ABSTRACT
In this article, Florea and Rhoades draw on participative field observations from two long-running anti-mining struggles – the mobilization aiming to protect Roşia Montană, in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania, from open-pit gold extraction using cyanide, and the mobilization of indigenous communities in the North Western Colombian Amazon aiming to protect their traditional territories from a Canadian multinational’s attempts to extract gold. Conceived as a dialogue between the two authors, the article sets the frame for an ongoing questioning upon the limits and possibilities of action for social and environmental justice, in the global context of neoliberal grab on human and non-human nature.
