Law in Conflict: The Judicialization of Mining Disputes in Peru

Angela Lindt

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Law in Conflict

The Judicialization of Mining Disputes in Peru

Angela Lindt
Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Volume 13 in the series Soziale Bewegung und Protest

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839469699

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Peru's industrial mining sector is highly conflictual and characterized by social disputes. Many of these conflicts are fought not only in politics but also in the courts, as activists attempt to hold corporate and state actors liable for human rights violations. At the same time, they face an increasing criminalization of their protests. Law is thus both an emancipatory tool for activists to access justice and an instrument for political and economic elites to prevent social change. Based on ethnographic field work, Angela Lindt sheds light on various mining disputes in Cajamarca and Piura and examines the role of law in resolving these conflicts.

Author / Editor information

Angela Lindt (Dr.) is an associated researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Universität Bern in Switzerland, where she completed her PhD in 2020. Her research focuses on the judicialization of mining conflicts in Peru and on the use of law by transnational mining corporations, protest movements, and state actors.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	9
Notes on names Open Access Download PDF	11
Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	13
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	15
Chapter 1. Defending human rights in a mining country Open Access Download PDF	35
Chapter 2. Expectations of Law Open Access Download PDF	63
Chapter 3. Human rights litigation from below Open Access Download PDF	87
Chapter 4. Criminalizing social protest Open Access Download PDF	119
Chapter 5. Transnational advocacy campaigns Open Access Download PDF	147
Chapter 6. Human rights litigation abroad Open Access Download PDF	169
Chapter 7. Law’s limitations Open Access Download PDF	197
Conclusion. The ambiguous forces of law Open Access Download PDF	223
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	233

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 260
Keywords: Social Movements; Mining; Peru; Protest; Law; Transnational Corporations; Democracy; Politics; Economy; International Relations; Political Science

eBook

Published: December 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839469699