| ID | 152784 |
| Title Proper | Between oil contamination and consultation |
| Other Title Information | constrained spaces of influence in Northern Peruvian Amazonia |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Guzmán-Gallegos, María A |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In this article, I explore the interconnections among severe oil contamination, a state-led consultation process, and compensation practices in Peru’s oldest oilfield. I discuss the way in which four indigenous organisations and their constituencies produced evidence of oil contamination, and forced the state to question Peru’s current oil extraction practices. I look at the compensation demands and corporate payments that followed, and examine how compensation became a dominant tool for both appeasing increasing uprisings, and for counteracting what local people perceive as state abandonment. Focusing on the effects that compensation measures have on daily life, I analyse how equivalences between affected water and lands, on one hand, and state investments and monetary payments on the other, are established. I discuss how these equivalences have led to making indigenous ways of life irrelevant, and how this has been reinforced by the emphasis on due process during state-led consultation. |
| `In' analytical Note | Third World Quarterly Vol. 38, No.5; 2017: p.1110-1127 |
| Journal Source | Third World Quarterly Vol: 38 No 5 |
| Key Words | Peru ; Consultation ; Extractive Industries ; State Response ; Contamination ; Indigenous Ways of Life |