Lost in Corporate Translation

How Firms Mediate Between Social Mobilization and Regulatory Intervention in the Extractive Sector

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ID2990956
AuthorsPaul Alexander Haslam (0000-0003-3336-425X, University of Ottawa), Julieta Godfrid (0000-0002-5165-4464, Universidad Autónoma de Chile)
Year2023
Volume65
Issue3
Pages20-46
Publication date2023-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/lap.2022.63
OpenAlexW4378388766
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited62

Firms should be considered as actors that potentially mediate between social movement pressures and policy outcomes. This article shows that at the mining project level, social mobilization can generate important changes in corporate practices toward nearby communities, and that these practices can undermine the cohesion of social movement coalitions advocating for regulatory intervention or reform, thus limiting their ability to make compelling claims on the state. In this way, company interpretations of and responses to protest are an important mediating process that conditions civil society efforts to activate state institutions in their favor. This argument extends recent work on the social foundations of regulation in Latin America by including corporate actors. The article is based on a comparative case study of the Pascua Lama/Veladero mining projects in both Argentina and Chile, using both secondary sources and primary field research

Civil society · Latin Americans · Limiting · Mobilization · Political economy · Political science · Public relations · Resource mobilization · Social movement · Sociology · Law · Mining and Resource Management

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