Rocky Mountain High: Economic Privilege in Campaigns Against Multinational Mining in the 1970s

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• Megan Black (MIT)
• Tuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:00
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This paper will analyze the strategies mobilized by the ski town of Crested Butte, Colorado against the multinational firm AMAX in its bid to open a molybdenum mine. These duelling campaigns for and against mining were powerfully shaped by histories of U.S. settler colonialism and transformations in the international economic order.

This talk is part of the History and Economics Seminar series.

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