Project Title: Extractivism On The Defense: Mining Capital, The Neoliberal State, And Community And Indigenous Power In Central America
Nathan Edenhofer, University of California, Santa Cruz
Nathan Edenhofer is a PhD candidate in the politics department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on conflict, social movements, and the political economy of extractivism in Latin America, especially Central America. His research has been published in The Journal of Latin American Studies and is forthcoming in The Extractive Industries and Society and the Edward Elgar Handbook of Resource Nationalism. He is a member and rotating coordinator of the UC Santa Cruz-based Extractivism and Society Research Cluster. Nate’s dissertation focuses on how anti-mining struggles waged by rural and Indigenous communities over 25 years in Guatemala and Honduras have paralyzed or prevented the majority of metal-mining projects in each country, despite hostile political conditions and the opposition of powerful transnational companies. Indigenous participatory institutions of “prior consultation” became terrains of struggle in the process, as did Indigenous identity itself. Answering how rural and Indigenous movements put extractivism on the defensive provides empirical and theoretical lessons on power and organization in social movements, the contradictions of the capitalist state, and the strategies that elites take to try to dissolve opposition.
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