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Resisting Extractivism - Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention (Hardcover)
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Resisting Extractivism - Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention (Hardcover)
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Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world
for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of
violence. Through an ethnographic and systematic comparison of four
gold mining conflicts in Peru, Resisting Extractivism presents a
vivid account of subtle and routine forms of violence, analyzing
how meaning making practices render certain types of damage and
suffering noticeable while occluding others. The book thus builds a
ground-up theory of violence—how it is framed, how it impacts
people's lived experiences, and how it can be confronted. By
excavating how the everyday interactions that underlie conflicts
are discursively concealed and highlighted, this study assists in
the prevention and transformation of violence over resource
extraction in Latin America. The book draws on a controlled,
qualitative comparison of four case studies, extensive ethnographic
research conducted over fourteen months of fieldwork, analysis of
over 900 archives and documents, and unprecedented access to more
than 250 semi structured interviews with key actors across
industry, the state, civil society, and the media. Michael Wilson
Becerril identifies, traces, and compares these dynamics to explain
how similar cases can lead to contrasting outcomes-insights that
may be usefully applied in other contexts to save lives and build
better futures.
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