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dc.contributor.advisorRasch, Elisabet
dc.contributor.authorJoles, D.A.
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-08T18:00:55Z
dc.date.available2013-01-08
dc.date.available2013-01-08T18:00:55Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/12376
dc.description.abstractSince the 1970’s, the social structure of rural Cajamarca is characterized by agricultural modes of production and a powerful regional social movement; the ronda campesinas. From the 1990s onwards, within the region of Cajamarca, huge multinational mining industries became the driving force of change and development. At a community and regional level, the implementation of the mining industry caused a flood of contradictions and transformations in the access to resources and subsequently production of livelihood. Recent regional history shows how rural communities participated in numerous acts of collective action, supported by the ronda campesina movement, to address experienced dispossessions, of particularly land and water. Through a conflict resolution trajectory, facilitated by the World Banks’ Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, both local communities as the mining industry obtained a mutual interest in preserving ‘good relations’, respectively in the pursuit of compensation for the loss in access to natural capitals and to maintain a social license to operate. Thus, the current social structure is an outcome of the continuous display of agential capacities within the pre-existing and entering structure. The occupation and contamination of land and water will continue to diminish agricultural possibilities after mining companies left. Currently communities are able to petition for compensation measures but mining is clearly not a sustainable path for rural development
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
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dc.language.isoen
dc.titleInternational Gold Mining, Rondas Campesinas, and the Transformation of Structure in Rural Cajamarca, Peru.
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Sciencdes & Literature and Cultural Studies
dc.subject.keywordsLatin America & Caribbean
dc.subject.courseuuLatin American and Caribbean Studies


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