Civil Society Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in Guatemala |
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| Authors: | William N. Holden R. Daniel Jacobson |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Geography/Program of Environmental Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N-1N4;(2) Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Drawing on a range of fieldwork interviews, this paper discusses the opposition of civil society to nonferrous metals mining in Guatemala. Guatemala’s mineral resources, and government efforts to encourage their extraction, are discussed, as is the emergent civil society of that nation. Guatemalan civil society has opposed mining due to the impacts of its environmental effects upon the poor engaged in subsistence agriculture. This opposition has involved protests, community consultations against mining, and networking with the forces of global civil society. The paper concludes with a discussion of how this opposition to mining is a manifestation of the opposition to neoliberalism currently underway in Latin America. |
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| Keywords: | Civil society Global civil society Guatemala Latin America Mining Neoliberalism |
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