Indigenous responses to mining in post-conflict Colombia : violence, repression and peaceful resistance / Diana Carolina Arbelaez Ruiz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arbelaez Ruiz, Diana Carolina, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies of the extractive industries and sustainable development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mineral industries--Social aspects--Colombia--Cauca (Department).

Mineral industries.

Indigenous peoples--Colombia--Cauca (Department).

Indigenous peoples.

Conflict management--Colombia--Cauca (Department).

Conflict management.

Paez Indians--Land tenure.

Paez Indians.

Mines and mineral resources--Colombia--History.

Mines and mineral resources.

Peace-building--Colombia.

Peace-building.

Mineral industries--Social aspects.

Colombia.

Colombia--Cauca (Department).

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

220 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024

Summary:

"This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa of North Cauca during the most recent Colombian post-agreement transition. Amid an armed conflict that has disproportionally affected and targeted the Nasa, as well as ongoing processes of dispossession and oppression, the Nasa have built a tradition of organised, peaceful resistance. This book examines the nature of their responses to mining and how this is linked to peacebuilding, with a focus on how resistance is shaped and enacted to respond to the relationship mineral extraction has with violence and peace. The work is exploratory, ethnographic and interdisciplinary in nature, sitting in the intersection between the anthropology of mining, development studies and peace and conflict studies. The author presents and analyses narratives, participant responses, and her own experiences in order to illustrate the context and interconnected processes shaping Nasa responses to mining during this transition period. The book will bring international readers closer to these intricate dynamics, where access is otherwise limited because of security, cultural, linguistic and other barriers. The book provides a novel perspective on post-conflict mining governance by focusing on the Nasa's active role in responding to mining in a post-agreement, transitional context. It highlights, and encourages engagement with, the often-overlooked role of morality in debates about nature and development. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of the extractive industries, natural resource management, conflict management and peacebuilding, Indigenous Peoples and Latin American studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Context

An immoral economy

Alternative perspectives on mining

Responses to mining at a Nasa Indigenous Sub-regional Organisation

Responses to mining in the Nasa Indigenous Resguardo of Canoas

Violence, peace and mining

Perspectives from outside the Nasa organisations

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Arbelaez Ruiz, Diana Carolina. Indigenous responses to mining in post-conflict Colombia

ISBN:

9781032129266

1032129263

9781032129297

1032129298

OCLC:

1372392757

Publisher Number:

99995525833