Fighting For Andean Resources

Author : Vladimir R. Gil Ramón
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816530717

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Fighting for Andean Resources by Vladimir R. Gil Ramón Pdf

Mining investment in Peru has been presented as necessary for national progress; however, it also has brought socioenvironmental costs, left unfulfilled hopes for development, and has become a principal source of confrontation and conflict. Fighting for Andean Resources focuses on the competing agendas for mining benefits and the battles over their impact on proximate communities in the recent expansion of the Peruvian mining frontier. The book complements renewed scrutiny of how globalization nurtures not solely antagonism but also negotiation and participation. Having mastered an intimate knowledge of Peru, Vladimir R. Gil Ramón insightfully documents how social technologies of power are applied through social technical protocols of accountability invoked in defense of nature and vulnerable livelihoods. Although analyses point to improvements in human well-being, a political and technical debate has yet to occur in practice that would define what such improvements would be, the best way to achieve and measure them, and how to integrate dimensions such as sustainability and equity. Many confrontations stem from frustrated expectations, environmental impacts, and the virtual absence of state apparatus in the locations where new projects emerged. This book presents a multifaceted perspective on the processes of representation, the strategies in conflicts and negotiations of development and nature management, and the underlying political actions in sites affected by mining.

Author : Teresa A. Velásquez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816544738

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Pachamama Politics by Teresa A. Velásquez Pdf

Pachamama Politics examines how campesinos came to defend their community water sources from gold mining upstream and explains why Ecuador's "pink tide" government came under fire by Indigenous and environmental rights activists.

Author : William F. Sater
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803207592

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Andean Tragedy by William F. Sater Pdf

The year 1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. The conflict saw Chile's and Peru's armored warships vying for control of sea lanes and included one of the first examples of the use of naval torpedoes.

Author : Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226113876

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Fighting Like a Community by Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld Pdf

The indigenous population of the Ecuadorian Andes made substantial political gains during the 1990s in the wake of a dynamic wave of local activism. The movement renegotiated land development laws, elected indigenous candidates to national office, and successfully fought for the constitutional redefinition of Ecuador as a nation of many cultures. Fighting Like a Community argues that these remarkable achievements paradoxically grew out of the deep differences—in language, class, education, and location—that began to divide native society in the 1960s. Drawing on fifteen years of fieldwork, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld explores these differences and the conflicts they engendered in a variety of communities. From protestors confronting the military during a national strike to a migrant family fighting to get a relative released from prison, Colloredo-Mansfeld recounts dramatic events and private struggles alike to demonstrate how indigenous power in Ecuador is energized by disagreements over values and priorities, eloquently contending that the plurality of Andean communities, not their unity, has been the key to their political success.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991-07
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951P001858871

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US Department of State Dispatch by Anonim Pdf

Contains a diverse compilation of major speeches, congressional testimony, policy statements, fact sheets, and other foreign policy information from the State Dept.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drug control
ISBN : PSU:000015625540

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U.S. Government Anti-narcotics Activities in the Andean Region of South America by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Pdf

Author : Carmen Soliz,Rossana Barragán
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826366405

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The Struggle for Natural Resources by Carmen Soliz,Rossana Barragán Pdf

The Struggle for Natural Resources traces the troubled history of Bolivia's land and commodity disputes across five centuries, combining local, regional, national, and transnational scales. Enriched by the extractivism and commodity frontiers approaches to world history, the book treats Bolivia's political struggles over natural resources as long-term processes that outlast immediate political events. Exploration of the Bolivian case invites dialogue and comparison with other parts of the world, particularly regions and countries of the so-called Global South. The book begins by examining three Bolivian resources at the center of political dispute since the early colonial period, namely land, water, and minerals. Carmen Soliz, Rossana Barragán, and Sarah Hines show that, as in the colonial and early republican past, these resources have remained the focus of political contention to the present day. Until the end of the nineteenth century, Bolivia's battle over natural resources was primarily concentrated in the highlands and inter-Andean valleys. Beginning in the 1860s, the bicycle and soon the automobile industries triggered demand for natural rubber found in the heart of the Amazon. José Orsag analyzes the impact of this extractive economy at the turn of the twentieth century. The book concludes by examining two resources that are central to understanding the last century of Bolivia's history. Kevin Young examines the fraught business of hydrocarbons, and Thomas Grisaffi analyzes the coca/cocaine circuit. Each chapter studies the social dynamics and political conflicts that shaped the processes of extraction, exchange, and ownership of each of these resources

Author : Eric Hirsch
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503630956

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Acts of Growth by Eric Hirsch Pdf

Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means—and importantly how it feels. Hirsch proposes an analysis of boom-time capitalism that starts not from considerations of poverty, but from the premise that Peru is wealthy. He situates his work in a network of villages near new mining sites, agricultural export markets, and tourist attractions, where Peruvian prosperity appears tantalizingly close, yet just out of reach. This book centers on small-scale development investments working to transform villagers into Indigenous entrepreneurs ready to capitalize on Peru's new national brand and access the constantly deferred promise of national growth. That meant identifying as Indigenous, where few actively did so; identifying as an entrepreneur, in a place where single-minded devotion to a business went against the tendency to diversify income sources; and identifying every dimension of one's daily life as a resource, despite the unwelcome intimacy this required. Theorizing growth as an affective project that requires constant physical and emotional labor, Acts of Growth follows a diverse group of Andean residents through the exhausting work of making an economy grow.

Author : Bruce G. Trigger,Wilcomb E. Washburn,Richard E. W. Adams,Frank Salomon,Stuart B. Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0521630754

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The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas by Bruce G. Trigger,Wilcomb E. Washburn,Richard E. W. Adams,Frank Salomon,Stuart B. Schwartz Pdf

Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.

Author : Lenore Manderson,Nancy J. Burke,Ayo Wahlberg
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800080232

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Viral Loads by Lenore Manderson,Nancy J. Burke,Ayo Wahlberg Pdf

Drawing upon the empirical scholarship and research expertise of contributors from all settled continents and from diverse life settings and economies, Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto people’s lived realities in countries around the world. A crosscutting theme pertains to how social unevenness and gross economic disparities are shaping global and local responses to the pandemic, and illustrate the effects of both the virus and efforts to contain it in ways that amplify these inequalities. At the same time, the contributions highlight the nature of contemporary social life, including virtual communication, the nature of communities, neoliberalism and contemporary political economies, and the shifting nature of nation states and the role of government. Over half of the world’s population has been affected by restrictions of movement, with physical distancing requirements and self-isolation recommendations impacting profoundly on everyday life but also on the economy, resulting also, in turn, with dramatic shifts in the economy and in mass unemployment. By reflecting on how the pandemic has interrupted daily lives, state infrastructures and healthcare systems, the contributing authors in this volume mobilise anthropological theories and concepts to locate the pandemic in a highly connected and exceedingly unequal world. The book is ambitious in its scope – spanning the entire globe – and daring in its insistence that medical anthropology must be a part of the growing calls to build a new world.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : United States
ISBN : SRLF:AA0005242920

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Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1993 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112020493141

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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel W. Christman,Daniel William Christman,John Gaines Heimann,Julia Sweig
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0876093403

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Andes 2020 by Daniel W. Christman,Daniel William Christman,John Gaines Heimann,Julia Sweig Pdf

"The Center for Preventive Action, a conflict prevention initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations, established the Andes 2020 Preventive Action Commission to develop concrete, pragmatic recommendations to broaden and strengthen U.S., international, and local engagement and coordination in the region, with an eye toward strategies that will help prevent the outbreak of major conflict and mitigate current levels of violence." --Book Jacket.

Author : Richard L. Knopf
Publisher : SP Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1561719595

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Illusion Or Victory by Richard L. Knopf Pdf

Illusion or Victory reveals the details of the U.S. Government's secret war against the international drug cartels and narco-terriorists. Readers learn the true story of the U.S. military's involvement in fighting the organized drug trade through the author's many revelations of secret military operations around the world.

Author : Williamson Murray,Peter R. Mansoor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107026087

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Hybrid Warfare by Williamson Murray,Peter R. Mansoor Pdf

Hybrid warfare has been an integral part of the historical landscape since the ancient world, but only recently have analysts - incorrectly - categorised these conflicts as unique. Great powers throughout history have confronted opponents who used a combination of regular and irregular forces to negate the advantage of the great powers' superior conventional military strength. As this study shows, hybrid wars are labour-intensive and long-term affairs; they are difficult struggles that defy the domestic logic of opinion polls and election cycles. Hybrid wars are also the most likely conflicts of the twenty-first century, as competitors use hybrid forces to wear down America's military capabilities in extended campaigns of exhaustion. Nine historical examples of hybrid warfare, from ancient Rome to the modern world, provide readers with context by clarifying the various aspects of conflicts and examining how great powers have dealt with them in the past.