Abstract

VAZQUEZ GARCIA, Verónica; SOSA CAPISTRAN, Dulce María  and  MARTINEZ GONZALEZ, Rocío. Gender and mining extractivism. Female mobilization experiences in Zacatecas and Puebla (Mexico). Revista Col. San Luis [online]. 2020, vol.10, n.21, 00022.  Epub Mar 14, 2022. ISSN 2007-8846.  https://doi.org/10.21696/rcsl102120201253.

This paper documents and analyzes women’s participation in mobilizations around two mining projects in México: Mina del Toro, still operating in Zacatecas, and Mina Espejeras, Puebla, whose opening was temporarily detained. Drawing on data obtained from 13 interviews conducted in both states as well as some secondary sources, two civil resistance cases are compared. The number of interviews is scarce because many people refused to collaborate due to the existing conflict. Women’s reasons for involvement have to do with habitat destruction, water scarcity and contamination, and air degradation. Women experienced the mobilizations in similar ways, but the results at the community level are very different. This paper contributes to the literature on socioenvironmental conflicts with a gender perspective which has traditionally been overlooked.

Keywords : gender; socioenvironmental conflicts; mining; caring economy.

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