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Description

1. xvi, 232 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

1. "In this insightful book on relationships between multinational mining companies and local communities, Maria-Therese Gustafsson shines new light on local struggles to deepen democracy and redefine the terms of international corporate investment in the Peruvian Andes." -Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University, USA "This book is a must-read for academics and students, as well as potential investors in natural resources, governmental officials and activists that seek to avoid not only the irruption of conflicts, but also the ongoing destruction of communities in Latin America and other resource-rich regions." -Benedicte Bull, University of Oslo, Norway "By comparing two cases of resistance to the expansion of mining in Peru, the author convincingly points at the relations between communities' organizational strengths, big corporations' governance strategies and state institutions' interventions." -Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy This book explores how different corporate governance strategies affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an area's population is faced with the arrival of the extraction industry. Drawing on ethnographic research into Peruvian mining localities, the author analyses a series of relationships which are characterized by confrontations, clientelism, demobilization and strategic collaboration. By presenting a detailed account of micro practices and showing how these processes are interpreted by different groups, Gustafsson offers a refined understanding of the multiple layers and informal workings of power between transnational corporations and local communities.

Series statement

1. Development, Justice and Citizenship

Uniform title

1. Development, justice and citizenship.

Subject

1. International business enterprises > Public relations > Peru
2. Social movements > Peru
3. Mineral industries > Peru
4. Mineral industries
5. Social movements
6. Multinationales Unternehmen
7. Bergbau
8. Peru
9. Peru

Contents

1. Peasant mobilization and the expansion of mining in Peru -- Demands for rights and confrontations in the Rio Blanco Project -- Struggles to open up new political spaces to control natural resources -- Demands for services and demobilization in the Bambas Project -- The fragmented struggle for services.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.