Navigating gendered landscapes of mineral extraction

فصل «Navigating gendered landscapes of mineral extraction» از کتاب «Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South» بر «جنسیت و استخراج مواد معدنی» در حوزه «جامعه، حقوق و مسئولیت اجتماعی معدن» تمرکز دارد. محتوا مبانی علمی، روش‌های فنی و پیامدهای عملی موضوع را به‌صورت منسجم توضیح می‌دهد. برای مطالعه تخصصی، استفاده حرفه‌ای و تصمیم‌گیری مبتنی بر شواهد مفید است.

This chapter aims to contribute to the literature on gender and extractive industries by bringing it into conversation with emerging research on the mining-mobility nexus. Specifically, it uses a case study of a mining project in the northern Peruvian Andes (Rio Tinto’s La Granja copper project in the region of Cajamarca) to explore how mining development fostered the spatial mobility and autonomy of women living in, or connected to, the project area. The analysis concludes that, while women remained marginalized in absolute terms, they experienced some increase in spatial mobility, which in turn enhanced their capacity to act autonomously in physical, economic, and decision-making spheres.