The Gandarela Mountain Range and the “resistance space” against iron ore mining threat: a focus on the contrapositions

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Résister à l'exploitation : une histoire de l'opposition péruvienne aux transnationales minières de 1901 à nos jours

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La minería transnacional y territorios posnacionales : un nuevo sentido histórico para Santa María, Catamarca

Este artículo versa sobre la relación entre la minería transnacional y la cuestión de la territorialidad vinculada a esta actividad. A medida que se abren fronteras, las relaciones sociales se vuelven más desterritorializadas, crece la búsqueda de las raíces culturales y nuevas experiencias locales se generan en respuesta a la emergencia de territorios posnacionales (Appadurai, 1999). Estas experiencias definen un nuevo sentido histórico para el oeste catamarqueño y Santa María – provincia de Catamarca, Argentina-, donde los sujetos sociales locales - situados históricamente en contextos de periferia del capitalismo global y nacional- mediatizan, interpelan y desnaturalizan algunas de las transformaciones espacio-temporales producidas a partir de la mega- minería en las últimas décadas, bajo un paradigma extractivista. Por su parte, los sujetos locales examinan su propia historia y analiza las conflictividades en torno a los recursos naturales, y en respuesta, constituyen territorios en red no articulados a los flujos globales del capital sino a espacios de resistencia.

Producción ovina extensiva en la Patagonia Austral : El caso de la zona centro de Santa Cruz

El propósito del artículo consiste en analizar la meseta central de Santa Cruz en sus aspectos socioproductivos. El objetivo de la investigación, de la cual este trabajo es una elaboración parcial, se orienta a establecer la viabilidad del modelo vigente en la región -ovino extensivo-, así como las posibilidades de que las prácticas asociativas se constituyan en el eje articulador de un relanzamiento productivo. Aquí presentamos un primer análisis socioeconómico y productivo con la finalidad de definir el escenario en el que actualmente se lleva adelante la producción ovina extensiva. Incluimos una descripción de los nuevos actores que actualmente operan en el centro-norte de la provincia y, especialmente en nuestra área de estudio, destacándose entre ellos las empresas mineras transnacionales.

Producción ovina extensiva en la Patagonia Austral : El caso de la zona centro de Santa Cruz

El propósito del artículo consiste en analizar la meseta central de Santa Cruz en sus aspectos socioproductivos. El objetivo de la investigación, de la cual este trabajo es una elaboración parcial, se orienta a establecer la viabilidad del modelo vigente en la región -ovino extensivo-, así como las posibilidades de que las prácticas asociativas se constituyan en el eje articulador de un relanzamiento productivo. Aquí presentamos un primer análisis socioeconómico y productivo con la finalidad de definir el escenario en el que actualmente se lleva adelante la producción ovina extensiva. Incluimos una descripción de los nuevos actores que actualmente operan en el centro-norte de la provincia y, especialmente en nuestra área de estudio, destacándose entre ellos las empresas mineras transnacionales.

Producción ovina extensiva en la Patagonia Austral : El caso de la zona centro de Santa Cruz

El propósito del artículo consiste en analizar la meseta central de Santa Cruz en sus aspectos socioproductivos. El objetivo de la investigación, de la cual este trabajo es una elaboración parcial, se orienta a establecer la viabilidad del modelo vigente en la región -ovino extensivo-, así como las posibilidades de que las prácticas asociativas se constituyan en el eje articulador de un relanzamiento productivo. Aquí presentamos un primer análisis socioeconómico y productivo con la finalidad de definir el escenario en el que actualmente se lleva adelante la producción ovina extensiva. Incluimos una descripción de los nuevos actores que actualmente operan en el centro-norte de la provincia y, especialmente en nuestra área de estudio, destacándose entre ellos las empresas mineras transnacionales.

Transnational business masculinities : media representations of gender and management in global mining corporations

This paper examines Australian media representations of the male managers of two global mining corporations, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. These organizations are transnational (or multinational) corporations with assets and/or operations across national boundaries (Dunning and Lundan, 2008), and indeed their respective Chief Executive Officers, Tom Albanese and Marius Kloppers are two of the most economically (and arguably politically) powerful in the world overseeing 37 000 and 39 000 employees internationally. With a 2008 profit of US$15.962 billion and assets of US$ 75.889 Billion BHP Billiton is the world's largest mining company. In terms of its profits and assets Rio Tinto ranks fourth in the world, but with operations in six countries (mainly Canada and Australia) and a 2008 profit of US$10.3 billion it is also emblematic of the transnational in that its ‘budget is larger than that of all but a few nations’ (Giddens, 2003, p. 62).

The role of the public sector and transnational corporations in the mining development of Latin America

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Role of the public sector and transnational corporations in the development of mining in Latin America

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The open cut: Mining, transnational corporations and local populations

The rapid expansion of the mineral and metal mining sector in the past decade was accompanied by an increase in social conflicts. What are the impacts of large-scale mining operations? What are the strategies used by transnational corporations to gain access to underground resources and legitimize their activities? And how do local and indigenous communities confronted with mining react to, negotiate with and resist these activities? This book covers 13 case studies of copper, gold, uranium and other mining operations, situated in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Switzerland. With an extensive introduction to the subject and a systematic comparison across mining operations in different phases of development and social contexts, it serves as a primer and reference book for activists, students and researchers alike.

'Mining money': science, legal technologies & working the borderlands of global finance

This paper explores the roles of science and market devices in the commodification of ‘nature’ and the configuration of flows of speculative capital. It focuses on mineral prospecting and the market for shares in ‘junior’ mining companies. In recent years these companies have expanded the reach of their exploration activities overseas, taking advantage of innovations in exploration methodologies and the liberalisation of fiscal and property regimes in ‘emerging’ mineral rich developing countries. Recent literature has explored how the reconfiguration of notions of ‘risk’ has structured the uneven distribution of rents. It is increasingly evident that neoliberal framing of environmental, political, social and economic risks has set in motion overflows that multinational mining capital had not bargained for (e.g. nationalisation, violence and political resistance). However, the role of ‘geological risk’ in animating flows of mining finance is often assumed as a ‘technical’ given. Yet geological knowledge claims, translated locally, designed to travel globally, assemble heterogeneous elements within distanciated regimes of metrology, valuation and commodity production. This paper explores how knowledge of nature is enrolled within systems of property relations, focusing on the genealogy of the knowledge practices that animate contemporary circuits of speculative mining finance. It argues that the financing of mineral prospecting mobilises pragmatic and situated forms of knowledge rather than actuarially driven calculations that promise predictability. A Canadian public enquiry struck in the wake of scandal associated with Bre-X’s prospecting activities in Indonesia is used to glean insights into the ways in which the construction of a system of public warrant to underpin financial speculation is predicated upon particular subjectivities and the outworking of everyday practices and struggles over ‘value’. Reflection on practical investments in processes of standardisation, rituals of verification and systems of accreditation reveal much about how the materiality of things shape the ways in which regional and global financial circuits are integrated, selectively transforming existing social relations and forms of knowledge production.

Extractive transnational corporations, intrastate conflict and peacemaking : frameworks and best practice

This thesis explores the role of mining and oil transnational corporations in corporate peacemaking. That is, helping to bring together warring parties in intrastate conflict to enable them to conduct peace negotiations and then, supporting these negotiations. Key concerns, and new theory, frameworks and best-practice in corporate peacemaking are proposed.

Corporate social responsibility reporting in the mining sector of Tanzania:(Lack of) government regulatory controls and NGO activism

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing debate on governance, accountability, transparency and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the mining sector of a developing country context. It examines the reporting practices of the two largest transnational gold-mining companies in Tanzania in order to draw attention to the role played by local government regulations and advocacy and campaigning by nationally organised non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with respect to promoting corporate social reporting practices. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes a political economy perspective to consider the serious implications of the neo-liberal ideologies of the global capitalist economy, as manifested in Tanzania’s regulatory framework and in NGO activism, for the corporate disclosure, accountability and responsibility of transnational companies (TNCs). A qualitative field case study methodology is adopted to locate the largely unfamiliar issues of CSR in the Tanzanian mining sector within a more familiar literature on social accounting. Data for the case study were obtained from interviews and from analysis of documents such as annual reports, social responsibility reports, newspapers, NGO reports and other publicly available documents. Findings – Analysis of interviews, press clips and NGO reports draws attention to social and environmental problems in the Tanzanian mining sector, which are arguably linked to the manifestation of the broader crisis of neo-liberal agendas. While these issues have serious impacts on local populations in the mining areas, they often remain invisible in mining companies’ social disclosures. Increasing evidence of social and environmental ills raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the regulatory frameworks, as well as the roles played by NGOs and other pressure groups in Tanzania. Practical implications – By empowering local NGOs through educational, capacity building, technological and other support, NGOs’ advocacy, campaigning and networking with other civil society groups can play a pivotal role in encouraging corporations, especially TNCs, to adopt more socially and environmentally responsible business practices and to adhere to international and local standards, which in turn may help to improve the lives of many poor people living in developing countries in general, and Tanzania in particular. Originality/value – This paper contributes insights from gold-mining activities in Tanzania to the existing literature on CSR in the mining sector. It also contributes to political economy theory by locating CSR reporting within the socio-political and regulatory context in which mining operations take place in Tanzania. It is argued that, for CSR reporting to be effective, robust regulations and enforcement and stronger political pressure must be put in place.