Transformative Environmental Conflicts. The case of struggles against large-scale mining in Argentina

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Walter, Mariana; Wagner, Lucrecia Soledad
Año de publicación
2023
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This chapter explores an intriguing case of environmental mobilization, Argentina’s anti-mining movement. This movement has contributed to the cancellation or suspension of about half of the contentious projects they have opposed. Argentina’s national governments have openly supported mining activities as a strategic policy during the past two decades. Nevertheless, actors critical to mining activities have led to the approval of regulations/laws restricting large-scale mining activities in nine out of twenty-three national provinces (including two restrictive laws that were later reverted). This process of mobilization and institutional change is quite unique when compared to other Latin American and worldwide environmental mobilization processes (Scheidel et al. 2020). In this chapter we argue that while the most visible outcomes of mining mobilization are apparently institutional, changes in institutions were possible due to the multi-scalar mobilization of actors that successfully deployed strategies targeted on the different forms of power (institutions, actors/networks and narratives/discourses) that were supporting mining development in the country. This process has led to far-reaching transformations in Argentina’s social and environmental narratives and policies.
Fil: Walter, Mariana. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; España
Fil: Wagner, Lucrecia Soledad. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales. Provincia de Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales; Argentina
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Transformative Environmental Conflicts
Large-scale mining
Argentina
Environmental mobilization
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Transformative Environmental Conflicts. The case of struggles against large-scale mining in Argentina
title Transformative Environmental Conflicts. The case of struggles against large-scale mining in Argentina
spellingShingle Transformative Environmental Conflicts. The case of struggles against large-scale mining in Argentina
Walter, Mariana
Transformative Environmental Conflicts
Large-scale mining
Argentina
Environmental mobilization
title_short Transformative Environmental Conflicts. The case of struggles against large-scale mining in Argentina
title_full Transformative Environmental Conflicts. The case of struggles against large-scale mining in Argentina
title_fullStr Transformative Environmental Conflicts. The case of struggles against large-scale mining in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Transformative Environmental Conflicts. The case of struggles against large-scale mining in Argentina
title_sort Transformative Environmental Conflicts. The case of struggles against large-scale mining in Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Walter, Mariana
Wagner, Lucrecia Soledad
author Walter, Mariana
author_facet Walter, Mariana
Wagner, Lucrecia Soledad
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author2 Wagner, Lucrecia Soledad
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Rodriguez, Iokiñe
Walter, Mariana
Temper, Leah
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Transformative Environmental Conflicts
Large-scale mining
Argentina
Environmental mobilization
topic Transformative Environmental Conflicts
Large-scale mining
Argentina
Environmental mobilization
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This chapter explores an intriguing case of environmental mobilization, Argentina’s anti-mining movement. This movement has contributed to the cancellation or suspension of about half of the contentious projects they have opposed. Argentina’s national governments have openly supported mining activities as a strategic policy during the past two decades. Nevertheless, actors critical to mining activities have led to the approval of regulations/laws restricting large-scale mining activities in nine out of twenty-three national provinces (including two restrictive laws that were later reverted). This process of mobilization and institutional change is quite unique when compared to other Latin American and worldwide environmental mobilization processes (Scheidel et al. 2020). In this chapter we argue that while the most visible outcomes of mining mobilization are apparently institutional, changes in institutions were possible due to the multi-scalar mobilization of actors that successfully deployed strategies targeted on the different forms of power (institutions, actors/networks and narratives/discourses) that were supporting mining development in the country. This process has led to far-reaching transformations in Argentina’s social and environmental narratives and policies.
Fil: Walter, Mariana. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; España
Fil: Wagner, Lucrecia Soledad. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales. Provincia de Mendoza. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales; Argentina
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