Mining struggles in Argentina. The keys of a successful story of mobilisation
Walter, Mariana (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Wagner, Lucrecia (Institute of Nivology. Glaciology and Environmental Science)

Date:	2021
Abstract:	This paper explores an intriguing case of environmental mobilisation in the world, Argentina's anti-mining movement. This movement has contributed to the cancelation or suspension of about half of the contentious projects they have opposed and has led to the approval of regulations and laws restricting large-scale mining activities in 9 out of 23 national provinces. This process of mobilisation and institutional change is quite unique when compared to other Latin American and worldwide environmental mobilisation processes. This paper studies how the actors and the strategies mobilised in Argentinean mining conflicts have led to these and other mobilisation outcomes. With this aim we have developed, in collaboration with the Environmental Justice Atlas (www. ejaltas. org), a systematic identification and analysis of all public large-scale mining conflicts in the country from 1997 (when large scale mining began) to 2018. We conclude signalling three key interrelated features of anti-mining contention in Argentina: the diversity of actors and their strategies, some political opportunity structures (i. e. decentralised mining governance to provinces, mobilisation at early stages of projects) and the role of multi-scalar environmental justice networks acting on local, provincial and national scales.
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
Note:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Environmental justice ; Mining conflictsE ; JAtlas ; Political opportunity structures ; Multi-scalar networks
Published in:	The extractive industries and society, (May 2021) , art. 100940, ISSN 2214-790X

DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2021.100940

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