... mining expansion expert knowledge grassroots movements corporate science Conga ...

..., and the anthropology of mining introduces theoretical tools that will be used to examine how mining expansion brought water, toxic chemicals, agentive mountains, and other actors into the sphere of politics. The concept of equivalence serves to explore how scientific and nonscientific forms of knowledge make pollution...

... a reflection on Peru’s expanding frontiers of extraction, the techno-political and economic regimes that make it possible, and the potential of grassroots movements in reshaping national politics. mining expansion expert knowledge grassroots movements corporate science Conga ...

...Mining Past and Present Controversies over pollution in the smelter town of La Oroya have drawn public attention to the consequences of mining activity. By exploring the emergence of activism, changes in corporate practices, and the processes through which pollution comes to matter...

... This chapter focuses on the protests against the expansion of the Yanacocha gold mine into Cerro Quilish (Mount Quilish). In campaigns against the mining project, Cerro Quilish was an aquifer (a store of life-sustaining water) and an Apu (usually translated from Quechua as “sacred mountain...

...Water and Life This chapter focuses on the protests against the expansion of the Yanacocha gold mine into Cerro Quilish (Mount Quilish). In campaigns against the mining project, Cerro Quilish was an aquifer (a store of life-sustaining water) and an Apu (usually translated from Quechua...

... Controversies over pollution in the smelter town of La Oroya have drawn public attention to the consequences of mining activity. By exploring the emergence of activism, changes in corporate practices, and the processes through which pollution comes to matter, this chapter situates recent...

... The first section of the book confronts the human and environmental costs of this expansion of media and shows that it is unsustainable. Chapter 1 gives detailed accounts of the energy expended and matter condensed to make the world work as a mediated network. Beginning with an account of energy...

... During the presidential administration of Porfirio Díaz (1876–80; 1884–1911), Mexican forests became fully commodified, that is, converted from “natural landscapes” into commodities that could be bought, transformed into lumber. Railroads and mining financed by United States investors were...

... brought stunning changes to Latin America that echo across Llamojha’s life, including the massive expansion of education, a wave of rural-to-urban migration, and agrarian reform. And many things remained unchanged across the twentieth century, including Latin America’s stark divide between rich and poor...

... dynamism came with rising contradictions; expansions of slavery challenged republican ideals and disrupted sectional political balances. War with Mexico in the 1840s deepened conflicts, culminating in the devastating Civil War of the 1860s, which ended slavery and reunited a nation that became...

... Enlightenment authors like Benjamin Constant, Jeremy Bentham, Gaetano Filangieri, Montesquieu, and Jean-Baptiste Say. The Villager questioned whether Bolivia was really independent and free, painting a portrait of “misery” five years after independence: the mining industry was in ruins and the manufacturing...

...The Making of Revolutionary Forestry During the presidential administration of Porfirio Díaz (1876–80; 1884–1911), Mexican forests became fully commodified, that is, converted from “natural landscapes” into commodities that could be bought, transformed into lumber. Railroads and mining...

... multiple methods, this chapter mines and maps a three-year longitudinal dataset of over twelve hundred events, announced online by marketing start-up Black Book LA (BBLA), to sketch the dimensions of everyday dynamic forms of cultural gatherings constituting Blackness as distinctive temporal urbanisms...

... to a new solar age relates in mythic form the historical emergence of the state and its solar religious cult. It tells of the defeat and demise of earlier peoples, which are conflated symbolically as “Chullpas,” and can be read as a myth of conquest corresponding to the political expansion of the Inka...

...Revolutionary Currents The network of caciques-apoderados (cacique legal representatives) sought to defend the lands of Indian communities threatened by the expansion of haciendas after the liberal agrarian legislation of 1866 and 1874 (see part V). This network emerged in five of the nine...