Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.
Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at New York University.
Agustín Laó-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.
Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at New York University.
Agustín Laó-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.
Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at New York University.
Agustín Laó-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.
Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at New York University.
Agustín Laó-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Sonia E. Alvarez is Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Latin American Politics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History at Boston University.
Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology at New York University.
Agustín Laó-Montes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
“This is No Longer a Democracy …”: Thoughts on the Local Referendums on Mining on Peru’s Northern Frontier
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Published:May 2017
Raphael Hoetmer, 2017. "“This is No Longer a Democracy …”: Thoughts on the Local Referendums on Mining on Peru’s Northern Frontier", Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America, Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustín Laó-Montes
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This chapter explores the diverse strategies applied by farmer communities, social organizations, and NGOs in the north of Peru to resist the plans of the Río Blanco mining company to exploit minerals in their territories. Both contentious strategies of direct action and protest, such as the organization of a referendum by local municipalities and social organizations, faced rejection and criminalization by the central government. The author argues that it is not the type of action, but the insistence on the possibility of organizing life, economy, the state, and politics in an alternative way to historical extractivism that inspires this aggressive government reaction.
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