IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/ctwqxx/v38y2017i5p1092-1109.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Claiming prior consultation, monitoring environmental impact: counterwork by the use of formal instruments of participatory governance in Ecuador’s emerging mining sector

Author

Listed:
  • Esben Leifsen
  • Luis Sánchez-Vázquez
  • Maleny Gabriela Reyes

Abstract

The last environmental impact assessment (EIA) related to Ecuador’s first large-scale open pit copper mine, the Mirador project, was presented to the public in March 2015. In this article, we discuss how the rural mestizo population and Shuar indigenous people, who are under increasing pressure from the government and the mining company, contest the current politics of accountability related to the making and dissemination of this EIA. We analyse how formal instruments of governance related to participation (prior consultation) and environmental management (environmental impact monitoring), are re-used in the affected population’s resistance work. We look at how these formal instruments are put to independent and political use as part of an extended struggle for influence over the process of transformation that the mega mining project generates. The article contributes to a discussion around participatory strategies that build on new conversations between ‘popular environmentalists’ and social/earth scientists.

Suggested Citation

  • Esben Leifsen & Luis Sánchez-Vázquez & Maleny Gabriela Reyes, 2017. "Claiming prior consultation, monitoring environmental impact: counterwork by the use of formal instruments of participatory governance in Ecuador’s emerging mining sector," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(5), pages 1092-1109, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:38:y:2017:i:5:p:1092-1109
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1294980
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/01436597.2017.1294980
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/01436597.2017.1294980?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut & Flemmer, Riccarda & Hujber, Anna, 2018. "Contesting the hydrocarbon frontiers: State depoliticizing practices and local responses in Peru," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 74-85.
    2. Gregory, Gillian H., 2021. "Rendering mine closure governable and constraints to inclusive development in the Andean region," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
    3. Gustafsson, Maria-Therese & Scurrah, Martin, 2019. "Strengthening subnational institutions for sustainable development in resource-rich states: Decentralized land-use planning in Peru," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 133-144.
    4. Merino, Roger, 2018. "Re-politicizing participation or reframing environmental governance? Beyond indigenous’ prior consultation and citizen participation," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 75-83.
    5. Giovanni Esposito & Andrea Felicetti & Andrea Terlizzi, 2023. "Participatory governance in megaprojects: the Lyon–Turin high-speed railway among structure, agency, and democratic participation," Policy and Society, Darryl S. Jarvis and M. Ramesh, vol. 42(2), pages 259-273.
    6. Shuang Zhang & Jamie Mackee & Michael Sing & Liyaning Maggie Tang, 2022. "Mapping the Knowledge Domain of Affected Local Community Participation Research in Megaproject-Induced Displacement," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-17, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:38:y:2017:i:5:p:1092-1109. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/ctwq .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.