3. Producción
Browse
6 results
Search Results
- Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Regional development in Amazonas, Peru: science-society interactions for sustainability(SAGE Publishing, 2020-09-16)Scientific-technological knowledge maintains the anthropocentric power-pattern and exploitive attitude with regard to nature, but sustainability science asks for an integration of territorial and decontextualized knowledge systems. Visual participatory methodologies involving diverse local stakeholder facilitate dialogue on environmental and sustainability issues. Inspired by visual ethnography and mediated discourse analysis, the present article uses semiological analysis to reconstruct the depicted narratives on the nature-society system in drawings representing “regional development”. The drawings were elaborated in a series of participatory workshops involving university faculty and students, regional government and non-governmental organizations and farmers from local communities in the northern Amazonian region of Peru. The analysis reveals a prevailing anthropo and technology centered, “colonial” conception of the nature-society system, and a marginalization of alternative narratives. Beyond confirming the potential for visual participatory methods to enhance multi-stakeholder dialogue, it demonstrates how semiological analysis can be used to deepen an understanding of the cultural, organizational and technological constraints facing critical, trans-disciplinary efforts to decolonize the technology-centered, anthropocentric mainstream worldview of nature and society. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Monitoreos hídricos comunitarios: conocimientos locales como defensa territorial y ambiental en Argentina, Perú y Colombia(Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador, 2020-12-10)En Latinoamérica, en el contexto de la expansión de proyectos de minería a gran escala y dadas sus consecuencias socioambientales y territoriales, se han implementado diversos monitoreos del agua (institucionales y empresariales) basados en conocimientos técnicos que desvalorizan otros conocimientos. Por lo tanto, han emergido los monitoreos hídricos comunitarios (MHC), una estrategia para posicionar las concepciones y los conocimientos locales como una herramienta política, con la que se visibiliza y cuestiona los efectos de la minería en el agua. De igual manera, las comunidades han establecido redes con la academia, las ONG y las organizaciones sociales, y así propiciar el diálogo entre sus conocimientos y los conocimientos técnicos, con el fin de generar contranarrativas frente a los indicadores e informes institucionales o empresariales sobre la calidad del agua, y como estrategia de defensa territorial frente a la minería. Nos centramos en la investigación realizada entre 2018 y 2020 en Argentina (Veladero), Perú (Antapaccay-Expansión Tintaya) y Colombia (Cerrejón), en donde las comunidades locales han desarrollado MHC, basados en la producción y sistematización de sus conocimientos en torno al agua. Analizamos las asimetrías del conocimiento en contextos de desigualdad socioambiental y planteamos la necesidad de una discusión amplia que incluya los conocimientos locales y, por tanto, formas diversas de comprender, conocer y relacionarse con el agua y lo territorial de manera integral. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Mining and urbanization: ways of generating water insecurity in Andean territories(Elsevier, 2021-09-01)Mining has historically facilitated urban growth, and water access in towns and cities has become one of the most prevalent and divisive of the unresolved problems surrounding mining. Urban areas in the vicinity of large-scale mining ventures endure chronic water shortages, and these areas often turn to remote water sources to meet their needs even partially. This article investigates how urbanization processes generated by mining developments have impacted water insecurity in Andean territories. To this end, we conduct a comparative analysis of water provision via two case studies that represent different urbanization models stemming from mining in Andean territories: the concentrated model observed in the Espinar case in Peru and the scattered model witnessed in Jáchal case in Argentina. Drawing on the water security concept, which considers the ways in which water is articulated, we argue that current mining developments generate urbanization processes that, despite the different models, reinforce water insecurity through the dimensions of power, culture, and visions of development. We follow a contextualized comparative case study method. Our analysis of the case studies draws on data collected through ethnographic instruments such as in-depth and semi-structured interviews, as well as public databases. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Institutional innovations in mining contexts: the experience of community water monitoring in Argentina and Peru(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2021-12-01)En el contexto de transformaciones institucionales que devino a partir de la expansin minera en Amrica Latina, este artculo explora una innovacin institucional de carcter social: los monitoreos hdricos comunitarios (MHC). Desde un enfoque cualitativo se aborda la emergencia de experiencias alternativas de control ambiental de la minera en Argentina y Per. El trabajo abona al debate sobre los procesos de cambio institucional en contextos mineros, pero se focaliza en un aspecto poco explorado: las innovaciones institucionales de carcter social y su relacin con la falta de legitimidad de las entidades estatales de control ambiental. El anlisis exhibe que mediante un proceso de repolitizacin de instrumentos prexistentes los actores comunitarios disean e implementan esquemas alternativos de control am- - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The commitment to infrastructure: Public investment and the reproduction of water scarcity in contexts of large mining in Peru and Colombia(Universidad Catolica del Norte, 2022-01-01)Public and private policies typically consider the construction of infrastructure the most appropriate response to the problems of water scarcity and water disputes. However, infrastructure in itself not always is the solution. In this context we have the following questions: What are the logics behind the construction and implementation of water infrastructure? Why water infrastructures are not alone a solution to water stress and scarcity? How does infrastructure construction reduce or deepen inequalities in access to water? This article answers these questions by arguing that water infrastructures respond to technical-political projects of territorial control and mining expansion located in areas of mining influence, rather than aiming to solve water access and supply problems. In doing so, they ended up deepening inequalities in local water access. This article compares infrastructures constructed in the context of large-scale mining projects in Espinar, Peru and La Guajira, Colombia. The information presented was collected following qualitative methods (semi-structured interviews and situated ethnographies). Likewise, the article systematizes secondary quantitative and qualitative data provided by government institutions related to water and mining, and the Environmental Impact Studies and web publications regarding the Tintaya-Antapaccay and Cerrejón mining projects. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The surge for local innovative institutions for transformation: Community-based monitoring in the Andes(Cambridge University Press, 2024-10-02)Non-technical summary. There is abundant research about the impacts that large-scale mining produces on territories to the detriment of their social and environmental sustainability. However, during our research in Chile and Peru, we also identified local transformative initiatives that pursue sustainable development by proposing alternatives to how the socio-ecological impacts of natural resource extraction are produced and distributed throughout society. Specifically, we ask the question: How do local communities in Chile and Peru that are affected by mining activities engage in community-based environmental monitoring (CBEM)? Technical summary. By examining how local communities in Chile and Peru engage in community environmental monitoring, this paper argues that local political organisation and institutional innovations are crucial for the emergence of transformations towards sustainability. Local political organisation and mobilisation can create a window of opportunity for discussion about extractive activities and their impacts, as well as possible proposals for alternatives. Institutional innovations triggered by local political work can lead to the implementation of such initiatives. Our findings are based on qualitative case studies of CBEM in Chile and Peru, in areas with high levels of environmental degradation due to mining. In Chile we analysed a case of community air monitoring in a copper processing area, and in Peru a case of community water monitoring in a mining area. Drawing on debates on social transformation and political ecology theory, this study aims to show CBEM promotes changes towards a more democratic and preventive environmental governance, and encourages the recognition of environmental injustices. Social media summary. This paper analyses how local communities in Chile and Peru engage in community environmental monitoring in areas affected by the presence of extractive industries. We identified local transformative initiatives that pursue sustainable development by proposing alternatives to how the socio-environmental impacts of natural resource extraction are produced and distributed in society. Our findings are based on qualitative case studies of community-based air and water monitoring in extractive areas in Chile and Peru.