Les logiques du coopérativisme minier en Bolivie. Ancrages locaux, savoirs et luttes sociales comme légitimités d’une activité contestée
Bolivia is a special case in South America in that 90 % of its mining workforce comes from artisanal and small-scale mines, organized in the form of cooperatives bringing together over 150,000 workers throughout the country. Today, this model of exploitation is strongly criticized, without taking in...
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| Language: | French |
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Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique
2025-03-01
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| Series: | EchoGéo |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/28929 |
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| Summary: | Bolivia is a special case in South America in that 90 % of its mining workforce comes from artisanal and small-scale mines, organized in the form of cooperatives bringing together over 150,000 workers throughout the country. Today, this model of exploitation is strongly criticized, without taking into account the diversity of these mining cooperatives. Our aim is to understand how several logics - vertical hierarchical, communitarian and entrepreneurial - coexist within artisanal cooperatives, while at the same time forming part of common logics of valorization of a local anchorage legitimizing the control of historically determined spaces, which artisanal mining practices sometimes disrupt, sometimes reproduce. |
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| ISSN: | 1963-1197 |