Le « genre » du développement minier : maternalisme et extractivisme, entre complémentarité et contestation

Abstract

Mining activities’ potential to promote growth and equality in Peru is a subject of debate. Contrasting views stem from different ideas as to what constitutes a desirable social and economic model, as well as from substantial power differentials between actors bought together by the sector. This article adopts gender as an analytical perspective in order to deal transversally with the material and symbolic dimensions of the power relations that intertwine with the social and environmental processes « engendered » by mining activities, in a region of intense extraction and mobilisation.

Keywords

• gender
• power
• social movements
• mining