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Territoriality, Narratives And Violence: Stories Of Eight Women Living In The Presence Of A Large-Scale Mine In Ecuador, Chelsea N. Viteri 7742622017
Territoriality, Narratives And Violence: Stories Of Eight Women Living In The Presence Of A Large-Scale Mine In Ecuador, Chelsea N. Viteri 7742622017
International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE)
Women play a substantial role in communities that are affected by mining nevertheless, their role has not been well documented and their voices and experiences have not been centered in the debates around extraction. In Ecuador, local rural, campesina, and indigenous women bear much the cost of large scale development projects, as their bodies, families, homes, environments and economies are impacted. This paper emerges from eight semi-structured interviews with indigenous and campesina women from Tundayme, a small rural town which is in the middle of the first large scale mine in Ecuador. Using a feminist political ecology framework and storytelling, …