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Jennifer Moore's news dispatches from Ecuador
We have just posted all Jennifer Moore's news dispatches from Ecuador on our website. To see them click here.
Jennifer is collaborating with TCD Andes' research in Southern Ecuador.
LASA 2009
The TCD Andes team participated in several panels at the XXVIII International Congress LASA 2009 “Rethinking Inequalities”, held on June 11-14 in Río de Janeiro.
Tony Bebbington, Denise H. Bebbington and Leonith Hinojosa presented the paper “Rural territorial dynamics, extractive industries and inequality in Bolivia” at the panel “La dimensión territorial de la desigualdad rural I”, convened by Rimisp. Tony and Denise also participated in the workshop “The ‘resource curse’ revisited: Inequality, social conflict and state capacity”, organized by the Universidad del Pacífico, and Leonith presented the paper “Mineral wealth and poverty in Andean environments” at the panel “Reconnecting with poverty in Latin America”, convened by the BWPI, University of Manchester.
(Papers are available in our section Publications/Working Papers and presentations in Publications/Conference and Public Presentations).
Seminar FLACSO Ecuador - University of Manchester
The Faculties of Public Policy and Management and the Anthropology Faculty of FLACSO –Ecuador together with TCD Andes associates, Ximena Warnaars PhD student from the University of Manchester and Teresa Velasquez, PhD candidate from the University of Texas held a Seminar on the 26th of May 2009 to present summaries and initial findings of their fieldwork in Ecuador. Ximena presented a synopsis of her work and some preliminary analyses of her research in Southern Ecuador on “Territory, Development and Social Movements in a Mining Conflict”. Teresa presented a paper based on her fieldwork in the Province Azuay, Ecuador on "Responsible mining? Water, mining conflicts and the state in the Province of Azuay." The PhD candidates also led a workshop for FLACSO Master’s students on the debates and challenges of doing field research in the context of a mining conflict.
TCD-Andes Seminars
In the last semester two new seminars in the series on Territories, Conflicts and Development in the Andes were successfully carried out in coordination with other organizations from the academia and the business sector working on similar research issues.
Seminar 4, entitled “Extraction, water, and territory: extractive enterprises, indigenous peoples and resource conflicts”, was co-sponsored with the Developing Areas Research Network. It was held on March 20th at Newcastle University. The summary and copies of presentations are available in our section Seminars.
The topic of Seminar 3 was “Extractive industries, fiscal systems and human welfare: national policy and local development in Peru, Chile and Bolivia”. It was co-organized by the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) and held at the offices of Anglo American in London on October 24th 2008. The seminar briefing and other resources are also available in our section Seminars.
First external monitoring report
The first external monitoring report on TCD Andes, prepared by Dr. Jessica Budds of the Open University was submitted in August 2008 and can be found in our section Research Monitoring Reports.
Seminar ECLAC-CEPES-University of Manchester
In this seminar, held in Lima on August 14-15 2008, research staff from the three organizations and representatives of the Cajamarca's Regional Government analized the contribution of mining to the Millenium Development Goals taking into account socio-environmental justice principles.
(See our section Seminars)
SSRC-ESRC Fellowships
"Two SSRC-ESRC Fellowships have been awarded to enable links between the project and US-based researchers working on similar topics. The first fellowship was given to Dr. Jeffrey Bury of Department of Environmental Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, who has collaborated with the project during 2007-8. The second has been awarded to Dr. Stuart Kirsch, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan who will collaborate with project activities during 2009"
Mining and Constitutional Reform in Ecuador
Ecuador is currently going through a process of rewriting its Constitution, through an elected Constituent Assembly. During the work of the Assembly, Congress has been dissolved and will be re-elected later in 2008. The Assembly is divided into 10 working groups ("mesas") made up of the elected Assembly members. Nine of these groups are responsible for preparing sections of the new constitution, while the tenth sees to interim legislation. Mesa No. 5 in the Assembly deals with natural resources and biodiversity issues, and the most contentious theme on which it is working is that of mining. On March 6th, 2008, the Mesa held a public forum in the city of Loja on the theme of Mining and the Extractive Model. It invited Tony Bebbington to give one of the two keynote addresses (on mining and territorial development) to an auditorium of some nine hundred people whose opinions ranged from very strongly pro-mining to very strongly anti-mining. He then spent an additional day with the Mesa and its members.
Interview with Anthony Bebbington for Revista Agraria, Peru (PDF, 140KB), on the local referendum on the Rio Blanco project in Piura Peru.