Matthew Himley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 135038 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matthew Himley |
| NOMBRES | Matthew |
| APELLIDO | Himley |
| FIRMA | HIMLEY M |
| AFILIACIONES | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9624-2845 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 243 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Large-scale mining, territories, and development
Unearthing extractive subjects
Work in political ecology and related fields emphasizes the importance of subjectivities to understand power relations and dynamics in nature-society interactions. In practice, though, few studies provide detailed analyses of subject formation. Moreover, the role of subjectivities has remained underexplored in the literature on resource frontiers. This special issue addresses these gaps, exploring processes of subject formation in relation to the…
Relational environmental governance
Environmental governance (EG) has become a hegemonic concept for understanding and transforming environmental decision-making processes that operate beyond the state. However, political ecologists, drawing from a diverse set of theoretical frameworks, have critiqued the concept for being malleable, vague, and apolitical, which has enabled its appropriation in ways that conceal inequality and difference, advocate techno-managerial fixes, and espou…
Resources are vexing
Resource use and management are central concerns to environmental geography scholars, who have mobilized diverse approaches to examine the making, circulation, and socioecological effects of resources and resource systems. Informed by our reading of the resource geography literature and our experiences editing The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography, we reflect on the role of resources in the study of human–environment interactions.…
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography
Mining has become such a terrain of conflict that there are multiple pressures on researchers to take sides. At one extreme, co-convening an event with a mining corporation can be interpreted by critical social science colleagues as allowing the company to use the event to claim legitimacy for its social responsibility work. At another extreme, to assume a critical position on human rights abuses at a mine site can lead the mining sector to cast …
Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography
The future lies beneath
Engaging with recent scholarship on the relations among science, resources, and territory, this paper examines the role of late-nineteenth-century mineral science in the rendering of the Peruvian underground as a knowable and actionable space. I focus on the mineralogical work of Italian-born naturalist Antonio Raimondi, identifying in it a dual dynamic of geo-political differentiation and ontological dedifferentiation. On the one hand, Raimondi …
Earth politics
Tactics of dispossession
In this article we analyse and theorise how power is exercised and subjectivities reworked to achieve and maintain socio‐political order in areas of large‐scale international extractive investment. Through a critical review of recent literature on the political ecologies of the international mining and hydrocarbon industries, we explore the strategies that firms and their allies deploy to secure and preserve the transformed relations of land and …
Extractivist Geographies
In Peru, development dreams have not infrequently been hitched to the expansion of mining and other extractive activities. While the Peruvian state pursued strategies to stimulate mining expansion during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the geography of capitalist mining that emerged mapped poorly onto the national development imaginaries of the country's elites. State-led efforts to mobilize subsurface resources in the service …
Environment and Development
The environment–development nexus has long been of interest to geographers, especially political ecologists. This entry addresses a series of themes at the core of geographical scholarship on environment and development, including the role of natural resource mobilization in development; the social and ecological contradictions of traditional, resource‐intensive development; the rise of the sustainable development paradigm; the turn to “bottom‐up…
Nature, Choice and Social Power
We are at an environmental impasse. Many blame our personal choices about the things we consume and the way we live. This is only part of the problem. Different forms of social power - political, economic and ideological - structure the choices we have available. This book analyses how we make social and environmental history and why we end up where we do. Using case studies from different environmental domains – earth and water, air and fire – N…
Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru - by Arce, Moisés
Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry
Mining for the nation
Mining History
This paper examines how the past is constructed and mobilized within contemporary Peruvian mining politics. Beginning with an exploration of tensions existing within the mining industry's relationship to its history, I analyze how mining proponents have sought to both naturalize today's mining expansion by locating it within a national history of extraction, while also working to break free from certain negative aspects of the industry's past. Th…
Monitoring the Impacts of Extraction
In Peru the recent growth of the mining economy has generated conflicts that often revolve around the environmental impacts of extraction. This paper examines a regulatory mechanism that has emerged as a response to these conflicts: participatory environmental monitoring. Focusing on a monitoring committee in the region of Ancash, I assess the committee's efforts to generate shared understandings about mining's environmental impacts, while also a…
Regularizing Extraction in Andean Peru
This paper examines the new forms of regulation and resistance accompanying the expanding extractive frontier in Andean Peru. It does so through an analysis of a process of community mobilization at the Pierina gold mine in the region of Ancash that was aimed at transforming the conditions under which area residents labored at the mine. The article documents the complex ways in which the emergence of neoliberalized forms of resource governance ha…
Cents and sustainability
Motivating sustainable growthIt is a hypothesis widely promulgated that the key to sustainability is the separation of economic growth from environmental impact.The primary message of this highly readable book is that the decoupling of economic growth from its environmental impact is not only possible, but there are many instances where it has already occurred.Furthermore, it is argued, policymakers should see spending money on sustainability ini…
Nature conservation, rural livelihoods, and territorial control in Andean Ecuador
Geographies of Environmental Governance
Environmental governance has emerged as both a key organizing concept and priority arena of research for nature-society geographers. This article offers a critical review of the burgeoning geographical literature on environmental governance, emphasizing how geographers have employed the concept to analyze how neoliberal globalization has entailed a fundamental reconfiguration of the organizational and institutional arrangements through which soci…
Tactics of dispossession
In this article we analyse and theorise how power is exercised and subjectivities reworked to achieve and maintain socio‐political order in areas of large‐scale international extractive investment. Through a critical review of recent literature on the political ecologies of the international mining and hydrocarbon industries, we explore the strategies that firms and their allies deploy to secure and preserve the transformed relations of land and …
Geographies of Environmental Governance
Environmental governance has emerged as both a key organizing concept and priority arena of research for nature-society geographers. This article offers a critical review of the burgeoning geographical literature on environmental governance, emphasizing how geographers have employed the concept to analyze how neoliberal globalization has entailed a fundamental reconfiguration of the organizational and institutional arrangements through which soci…
Earth politics
Mining History
This paper examines how the past is constructed and mobilized within contemporary Peruvian mining politics. Beginning with an exploration of tensions existing within the mining industry's relationship to its history, I analyze how mining proponents have sought to both naturalize today's mining expansion by locating it within a national history of extraction, while also working to break free from certain negative aspects of the industry's past. Th…
Regularizing Extraction in Andean Peru
This paper examines the new forms of regulation and resistance accompanying the expanding extractive frontier in Andean Peru. It does so through an analysis of a process of community mobilization at the Pierina gold mine in the region of Ancash that was aimed at transforming the conditions under which area residents labored at the mine. The article documents the complex ways in which the emergence of neoliberalized forms of resource governance ha…
Nature conservation, rural livelihoods, and territorial control in Andean Ecuador
Unearthing extractive subjects
Work in political ecology and related fields emphasizes the importance of subjectivities to understand power relations and dynamics in nature-society interactions. In practice, though, few studies provide detailed analyses of subject formation. Moreover, the role of subjectivities has remained underexplored in the literature on resource frontiers. This special issue addresses these gaps, exploring processes of subject formation in relation to the…
The future lies beneath
Engaging with recent scholarship on the relations among science, resources, and territory, this paper examines the role of late-nineteenth-century mineral science in the rendering of the Peruvian underground as a knowable and actionable space. I focus on the mineralogical work of Italian-born naturalist Antonio Raimondi, identifying in it a dual dynamic of geo-political differentiation and ontological dedifferentiation. On the one hand, Raimondi …
Monitoring the Impacts of Extraction
In Peru the recent growth of the mining economy has generated conflicts that often revolve around the environmental impacts of extraction. This paper examines a regulatory mechanism that has emerged as a response to these conflicts: participatory environmental monitoring. Focusing on a monitoring committee in the region of Ancash, I assess the committee's efforts to generate shared understandings about mining's environmental impacts, while also a…
Extractivist Geographies
In Peru, development dreams have not infrequently been hitched to the expansion of mining and other extractive activities. While the Peruvian state pursued strategies to stimulate mining expansion during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the geography of capitalist mining that emerged mapped poorly onto the national development imaginaries of the country's elites. State-led efforts to mobilize subsurface resources in the service …
Relational environmental governance
Environmental governance (EG) has become a hegemonic concept for understanding and transforming environmental decision-making processes that operate beyond the state. However, political ecologists, drawing from a diverse set of theoretical frameworks, have critiqued the concept for being malleable, vague, and apolitical, which has enabled its appropriation in ways that conceal inequality and difference, advocate techno-managerial fixes, and espou…
Resources are vexing
Resource use and management are central concerns to environmental geography scholars, who have mobilized diverse approaches to examine the making, circulation, and socioecological effects of resources and resource systems. Informed by our reading of the resource geography literature and our experiences editing The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography, we reflect on the role of resources in the study of human–environment interactions.…
Geographies of Environmental Governance
Environmental governance has emerged as both a key organizing concept and priority arena of research for nature-society geographers. This article offers a critical review of the burgeoning geographical literature on environmental governance, emphasizing how geographers have employed the concept to analyze how neoliberal globalization has entailed a fundamental reconfiguration of the organizational and institutional arrangements through which soci…
Nature conservation, rural livelihoods, and territorial control in Andean Ecuador
Cents and sustainability
Motivating sustainable growthIt is a hypothesis widely promulgated that the key to sustainability is the separation of economic growth from environmental impact.The primary message of this highly readable book is that the decoupling of economic growth from its environmental impact is not only possible, but there are many instances where it has already occurred.Furthermore, it is argued, policymakers should see spending money on sustainability ini…
Regularizing Extraction in Andean Peru
This paper examines the new forms of regulation and resistance accompanying the expanding extractive frontier in Andean Peru. It does so through an analysis of a process of community mobilization at the Pierina gold mine in the region of Ancash that was aimed at transforming the conditions under which area residents labored at the mine. The article documents the complex ways in which the emergence of neoliberalized forms of resource governance ha…
Mining for the nation
Mining History
This paper examines how the past is constructed and mobilized within contemporary Peruvian mining politics. Beginning with an exploration of tensions existing within the mining industry's relationship to its history, I analyze how mining proponents have sought to both naturalize today's mining expansion by locating it within a national history of extraction, while also working to break free from certain negative aspects of the industry's past. Th…
Monitoring the Impacts of Extraction
In Peru the recent growth of the mining economy has generated conflicts that often revolve around the environmental impacts of extraction. This paper examines a regulatory mechanism that has emerged as a response to these conflicts: participatory environmental monitoring. Focusing on a monitoring committee in the region of Ancash, I assess the committee's efforts to generate shared understandings about mining's environmental impacts, while also a…
Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry
Environment and Development
The environment–development nexus has long been of interest to geographers, especially political ecologists. This entry addresses a series of themes at the core of geographical scholarship on environment and development, including the role of natural resource mobilization in development; the social and ecological contradictions of traditional, resource‐intensive development; the rise of the sustainable development paradigm; the turn to “bottom‐up…
Nature, Choice and Social Power
We are at an environmental impasse. Many blame our personal choices about the things we consume and the way we live. This is only part of the problem. Different forms of social power - political, economic and ideological - structure the choices we have available. This book analyses how we make social and environmental history and why we end up where we do. Using case studies from different environmental domains – earth and water, air and fire – N…
Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru - by Arce, Moisés
Tactics of dispossession
In this article we analyse and theorise how power is exercised and subjectivities reworked to achieve and maintain socio‐political order in areas of large‐scale international extractive investment. Through a critical review of recent literature on the political ecologies of the international mining and hydrocarbon industries, we explore the strategies that firms and their allies deploy to secure and preserve the transformed relations of land and …
Extractivist Geographies
In Peru, development dreams have not infrequently been hitched to the expansion of mining and other extractive activities. While the Peruvian state pursued strategies to stimulate mining expansion during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the geography of capitalist mining that emerged mapped poorly onto the national development imaginaries of the country's elites. State-led efforts to mobilize subsurface resources in the service …
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography
Mining has become such a terrain of conflict that there are multiple pressures on researchers to take sides. At one extreme, co-convening an event with a mining corporation can be interpreted by critical social science colleagues as allowing the company to use the event to claim legitimacy for its social responsibility work. At another extreme, to assume a critical position on human rights abuses at a mine site can lead the mining sector to cast …
Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography
The future lies beneath
Engaging with recent scholarship on the relations among science, resources, and territory, this paper examines the role of late-nineteenth-century mineral science in the rendering of the Peruvian underground as a knowable and actionable space. I focus on the mineralogical work of Italian-born naturalist Antonio Raimondi, identifying in it a dual dynamic of geo-political differentiation and ontological dedifferentiation. On the one hand, Raimondi …
Earth politics
Resources are vexing
Resource use and management are central concerns to environmental geography scholars, who have mobilized diverse approaches to examine the making, circulation, and socioecological effects of resources and resource systems. Informed by our reading of the resource geography literature and our experiences editing The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography, we reflect on the role of resources in the study of human–environment interactions.…
Unearthing extractive subjects
Work in political ecology and related fields emphasizes the importance of subjectivities to understand power relations and dynamics in nature-society interactions. In practice, though, few studies provide detailed analyses of subject formation. Moreover, the role of subjectivities has remained underexplored in the literature on resource frontiers. This special issue addresses these gaps, exploring processes of subject formation in relation to the…
Relational environmental governance
Environmental governance (EG) has become a hegemonic concept for understanding and transforming environmental decision-making processes that operate beyond the state. However, political ecologists, drawing from a diverse set of theoretical frameworks, have critiqued the concept for being malleable, vague, and apolitical, which has enabled its appropriation in ways that conceal inequality and difference, advocate techno-managerial fixes, and espou…
Large-scale mining, territories, and development
Political science (17 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Politics (13 obras) · Mining and Resource Management (12 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (12 obras) · Economics (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Environmental ethics (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras)