A study on the theoretical-methodological bases of the Environmental History Group of IANIGLA/CONICET, Mendoza, for the investigation of socio-environmental mining conflicts

• Grant number: 24/15299-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2025
• End date: April 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Frederico Daia Firmiano
• Grantee: Maria Eduarda Moreira de Almeida
• Supervisor: Lucrecia Soledad Wagner
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Instituto Argentino De Nivología, Glaciología Y Ciencias Ambientales, Argentina
• Associated to the scholarship: 24/03375-0 - The mining-industrial sector and the contest over ecological and natural resources: analysis of the socioenvironmental conflicts dynamics in the state of Minas Gerais between 2019 and 2023., BP.IC

Abstract

In the last four decades, Latin America has become one of the most important frontiers of mineral expansion on the planet. In this process, countries that have historically played this role in the international division of labor, such as Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil, have ratified their status as exporters of mineral commodities. Others have been incorporated into the global extractivism circuit, as in the case of Argentina, which, from the 1990s onwards, experienced a mining boom as part of the productive restructuring of capital and the implementation of neoliberal policies. At the heart of this process has been an exponential increase in the socio-environmental conflicts associated with large-scale mining. In this context, important research groups in Argentina have dedicated themselves to the study of socio-environmental conflicts, including the IANIGLA/CONICET Environmental History Group. This research aims to analyze the theoretical and methodological bases of the Environmental History Group of IANIGLA/CONICET, Mendoza, in the investigation of mining conflicts in Argentina, based on a comprehensive survey and analysis of the research that the group has produced, as well as on the participation and analysis of the discussions it has promoted.