The making of the Amazonian subject: state formation and indigenous mobilization in lowland Peru

Pinedo, Danny

doi:10.1080/17442222.2016.1270537

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“…This is caused by 'the state's aggressive hydrocarbon and wider development agenda … categorised as a "selva [rainforest] hydrocarbon and development vision" (SHDV)' (Gonzalez 2018b, p.657). The SHDV seeks to implement Loreton oil exploitation at the deliberate expense and dispossession of its indigenous peoples, whose own power and rights in these spaces is weaker than other citizens and actors, like the state or extractive industries (Cardozo 2011;Pinedo 2017). A similar situation is seen in other Latin American contexts where decisions surrounding land and mineral use adhere to and promote a neoliberal or rentier capitalist development discourse (Anthias and Radcliffe 2015; Wilson and Bayón 2017).…”

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Making “a racket” but does anybody care? A study of environmental justice access and recognition through the political ecology of voice

Gonzalez

2019

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There is now growing support for the United Nations to explicitly recognise the human right to a healthy environment, and to strengthen the fight for environmental justice. One key consideration is to explore how accessible environmental justice is for citizens in low-and middle-income countries, who are adversely affected by pollution problems. This article will evaluate citizen access to environmental justice through the state via a case-study of Peru. To do so, the article utilises the political ecology of voice (PEV) theoretical framework. PEV can be defined as the study of several economic, political, social, and geographical factors over a specific temporal period, and their impact upon the use of voice by different stakeholders. The research was centred on two communities affected by oil pollution events within Peru's Loreto Region. It will show that Loreto's rural population are subjected to "shadow environmental citizenship", in which they have only peripheral access to environmental justice through the state, which also does not adequately recognise or support their right to seek redress. This in turn, forces people to seek access and recognition of environmental justice through more unorthodox or radical forms of action, or via the support of non-state actors.

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Making “a racket” but does anybody care? A study of environmental justice access and recognition through the political ecology of voice

Gonzalez

2019

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“…Comunidades were banned from using Amarakaeri for livelihood practices they had been carrying out before the Reserve's establishment, while hydrocarbon companies did not follow the same restrictions (Álvarez et al, 2008). Hunt Oil divided the Indigenous movement by strategically supporting some Comunidades with money and projects (Pinedo, 2017).…”

Section: Amarakaeri Communal Reservementioning

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Between Co‐Management and Responsibilisation: Comparative Perspectives from Two Reservas Comunales in the Peruvian Amazon

Sarmiento Barletti,

Rolando

2024

Bull Latin American Res

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Peru introduced co‐managed Reservas Comunales (Communal Reserves) as an alternative to the ‘fortress conservation’ approach that characterises other protected areas where Indigenous Peoples tend to be excluded from both the physical space and managerial aspects of conservation regimes. Although these Reserves are lauded internationally as supporting Indigenous Peoples' self‐determination, this article examines the challenges that arise from the cogestión (co‐management) regime for Indigenous organisations and communities. Focusing on the ‘responsibilisation’ relationships created in the co‐management of two Communal Reserves, the article reflects on the different trajectories of this transfer of responsibilities, and the processes through which Indigenous co‐management organisations are expected to adopt the government's conservation goals.

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“…Clans are also exogamous, and so the male members of a clan should take their wives from other clans. A survey I conducted in Puerto Luz indicated that this norm is still followed by the Arakbut (Pinedo, 2014). Although clans are not localized but dispersed among the various residence groups of the settlement, they provide a source of collective identity and solidarity to their members.…”

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“…Because of the solidarity bonds they create, compadrazgo ties are used as a social resource to gain access to land, money, and other scarce resources. This is why the people who are chosen as compadres tend to be of higher socioeconomic status (Pinedo, 2014). Thus, while there are compadrazgo relations between Arakbut, the preference is to choose outsiders as compadres since they have more economic resources and prestige.…”

Section: Arakbut Socialitymentioning

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“…Conflicts arising from Arakbut relations with invitados were especially difficult to solve. The reason of this was that regalías had become a key source of cash, especially since neoliberal policies implemented by Alberto Fujimori's administration (1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001) closed the Banco Minero and suspended state support to small-scale miners (Pinedo, 2017). Regalías offer Arakbut families the chance to rapidly access money that may supplement the meager income they earn through low-productivity artisanal gold mining.…”

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Communities make communities: Comunidades nativas and gold mining among the Arakbut of Peruvian Amazonia

Pinedo

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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This article examines the role of organization into comunidades nativas (native communities) in the construction of a sense of community among Arakbut settlements of southeastern Peruvian Amazon. Based on ethnographic material, the article argues that communal activities furthered by the comunidad nativa increases social interaction among the settlements’ loosely connected and relatively dispersed kin‐based groups, forging a sense of belonging on which a broader collective identity and social bonds are built. Leasing Arakbut lands to mining settlers, however, has become a main source of internal conflict that threatens to split settlements. But rather than leading to settlement fissioning, this internal conflict encourages the Arakbut to use communal assemblies and fiestas to restore social relations and solidarity, thus strengthening the community identity. Therefore, the sense of community arises not only out of cooperative and cohesive social relations, but also out of conflictive and competitive ones.

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The making of the Amazonian subject: state formation and indigenous mobilization in lowland Peru

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

Making “a racket” but does anybody care? A study of environmental justice access and recognition through the political ecology of voice

Making “a racket” but does anybody care? A study of environmental justice access and recognition through the political ecology of voice

Between Co‐Management and Responsibilisation: Comparative Perspectives from Two Reservas Comunales in the Peruvian Amazon

Communities make communities: Comunidades nativas and gold mining among the Arakbut of Peruvian Amazonia

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