Shuar Women’s Responses to Socio-Environmental Conflict in the Area of the Mirador Project (Ecuador)
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Ecofeminism, indigenous women, extractivism, Amazonia.
Abstract
The Mirador Project is a large-scale mining project located in the Cordillera del Cóndor that plans to extract 60,000 metric tons of rock daily beginning in 2018. The severity of socio-environmental impacts resulting from the Mirador Project are amplified due to the fact that the project takes place in an area largely inhabited by the indigenous Shuar who have constitutional rights to maintain control over their ancestral territories. In this paper I analyze the impact that large-scale mining has on the S huar female population by examining their perception of the conflict in question. Data is analyzed within the ecofeminist discourse focusing on the particularity of rural women in the global South in relation to nature and development.Downloads
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Verdú Delgado A. D. (2017). Shuar Women’s Responses to Socio-Environmental Conflict in the Area of the Mirador Project (Ecuador). Revista de Antropología Social, 26(1), 9-30. https://doi.org/10.5209/RASO.56040
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