The Political Ecology of Extractive Industries and Changing Waterscapes in the Andes
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Reading
Department Name: Sch of Human & Environmental Sciences
Abstract
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Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Jessica Budds (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Hinojosa L
(2013)
Elementos para el debate sobre gobernanza ambiental en los Andes con especial mencion al agua y mineria en Peru
in Politai: Revista de Ciencia Politica
Hinojosa L
(2013)
Change in rural livelihoods in the Andes: do extractive industries make any difference?
in Community Development Journal
Jessica Budds (Author)
(2012)
Restructuring and rescaling water governance in mining contexts : the co-production of waterscapes in Peru
in Water alternatives
Norman Emma S.
(2015)
Negotiating Water Governance: Why the Politics of Scale Matter
| Description | The project found that water is an arena through which key contestations regarding the development of mining and its social and environmental effects on local lives, livelihoods and landscapes play out. Unlike some other effects of mining, water has the specific characteristic of constituting a medium through which the effects of mining are felt far beyond the mine site and legally defined affected populations, leading to injustices that are not addressed and patron-client relationships emerging between highland communities and private mining companies. The project argued for a more precise definition of the concept of 'waterscape', and its mobiliastion as a way of conceptualising the temporal and scalar reach of water issues in the context of the mining industry, as well as the two-directional relationship between mining and water. In Peru, water has become a key challenge to the mining industry as a whole as well as specific mines, and, importantly, these challenges have also shaped material and discursive relations with water in that context. |
| Exploitation Route | The data could potentially inform water management and/or policy in mining contexts, especially in Peru and Latin America; although it should be recognised that water and mining issues are extremely sensitive and also dominated by technocratic practices and technical knowledge production. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Description | Climate change, mining and water resources in the southern Peruvian Andes |
| Amount | £2,865 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Reading |
| Department | Walker Institute for Climate Research |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2012 |
| End | 08/2012 |
| Description | Ethnographic research on water and mining in communities in Tacna and Moquegua, southern Peru |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Open University |
| Department | Open Space Research Centre |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2011 |
| End | 12/2011 |
| Description | School of International Development Personal Travel Grant |
| Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of East Anglia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2013 |
| End | 07/2013 |
| Description | The Political Ecology of 'Neoextractivism': Developing and Governing Lithium Mining in Bolivia |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of East Anglia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2013 |
| End | 09/2016 |
| Description | Accessing and using water for mineral extraction: issues and challenges |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Exploration of issues and challenges arising in relation to the growing demand for water for the expanding mining industry in Peru |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Agua y poder: estrategias, espacios y relaciones |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Conceptual framework for water, power and the production of space |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Agua y territorialidad en la región andina: hacia una mirada política |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar and session lead on power and the production of space |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Extracting minerals, producing waterscapes: rethinking the relationship between water and mining in Peru |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Exploration of the co-production of water and mining in Peru |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Extractive Industries: Development and Governance, Part I: Impact, community, and the governance of development opportunity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussant |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Extractive industries and changing waterscapes in the Andes: reflections on governance and scale |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Invited to session on water resources and the politics of scale |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Gold of the conquistadors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Edition of BBC Radio 4 Costing the Earth based upon the research project (the idea was pitched to BBC by Budds), with interviews and field material recorded on location by the PI, and text and photographs provided for the webpage for this edition. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015p871 Radio 4 programme with interview and recorded material from southern Peru. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015p871 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015p871 |
| Description | Las industrias extractivas y los paisajes hídricos en transición en los paises andinos: análisis de la gobernanza de recursos y formación de territorios en Perú |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Research paper on relationship between water and mining in Peru |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Las relaciones de poder y la producción de paisajes hídricos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Conceptual framework for examining the relationship between water and power |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Las relaciones sociales de poder y la producción de paisajes hídricos en el contexto de industrias extractivas en los paises andinos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar on the role of power relations in shaping water flows and issues |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Mecanismos de acceso y control del agua en el contexto minero del sur Peruano |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Case study of access to water in Tacna and Moquegua, Peru |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Mineral extraction and changing waterscapes in the Andes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Exploration of the relationship between water and mining in the Andes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Mineral extraction and the production of waterscapes in the Peruvian Andes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Explores the different aspects of water that are shaped by the growth of the mining industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Mineral extraction and water rights in the Peruvian Andes, keynote lecture, University of Berne, Switzerland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecutre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Mineral extraction through the hydrosocial cycle: producing and reproducing water and indigenous people in the southern Peruvian Andes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Exploration of relational thinking vis-a-vis mining and indigenous people |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Mining and the production of waterscapes in the Andes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Seminar focusing on the co-production of water and mining in Peru |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Restructuring and rescaling water governance for extractive industries: the co-production of uneven waterscapes in Peru |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Examines how the structures and institutions of water governance are shaped by the growth of the mining industry in Peru. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Water and the commodification of copper in the southern Peruvian Andes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Examines the relationship between the neoliberalisation of different natural resources using the case of water and mining in the Andes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Water governance and mineral extraction in the Andes: the co-production of waterscapes in Peru |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Examines how the growth of the mining industry influences water governance in different ways and at different scales |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Water territories or water and territory? A reflection on the geographies of natural resources in the Andes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Examines the role of power relations in producing space in relation to water and extractive industries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |