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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.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 260
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
23 April 2024
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837669695
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
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.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Acknowledgments 9
Notes on names 11
Abbreviations 13
Introduction 15
Chapter 1. Defending human rights in a mining country 35
Chapter 2. Expectations of Law 63
Chapter 3. Human rights litigation from below 87
Chapter 4. Criminalizing social protest 119
Chapter 5. Transnational advocacy campaigns 147
Chapter 6. Human rights litigation abroad 169
Chapter 7. Law's limitations 197
Conclusion. The ambiguous forces of law 223
Bibliography 233