Toxic endurance and social becoming: Environmentalism in the shadows of Andean extraction

Gilfoy, Kieran

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2021.100930

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“…Desires for (and frustrations over) professional employment continued even in communities such as Ccancallyo where restorative extraction took hold during the final months of my fieldwork. Furthermore, the proliferation of artisanal mines exacerbated environmental degradation in the region and posited uncomfortable toxic trade‐offs for individuals in search of the better life (Gilfoy 2022a). Yet, despite all of this, communities had burrowed not only into mountains but into the “folds” of historical domination (Ghosh 2006, 503) where potentially Indigenous subjects are most likely to be found.…”

Section: The Politics and Implicitness Of Restorative Extractionmentioning

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Global ideals and restorative extraction: Negotiated Indigeneity on the margins of a Peruvian copper mine

Gilfoy

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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This article elucidates the unintended outcomes produced by extractive industries and Indigenous activism in eastern Apurímac, Peru. The article documents the rise and fall of an identity-based organization in the shadow of the Bambas copper mine using the concept of emergence amid Indigenous spaces to interpret the negotiated products of ideals and realities. I show how notions of historical debt and desires for "a better life" undergird the lived experience of Cotabamban peoples, placing particular demands upon any Indigenous awakening. Over time, creative alterations to activist endeavors shift from a right to culture toward a right to action, infusing artisanal mining ventures with moral credibility. Restorative extraction becomes an Indigenous practice of redress, tackling realities of marginalization and national reciprocity that have been exacerbated by corporate development. Rather than articulating an acceptable identity, restorative extraction temporarily redeems prolonged states of exclusion pertinent for certain potentially Indigenous communities enmeshed in resource booms.

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Global ideals and restorative extraction: Negotiated Indigeneity on the margins of a Peruvian copper mine

Gilfoy

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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“…Las acciones ejecutadas por el ser humano generan impactos ambientales, por lo tanto, son de carácter perjudicial, y depende del grado de magnitud y permanencia. A medida que la minería industrial ha expandido sus fronteras globales, también lo han hecho las críticas a los impactos ambientales en las poblaciones indígenas y campesinas aisladas, la minería contemporánea envuelve regiones empobrecidas y olvidadas en promesas de nuevos y brillantes futuros, animados por las promesas del discurso del desarrollo extractivo (Gilfoy, 2021). En el Perú, el conflicto social está aumentando debido a la contaminación ambiental provocada por la industria minera, y básicamente el agua.…”

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Evaluación de riesgo ambiental por concentración de plomo y mercurio en el área de influencia minera Coricancha distrito Chosica

2022

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La investigación permitió evaluar los riesgos ambientales de las concentraciones de plomo y mercurio del área minera Coricancha. Los métodos utilizados fueron descriptivos, se evaluaron tres indicadores de la muestra para el suelo y dos indicadores de la muestra para agua todos los resultados derivados estuvieron contrastados con los Estándares de Calidad Ambiental. Se usaron métodos analíticos EPA para analizar muestras y determinar la identidad y concentración de un constituyente específico de las muestras. Los resultados obtenidos para el suelo indica que posee Mercurio con valores mínimos < 0,02 mg/Kg y para Plomo valores entre 77,19-96.01 mg/Kg, los resultados obtenidos para el agua indica que posee Mercurio con valores mínimos < 0,001 mg/L y para Plomo valores mínimos < 0,006 mg/L., todos los valores encontrados estaban adentro de los niveles permisibles determinados por los parámetros de calidad de suelo para uso industrial.

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Uncertain transitions: Affects in the coal supply chain from Colombia to Poland

Carmona,

Dąbkowska

2024

Energy Research & Social Science

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Toxic endurance and social becoming: Environmentalism in the shadows of Andean extraction

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Global ideals and restorative extraction: Negotiated Indigeneity on the margins of a Peruvian copper mine

Global ideals and restorative extraction: Negotiated Indigeneity on the margins of a Peruvian copper mine

Evaluación de riesgo ambiental por concentración de plomo y mercurio en el área de influencia minera Coricancha distrito Chosica

Uncertain transitions: Affects in the coal supply chain from Colombia to Poland

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