ABSTRACT
This book utilizes a case study of a community in Peru to challenge and extend the existing literature on the impacts of mining on rural communities. It seeks to understand the spatial transformations that rural populations experience and actively shape in response to large-scale mining development in the Peruvian Andes. The focus is on the experiences and responses of the families near La Granja copper project in Cajamarca, in the northern Andes of Peru, since mining activities began, around 25 years ago. In particular, the book centers on the examination of local experiences related to land and housing (access), farming and nonfarming activities (production), and migratory history (mobility) as well as the images of the past, present and future of La Granja (representations) that women and men living in the vicinity of the project have constructed since 1994.
