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SMALL SCALE AND ARTISANAL MINING IN PERU: SHAPING DISCOURSES ON INFORMALITY, ILLEGALITY, AND POVERTY

Authors:
Pantilimon Ioana

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Pantilimon Ioana
National University of Politica Studies and Public Administration

MLA 8
Ioana, Pantilimon. "SMALL SCALE AND ARTISANAL MINING IN PERU: SHAPING DISCOURSES ON INFORMALITY, ILLEGALITY, AND POVERTY." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 7, no. 3, Mar. 2022, pp. 565-580, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i03.007. Accessed Mar. 2022.
APA 6
Ioana, P. (2022, March). SMALL SCALE AND ARTISANAL MINING IN PERU: SHAPING DISCOURSES ON INFORMALITY, ILLEGALITY, AND POVERTY. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 7(3), 565-580. Retrieved from doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i03.007
Chicago
Ioana, Pantilimon. "SMALL SCALE AND ARTISANAL MINING IN PERU: SHAPING DISCOURSES ON INFORMALITY, ILLEGALITY, AND POVERTY." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 7, no. 3 (March 2022), 565-580. Accessed March, 2022. doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i03.007.

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ABSTRACT:
The present paper deals with how artisanal and small-scale mining are associated with discourses on poverty and illegality/informality. It builds on the formal differences that the Peruvian legislation makes between informality and illegality and on data regarding the socio-economic situation of artisanal and small-scale miners by focusing on the case of the Madre de Dios region. At the same time, it marginally addresses the structural factors that shape the discourse on the illegality of ASSM, especially neoliberal extractivism and, implicitly, the prioritization of large-scale mining. It shows that the process of privatization started in the ’90sled to the legal marginalization of ASSM, leaving close to no space for the development of sustainable ASSM. Moreover, along with the legal marginalization, the response of public authorities usually involved criminalization and the use of force. The paper aims to inform on state of the art regarding illegal/informal mining in Peru.

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