Mining Formalization at the Margins of the State
Small-scale Miners and State Governance in the Peruvian Amazon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3884372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerardo Damonte (0000-0002-0529-2124, corresponding author), Gerardo Hector Damonte |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1314-1335 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12414 |
| OpenAlex | W2801779907 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 26 |
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 agency and the reproduction of 'hybrid' formal and informal institutions, small-scale miners have learned to contest, reinterpret and build alternatives to central state governance. The article contributes to the literature on development policies by showing how difficulties in implementing regulatory policies may be analysed as governance problems, particularly in regions like the Amazon, where the state apparatus is not well established
Agency (philosophy) · Amazon rainforest · CONTEST · Corporate governance · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Management · Political science · Politics · Scale (ratio) · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · State formation · Computer Science · Ecology · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Public Administration · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Seeing the broader picture
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State Capture in the Militarized Fight Against Illegal Small-Scale Goldmining in Ghana
The effects of corruption in natural resources on the achievement of sustainable development goals in Bolivia and Peru
Inner dimensions, outer change
Working with legal small‐scale miners
Filling or widening ‘circular’ voids? On institutional imaginaries and barriers to circular economy transitions in artisanal and small-scale mining
Appropriate technologies and the geosocial evolution of informal, small-scale gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru
Natures of concern
Expansion of small-scale gold mining in Madre de Dios
Alluvial gold mining, conflicts, and state intervention in Peru's southern Amazonia
Politics on display
A political ecology perspective on resource extraction and human security in Kenya, Bolivia and Peru
Critical minerals or criminal miners? The (in)formalization of artisanal and small-scale copper mining in Peru
Voluntary gold certification programs
Mining and violence in Latin America
Party political campaigning and the illegal extraction of gold in Ghana
Formalisation, enforcement, and the production of illegality in Amazonian small-scale gold mining
Entering the critical era
Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld
Governing Artisanal and Small-scale Sand Mining in Bangladesh
Informal Gold Miners, State Fragmentation, and Resource Governance in Bolivia and Peru
The open veins of the Amazon
Navigating Austerity
The Art of Not Being Governed
Institutional challenges for mining and sustainability in Peru
Anthropology in the margins of the state
The State of Exception
State in Society
The Logic of Practice
Red Tape
Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics
Capturing Critical Institutionalism
Seeing the State
Everyday Forms of State Formation
The "Blind" State
The file
A moral economy of corruption in Africa
Contention and Ambiguity
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man
Blurred Boundaries
Beyond "the State" and Failed Schemes
Seeing Like an Oil Company
Imagining the state
State by Proxy
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |