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Unearthing conflict : corporate mining, activism, and expertise in Peru / Fabiana Li.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Fabiana, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mineral industries--Social aspects--Peru.
- Mineral industries.
- Mineral industries--Political aspects--Peru.
- Mineral industries--Economic aspects--Peru.
- Mineral industries--Environmental aspects--Peru.
- Mines and mineral resources--Peru.
- Mines and mineral resources.
- Social conflict--Peru.
- Social conflict.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fabiana Li examines the politics surrounding the rapid growth of mining in the Peruvian Andes, arguing that anti-mining protests are not only about mining's negative environmental impacts, but about the legitimization of contested forms of knowledge.
- Contents:
- A mining country
- Mining past and present
- Toxic legacies, nascent activism
- Mega-mining and emergent conflicts
- Water and life
- The hydrology of a sacred mountain
- Irrigation and contested equivalences
- Activism and expertise
- Stepping outside the document
- Expanding frontiers of extraction.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822358312
- 082235831X
- 9780822375869
- 0822375869
- OCLC:
- 1144916020
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