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With apologies for cross-posting
Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference 2014
Birkbeck, University of London, 3 and 4 April 2014
'Gender and the Extractive Industries in Latin America'
Convenor: Dr Katy Jenkins, Northumbria University
This panel aims to critically explore how gender intersects with diverse issues related to the expansion of extractive industries in Latin America. Whilst, as Bebbington observes,
“…the rise of extractive industry visits tremendous change and dislocation on territories and countries within which it occurs […] [and is associated with] unprecedented transformations of landscape, labour and social
relations” (Bebbington 2012: 5), the experiences of women in relation to this unfolding scenario remain largely invisible, with little critical analysis of the ways in which gender roles, gender relations, and gendered spaces and subjectivities shape, and
are shaped by, this complex set of processes.
The extractive industries have, in a variety of contexts, been shown not to be gender neutral, but to impact disproportionately on women, particularly poor and rural women (e.g.
Oxfam Australia 2009, Ahmad & Lahiri-Dutt 2006, Macdonald & Rowland 2002). However, literature engaging with these issues deals principally with the context of Australasia and Asia and, with a couple of exceptions (Rondón 2009, Li 2009), there has been little
empirical focus on the Latin American context, despite the rapid expansion of extractive activities in the region.
Papers are therefore invited on topics including, but not limited to, the gendered impacts of extractive industries on communities
and individuals; women as workers, particularly in relation to artisanal and informal mining; gendered violence and exploitation in affected communities; women as anti-mining activists; the intersections of gender and indigeneity in relation to extractive
industries; and women’s human rights and the extractives sector.
If you are interested in proposing a paper for this session, you are welcome to get in touch with me directly, but all paper proposals must be submitted via the conference website:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/slas/slas2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2626. Proposals must be no longer than 250 words.
The deadline for paper proposals is 22nd November 2013.
Best wishes,
Katy
Dr Katy Jenkins
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Dept of Social Sciences and Languages
Northumbria University
Lipman Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
tel: 0191 227 3061
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Associate Editor for
Journal of International Development
Programme Leader for the
MSc International Development and Co-Director of the
Centre for International Development