Gerardo Damonte
Biographic Data
| ID | 126571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerardo Damonte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Damonte |
| SIGNATURE | DAMONTE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0529-2124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Una Mercancía Singular: Trayectorias Del Guano De Las Islas Peruano, 1909-2023
This article explores the value trajectories of island guano, a fundamental resource in Peru’s economic and political history during the nineteenth century, highlighting its evolution over the past 114 years. The academic literature on economic and political globalization has devoted relatively little attention to guano compared with other resources such as minerals and oil. Although guano has regained importance as an organic fertilizer in both …
Adopting Technology and Community Empowerment: Environmental Community-based Monitoring in Peru and Chile
Extractive developments and local concerns about their impacts have spurred the adoption of new technologies for community-based environmental monitoring (CBEM) of extractive sites. We analyzed the socio-technical processes of technology adoption and adaptation in two CBEM implementation cases in Peru and Chile. Using a qualitative methodology, we argue that the ways social actors select, acquire, learn to use, and interpret technological measuri…
The elusive sustainable growth: The formation of institutional socio-ecological traps in Peruvian anchoveta fisheries
In Peru, government agencies have set out to regulate the profitable anchoveta fishery to increase its efficiency and sustainability. Current government regulations seek to eradicate informal and illegal fishing activities and include a differentiated set of regulations for industrial and small-scale fisheries to prevent overfishing. However, overfishing continues, threatening the reproduction of the anchoveta biomass. Moreover, informal and ille…
Trapped institutional change: The Quest for Regulating Fishing Activities in Protected Areas
The Peruvian state has implemented innovative regulations and participatory processes to establish co-management systems in marine protected areas. Following global trends, state conservation agencies seek to establish agreements with local producers to regulate fishing activities and achieve sustainable economic growth. Yet despite efforts to regulate fishing and aquaculture activities within protected areas, unregulated production continues to …
La apuesta por la infraestructura: Inversión pública y la reproducción de la escasez hídrica en contextos de gran minería en Perú y Colombia
Public and private policies typically consider the construction of infrastructure the most appropriate response to the problems of water scarcity and water disputes. However, infrastructure in itself not always is the solution. Why water infrastructure is not in itself a solution to water stress and scarcity? How does infrastructure construction deepen inequalities in access to water? This article answers these questions by arguing that water inf…
Mining and urbanization: Ways of generating water insecurity in Andean territories
Innovaciones institucionales en contextos mineros: La experiencia de monitoreos comunitarios del agua en Argentina y Perú
Revista de Ciencia Política, 41(3), 539–562
Monitoreos hídricos comunitarios: Conocimientos locales como defensa territorial y ambiental en Argentina, Perú y Colombia
En Latinoamérica, en el contexto de la expansión de proyectos de minería a gran escala y dadas sus consecuencias socioambientales y territoriales, se han implementado diversos monitoreos del agua (institucionales y empresariales) basados en conocimientos técnicos que desvalorizan otros conocimientos. Por lo tanto, han emergido los monitoreos hídricos comunitarios (MHC), una estrategia para posicionar las concepciones y los conocimientos locales c…
Presentación. Nuevos capitalismos y transformaciones territoriales en la región andina
This presentation introduces a special issue that analyzes the new territorial configurations taking shape in the Andean region under the developmentalist governments of the 21st century. The new territorial projects seek to increase the extraction of resources, the transference of crucial products on local level, and economic development. This remodeling transforms the techno-natural, cultural and political orders and creates new ‘capitalisms’ t…
Land tenure and the sustainability of pastoral production systems: A comparative analysis of the Andean Altiplano and the East African savannah
Pastoral communities are facing mounting pressure on their livelihoods due to misconceptions about pastoralism and global trends including population growth and climate change. In this context, this article seeks to establish a correlation between pastoral land tenure systems and the sustainability of pastoralism as a production system. Using a comparative approach, we develop a taxonomy to first categorise the tenure regimes - collective and ind…
Reasentamiento involuntario: Políticas y prácticas en los Andes
En las últimas décadas, se han desarrollado políticas internacionales para guiar los procesos de Reubicación Involuntaria con el fin de garantizar la reconstrucción social y mejoras en los estándares de vida de las comunidades reasentadas; sin embargo, las experiencias andinas nos muestran que, en general, estos objetivos no han sido alcanzados. ¿Cómo ajustar el diseño de políticas globales de reasentamiento involuntario para una mejor implementa…
The constitution of hydrosocial power: Agribusiness and water scarcity in Ica, Peru
During the 2000s, the Ica region, located on the Peruvian coast, gained notoriety as the main stage of what the media and politicians called the "agricultural export miracle." The exponential growth of nontraditional exports that ensued, along with the rising importance of the agroindustry in generating foreign currency, led to the emergence of an agribusiness elite as an important new social actor. Through a range of strategies aimed at consolid…
Mining Formalization at the Margins of the State: Small-scale Miners and State Governance in the Peruvian Amazon
This article analyses the Peruvian government's quest to formalize small-scale mining in the Amazon as a political process which shows how state governance problems are reproduced in the margins of the state. It asks why the central state is unable to govern mining activities in the Madre de Dios region, and examines how small-scale miners have reacted to state attempts to formalize their activities. The author argues that, through political agen…
The "Blind" State: Government Quest for Formalization and Conflict with Small-Scale Miners in the Peruvian Amazon
The Peruvian government is attempting to implement a formalization plan to deal with the chaotic expansion of small-scale mining activities in the Amazon. However, this plan has been contested, delayed and halted by local miners. Why exactly has it been so hard for the government to enforce a formalization plan in Madre de Dios? This article aims to answer this question by analysing both government efforts to establish control over the region and…
La Construcción del Poder Hídrico: Agroexportadores y Escasez de Agua Subterránea en el valle de Ica y Villacurí
El boom agroexportador en Ica ha disparado dos procesos interrelacionados: la generación de escenarios de escasez hídrica y la emergencia de un nuevo actor social en la región, el grupo agroexportador. Esto ha generado una reconfiguración de las relaciones sociales y políticas en el espacio local, donde los agroexportadores se han posicionado como el actor dominante en la gestión de los recursos hídricos subterráneos, disputando incluso los esfue…
Los dilemas del Estado peruano en la implementación y aplicación de la Ley de Consulta Previa en los Andes peruanos
La promulgación de la Ley de Consulta Previa a los Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios como mecanismo estatal de participación e inclusión social ha generado debates conceptuales sobre cómo identificar a la población indígena andina. ¿Por qué esta ley tiene dificultades para otorgar a la población andina derechos indígenas a la consulta previa? El presente artículo intenta responder a esta interrogante a partir de un recuento histórico de las formas …
Componentes de la cultura urbana en el Perú
El artículo no presenta resumen
The "Blind" State: Government Quest for Formalization and Conflict with Small-Scale Miners in the Peruvian Amazon
The Peruvian government is attempting to implement a formalization plan to deal with the chaotic expansion of small-scale mining activities in the Amazon. However, this plan has been contested, delayed and halted by local miners. Why exactly has it been so hard for the government to enforce a formalization plan in Madre de Dios? This article aims to answer this question by analysing both government efforts to establish control over the region and…
Mining and urbanization: Ways of generating water insecurity in Andean territories
Mining Formalization at the Margins of the State: Small-scale Miners and State Governance in the Peruvian Amazon
This article analyses the Peruvian government's quest to formalize small-scale mining in the Amazon as a political process which shows how state governance problems are reproduced in the margins of the state. It asks why the central state is unable to govern mining activities in the Madre de Dios region, and examines how small-scale miners have reacted to state attempts to formalize their activities. The author argues that, through political agen…
La apuesta por la infraestructura: Inversión pública y la reproducción de la escasez hídrica en contextos de gran minería en Perú y Colombia
Public and private policies typically consider the construction of infrastructure the most appropriate response to the problems of water scarcity and water disputes. However, infrastructure in itself not always is the solution. Why water infrastructure is not in itself a solution to water stress and scarcity? How does infrastructure construction deepen inequalities in access to water? This article answers these questions by arguing that water inf…
Land tenure and the sustainability of pastoral production systems: A comparative analysis of the Andean Altiplano and the East African savannah
Pastoral communities are facing mounting pressure on their livelihoods due to misconceptions about pastoralism and global trends including population growth and climate change. In this context, this article seeks to establish a correlation between pastoral land tenure systems and the sustainability of pastoralism as a production system. Using a comparative approach, we develop a taxonomy to first categorise the tenure regimes - collective and ind…
The constitution of hydrosocial power: Agribusiness and water scarcity in Ica, Peru
During the 2000s, the Ica region, located on the Peruvian coast, gained notoriety as the main stage of what the media and politicians called the "agricultural export miracle." The exponential growth of nontraditional exports that ensued, along with the rising importance of the agroindustry in generating foreign currency, led to the emergence of an agribusiness elite as an important new social actor. Through a range of strategies aimed at consolid…
La Construcción del Poder Hídrico: Agroexportadores y Escasez de Agua Subterránea en el valle de Ica y Villacurí
El boom agroexportador en Ica ha disparado dos procesos interrelacionados: la generación de escenarios de escasez hídrica y la emergencia de un nuevo actor social en la región, el grupo agroexportador. Esto ha generado una reconfiguración de las relaciones sociales y políticas en el espacio local, donde los agroexportadores se han posicionado como el actor dominante en la gestión de los recursos hídricos subterráneos, disputando incluso los esfue…
Componentes de la cultura urbana en el Perú
El artículo no presenta resumen
Los dilemas del Estado peruano en la implementación y aplicación de la Ley de Consulta Previa en los Andes peruanos
La promulgación de la Ley de Consulta Previa a los Pueblos Indígenas u Originarios como mecanismo estatal de participación e inclusión social ha generado debates conceptuales sobre cómo identificar a la población indígena andina. ¿Por qué esta ley tiene dificultades para otorgar a la población andina derechos indígenas a la consulta previa? El presente artículo intenta responder a esta interrogante a partir de un recuento histórico de las formas …
The "Blind" State: Government Quest for Formalization and Conflict with Small-Scale Miners in the Peruvian Amazon
The Peruvian government is attempting to implement a formalization plan to deal with the chaotic expansion of small-scale mining activities in the Amazon. However, this plan has been contested, delayed and halted by local miners. Why exactly has it been so hard for the government to enforce a formalization plan in Madre de Dios? This article aims to answer this question by analysing both government efforts to establish control over the region and…
La Construcción del Poder Hídrico: Agroexportadores y Escasez de Agua Subterránea en el valle de Ica y Villacurí
El boom agroexportador en Ica ha disparado dos procesos interrelacionados: la generación de escenarios de escasez hídrica y la emergencia de un nuevo actor social en la región, el grupo agroexportador. Esto ha generado una reconfiguración de las relaciones sociales y políticas en el espacio local, donde los agroexportadores se han posicionado como el actor dominante en la gestión de los recursos hídricos subterráneos, disputando incluso los esfue…
Mining Formalization at the Margins of the State: Small-scale Miners and State Governance in the Peruvian Amazon
This article analyses the Peruvian government's quest to formalize small-scale mining in the Amazon as a political process which shows how state governance problems are reproduced in the margins of the state. It asks why the central state is unable to govern mining activities in the Madre de Dios region, and examines how small-scale miners have reacted to state attempts to formalize their activities. The author argues that, through political agen…
Presentación. Nuevos capitalismos y transformaciones territoriales en la región andina
This presentation introduces a special issue that analyzes the new territorial configurations taking shape in the Andean region under the developmentalist governments of the 21st century. The new territorial projects seek to increase the extraction of resources, the transference of crucial products on local level, and economic development. This remodeling transforms the techno-natural, cultural and political orders and creates new ‘capitalisms’ t…
Land tenure and the sustainability of pastoral production systems: A comparative analysis of the Andean Altiplano and the East African savannah
Pastoral communities are facing mounting pressure on their livelihoods due to misconceptions about pastoralism and global trends including population growth and climate change. In this context, this article seeks to establish a correlation between pastoral land tenure systems and the sustainability of pastoralism as a production system. Using a comparative approach, we develop a taxonomy to first categorise the tenure regimes - collective and ind…
Reasentamiento involuntario: Políticas y prácticas en los Andes
En las últimas décadas, se han desarrollado políticas internacionales para guiar los procesos de Reubicación Involuntaria con el fin de garantizar la reconstrucción social y mejoras en los estándares de vida de las comunidades reasentadas; sin embargo, las experiencias andinas nos muestran que, en general, estos objetivos no han sido alcanzados. ¿Cómo ajustar el diseño de políticas globales de reasentamiento involuntario para una mejor implementa…
The constitution of hydrosocial power: Agribusiness and water scarcity in Ica, Peru
During the 2000s, the Ica region, located on the Peruvian coast, gained notoriety as the main stage of what the media and politicians called the "agricultural export miracle." The exponential growth of nontraditional exports that ensued, along with the rising importance of the agroindustry in generating foreign currency, led to the emergence of an agribusiness elite as an important new social actor. Through a range of strategies aimed at consolid…
Monitoreos hídricos comunitarios: Conocimientos locales como defensa territorial y ambiental en Argentina, Perú y Colombia
En Latinoamérica, en el contexto de la expansión de proyectos de minería a gran escala y dadas sus consecuencias socioambientales y territoriales, se han implementado diversos monitoreos del agua (institucionales y empresariales) basados en conocimientos técnicos que desvalorizan otros conocimientos. Por lo tanto, han emergido los monitoreos hídricos comunitarios (MHC), una estrategia para posicionar las concepciones y los conocimientos locales c…
Mining and urbanization: Ways of generating water insecurity in Andean territories
Innovaciones institucionales en contextos mineros: La experiencia de monitoreos comunitarios del agua en Argentina y Perú
Revista de Ciencia Política, 41(3), 539–562
La apuesta por la infraestructura: Inversión pública y la reproducción de la escasez hídrica en contextos de gran minería en Perú y Colombia
Public and private policies typically consider the construction of infrastructure the most appropriate response to the problems of water scarcity and water disputes. However, infrastructure in itself not always is the solution. Why water infrastructure is not in itself a solution to water stress and scarcity? How does infrastructure construction deepen inequalities in access to water? This article answers these questions by arguing that water inf…
The elusive sustainable growth: The formation of institutional socio-ecological traps in Peruvian anchoveta fisheries
In Peru, government agencies have set out to regulate the profitable anchoveta fishery to increase its efficiency and sustainability. Current government regulations seek to eradicate informal and illegal fishing activities and include a differentiated set of regulations for industrial and small-scale fisheries to prevent overfishing. However, overfishing continues, threatening the reproduction of the anchoveta biomass. Moreover, informal and ille…
Trapped institutional change: The Quest for Regulating Fishing Activities in Protected Areas
The Peruvian state has implemented innovative regulations and participatory processes to establish co-management systems in marine protected areas. Following global trends, state conservation agencies seek to establish agreements with local producers to regulate fishing activities and achieve sustainable economic growth. Yet despite efforts to regulate fishing and aquaculture activities within protected areas, unregulated production continues to …
Una Mercancía Singular: Trayectorias Del Guano De Las Islas Peruano, 1909-2023
This article explores the value trajectories of island guano, a fundamental resource in Peru’s economic and political history during the nineteenth century, highlighting its evolution over the past 114 years. The academic literature on economic and political globalization has devoted relatively little attention to guano compared with other resources such as minerals and oil. Although guano has regained importance as an organic fertilizer in both …
Adopting Technology and Community Empowerment: Environmental Community-based Monitoring in Peru and Chile
Extractive developments and local concerns about their impacts have spurred the adoption of new technologies for community-based environmental monitoring (CBEM) of extractive sites. We analyzed the socio-technical processes of technology adoption and adaptation in two CBEM implementation cases in Peru and Chile. Using a qualitative methodology, we argue that the ways social actors select, acquire, learn to use, and interpret technological measuri…
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