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Mining presence: extraction and embodiment in Valles Centrales, Oaxaca.
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Social & Cultural Geography . May2024, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p639-657. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper offers a critical reflection on the ways extractive industries manifest within and across place. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Mexico over 8 months in 2019–2020, this paper focuses on the experiences of residents living in a town adjacent to an underground silver mine in Valles Centrales, Oaxaca, Mexico. I argue that a focus on lived, sensory and long-term engagement between people and mining opens new avenues for geographers to consider 'what mining does'. Looking beyond the language of 'impacts', I build upon work on cultural geographies of presence and absence to put forward the notion of 'mining presence': mining's present and absent affects and materialities that interweave with residents' everyday lives, homes, bodies, and landscapes. In other words, I explore the qualities of mining that bring the San José mine into a neighbouring town and mediate spaces of daily life. In doing so, this paper contributes to the geographies of the extractive industries by showing that attention to life with mining requires a re-thinking of the spatiotemporal relations of extraction itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14649365
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Social & Cultural Geography
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176344315
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2023.2189290