and particularly violent protest actions by indigenous peoples of the Amazon and their supporters, for congress to approve legislation designed to implement this right, which was signed into law by President Humala in 2011. 21 The Ministry of Culture and its Vice Ministry for Intercultural Affairs is tasked with supervising and guiding consultations under this framework (Sanborn, Ramírez, and Hurtado, 2017). The first consultation processes began in 2013 and by the end of 2016, thirty-three processes had been initiated, thirteen of which involved hydrocarbon concessions in the Amazon and ten of which involved permissions for mining exploration or exploitation activities.…”

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“…Tania Ramírez and Verónica Hurtado made considerable and important contributions to the development of the Peruvian case study. This chapter is based largely on an earlier and more extensive document published as Sanborn et al (2017) 'Mining, political settlements and inclusive development in Peru', ESID Working Paper Number 79.…”

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Governing Extractive Industries

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Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. The authors analyse resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia. They focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. Special attention is paid to the nature of elite politics, the emergence of new political actors, forms of political contention, changing ideas regarding natural resources and development, the geography of natural resource deposits, and the influence of the transnational political economy of global commodity production. National elites and subnational actors are in continuous contention over extractive industry governance. Resource rents are used by elites to manage this contention and incorporate actors into governing coalitions and overall political settlements. Periodically, new resource frontiers are opened, and new political actors emerge with the power to redefine how extractive industries are governed and used as instruments for development. Colonial and post-colonial histories of resource extraction continue to give political valence to ideas of resource nationalism that mobilize actors who challenge existing institutional arrangements. The book is innovative in its focus on the political longue durée, and the use of in-depth, comparative, country-level analysis in Africa and Latin America, to build a theoretical argument that accounts for both similarity and divergence between these regions.

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Everyday Gender Violence in Peru in the Context of Extractive Operations

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2020

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Mining, Political Settlements and Inclusive Development in Peru

Cited by 17 publications

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The constitution of hydrosocial power: agribusiness and water scarcity in Ica, Peru

The constitution of hydrosocial power: agribusiness and water scarcity in Ica, Peru

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Everyday Gender Violence in Peru in the Context of Extractive Operations

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