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SUMMARY:Gender and Extractivism in Plurinational States – An intersectio
 nal approach to mining in Bolivia and Ecuador - Isabella M. Radhuber\, Uni
 versity of Vienna (Austria)
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CONTACT:Peadar Brehony
DESCRIPTION:Co-authored with Marie Jasser\n\nHighly diverse societies in t
 he Andes clearly display the disproportionate impact of mining activities 
 on women. Two cases – Bolivia's biggest tin mine (Posokoni Mountain) in 
 the Andean mountain plateau municipality Huanuni and Ecuador's emerging co
 pper exploitation in the megadiverse cloud forest region of Intag – show
  that specific impacts on women reinforce existing inequalities along pove
 rty\, ethnicity and rural-urban divisions. In this paper\, we connect mode
 rn/colonial insights and recent contributions on extractivism within the b
 roader field of feminist political ecology. We trace how gender-sensitive 
 power relations in both places ultimately render the co-existence of varie
 gated forms of living and production impossible. We find that a 'legal shi
 elding of mining companies' leads to the suspension of democratic and fund
 amental rights of populations in affected territories. The consequences of
  'dispossession by contamination' prove to be particular severe for indige
 nous-peasant-popular women as these consequences thwart subsistence activi
 ties that (in combination with housework activities) are carried out mainl
 y by women. The fact that reproduction in these territories has been rende
 red impossible is being contested by increasingly female-led activism. Thi
 s comparative case study sheds light on the gendered and variegated dynami
 cs of extractivism in socio-environmental settings of high diversity.  
LOCATION:Hardy Building 101 (first floor)\, Downing Site\, Cambridge
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