Place, Violence, and Resistance

Impacts of Mining in the Chilean Andes

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ID4500222
AuthorsAnita Carrasco (0000-0003-4379-1773, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume50
Issue6
Pages55-69
Publication date2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x221124921
OpenAlexW4296711402
LanguageEN
References cited18

The indigenous community of Estación San Pedro has turned a sense of place into an act of resistance to the impacts of mining on its homeland in the Chilean Andes. In 2007 San Pedrinos wrote to the headquarters of Chile's National Copper Corporation claiming compensation for historical dispossession of water, forced migration from their homeland, and the disintegration of their traditional way of life. San Pedrinos continue to return to their homeland despite the mining corporation's historical attempts to obliterate them. La comunidad indígena de Estación San Pedro ha convertido su sentido de lugar en un acto de resistencia ante los impactos de la minería en su tierra natal, localizada en los Andes chilenos. En 2007, los san pedrinos escribieron a la sede de la Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile exigiendo una compensación por el despojo histórico de agua, la migración forzada de su lugar natal y la desintegración de su forma de vida tradicional. Los san pedrinos continúan regresando a su tierra natal a pesar de los intentos históricos de la corporación minera por destruirlos

Art · Corporation · Ethnology · Geography · Homeland · Humanities · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Tierra · Ecology · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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