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- Title
La actividad minera a cielo abierto en Álamos, Sonora.
- Authors
Campa Madrid, Ana Karen; Rivera Castañeda, Patricia
- Abstract
In addition to presenting himself as economic development, the discourse on mining activity must integrate the inequalities of power and benefits that exist in it. The objective of this work is to analyze the existing and potential socio-environmental implications promoted by openpit mining activity in the municipality of Álamos, Sonora under the focus of political ecology. Methodological dynamics is a combination of discourse analysis and spatial analysis, the first through semi-structured interviews and the second with calculations of vegetation and water stress indices. The results indicate two main aspects in Álamos, Sonora: the presence of a positive dominant discourse in favor of the mining industry as a provider of local employment, which differs with the socioeconomic characteristics of marginalization and poverty of the municipality; and the discursive acceptance of the problem of the reduction of vegetation and water limitations in the area, however, the interviewed population visualizes these aspects detached from the mining sector.
- Subjects
SONORA (Mexico : State); POLITICAL ecology; DISCOURSE analysis; STRIP mining; SEMI-structured interviews; MINERAL industries; POVERTY reduction
- Publication
Nóesis: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2022, Vol 31, Issue 62, p86
- ISSN
2395-8669
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20983/noesis.2022.2.6