scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT-INDUCED DISPLACEMENT IN ROMANIA: THE CASE OF ROŞIA MONTANĂ MINING PROJECT

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucian VESALON ◽  
Remus CREȚAN
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Compensation Mechanism ◽  
Mining Company ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Displacement Processes

This paper proposes a critical discussion of the population displacement processes involved in the Ro?ia Montan? gold-mining project within the theoretical framework of development-induced displacement (DID). We begin with an overview of the geographical context of the rural community, focusing on the social and economic structure of Ro?ia Montan?. After assessing the relocation and resettlement processes, we examine several problems related to the compensation mechanism set up by the mining company. The aim of the research is to highlight the complexity of the consequences of development-induced displacement and the limits of the policies of relocation and resettlement in the area.

scholarly journals Between support and marginalization

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-110
Author(s):  
Anahy Gajardo
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Northern Chile ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Mining Company ◽  
The Third ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
Set Up

Long regarded as an ethnic group extinct since the 16th century, the Diaguita of Chile re-emerged as an indigenous people in the early 2000s in the midst of their struggle against extractivism. Although they did not „exist”Ÿ 15 years ago in legal terms and were socially invisible, they are now the third most important indigenous group in Chile, after the Mapuche and the Aymara. This paper analyses the combined roles of a Canadian mining company (Barrick Gold, Pascua Lama project) and the Chilean state in the process of this group”Ÿs re-emergence in the Huasco Alto region of northern Chile. In particular, it shows how the social responsibility programs of the mining company (CSR), set up to support “the ethnic revitalization” of the Diaguita, contribute both to divide local indigenous communities and to justify a culturalized and depoliticized indigenous identity, compatible with mining interests and the state's project to conciliate neoliberal and multiculturalist policies.

scholarly journals UMA GEOGRAFIA POLÍTICA DO OURO: SOBRE FRONTEIRA, GARIMPEIROS E DESPOSSESSÃO NA VOLTA GRANDE DO XINGU

GEOgraphia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (50) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josoaldo Lima Rego ◽  
Andrei Cornetta
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Hydroelectric Plant ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Mining Company ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Commercial Operation ◽  
Belo Monte ◽  
Reduced Water

Nas últimas duas décadas, poucas obras no Brasil deram margem a controvérsias e especulações tanto quanto a construção da Usina Hidroelétrica (UHE) Belo Monte, na Volta Grande do rio Xingu, estado do Pará. Atualmente, dois anos após o enchimento total dos reservatórios e do início da operação comercial da UHE, a população do Médio Xingu, particularmente aquela que se encontra no trecho de vazão reduzida da Volta Grande, continua sobre forte ameaça frente ao projeto de mineração de ouro em escala industrial. Valendo-se da vazão reduzida do rio, em decorrência da construção das barragens e de um garimpo de ouro em operação desde a década de 1940, uma mineradora canadense pretende exaurir, em pouco mais de uma década, a jazida de ouro que sustenta diversas famílias agroextrativistas há três gerações. Diante desta complexidade, o presente artigo discute, a partir de um olhar da geografia política, os aspectos relacionados à busca incessante de recursos materiais na Amazônia e seus desdobramentos em termos de despossessão e das disputas territoriais.Palavras-chave: Volta Grande do Xingu; mineração de ouro; fronteira; despossessão; território. A POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF GOLD: ON THE FRONTIER, MINERS AND DISPOSSESSION ON THE VOLTA GRANDE DO XINGU Abstract: In the last two decades, few projects in Brazil have been so controversial and have generated as much speculation as the construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant (HPP), on Xingu River in Volta Grande region, state of Pará. Four years after the total filling of the reservoirs and the beginning of the commercial operation of Belo Monte, the population living in Middle Xingu, particularly those located in the reduced water flow areas of Volta Grande region, continue to be affected by a major gold mining project. Taking advantage of the reduced river flow caused by the construction of the dams and gold mining operations since 1940s, a Canadian mining company is now intending to deplete the local gold reserves - that have sustained three generations of local families - in just over a decade. Considering this complexity, this paper departs from the perspectives of the movements of the capitalist frontier, to discuss the aspects related to the incessant search for material resources in the Amazon and its unfolding consequences in terms of dispossession and territorial disputes.Keywords: Volta Grande do Xingu; gold mining; frontier; dispossession; territory. UNA GEOGRAFÍA POLÍTICA DEL ORO: SOBRE FRONTERA, MINEROS Y DESPOSESIÓN Y EN LA VOLTA GRANDE DO XINGU Resumen: El concepto de territorio ha sufrido importantes transformaciones, requeridas tanto por las prácticas de su uso como por los cambios en las dinámicas del poder, especialmente en relación a los límites a los que se ven sometidas las relaciones sociales de poder debido a los cambios ambientales y las llamadas fuerzas de la naturaleza. Así como ya no se puede hablar de territorio sin hablar de sus bases "naturales", no se puede hablar de "poder" sin su profunda conjugación con las "fuerzas" de la naturaleza. Muchas personas que viven esta inseparabilidad enfrentan el terricidio, ya que la existencia de sus culturas depende de la interacción con un territorio específico que está siendo amenazado. La dimensión material, corpórea y/o “natural” del territorio es cada vez más importante, vista en la múltiple riqueza - la multiterritorialidad - de sus manifestaciones, involucrando el espacio de todos los seres vivos.Palabras clave: territorio, corporificación, naturaleza, terricidio, multiterritorialidad

The World Underfoot

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hallie M. Franks
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Physiological Reaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
Social Gathering ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Ideal

In the Greek Classical period, the symposium—the social gathering at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in conversation—was held in a room called the andron. From couches set up around the perimeter of the andron, symposiasts looked inward to the room’s center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These mosaics provided visual treats for the guests, presenting them with images of mythological scenes, exotic flora, dangerous beasts, hunting parties, or the specter of Dionysos, the god of wine, riding in his chariot or on the back of a panther. This book takes as its subject these mosaics and the context of their viewing. Relying on discourses in the sociology and anthropology of space, it argues that the andron’s mosaic imagery actively contributed to a complex, metaphorical experience of the symposium. In combination with the ritualized circling of the wine cup from couch to couch around the room and the physiological reaction to wine, the images of mosaic floors called to mind other images, spaces, or experiences, and, in doing so, prompted drinkers to reimagine the symposium as another kind of event—a nautical voyage, a journey to a foreign land, the circling heavens or a choral dance, or the luxury of an abundant past. Such spatial metaphors helped to forge the intimate bonds of friendship that are the ideal result of the symposium and that make up the political and social fabric of the Greek polis.

Approaches to Supporting Local and Community Development

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesel Mack Filgueiras ◽  
Andreia Rabetim ◽  
Isabel Aché Pillar
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Mining Company ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mining Investment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Social

Reflection about the role of community engagement and corporate social investment in Brazil, associated with the presence of a large economic enterprise, is the major stimulus of this chapter. It seeks to present how cross-sector governance can contribute to the social development of a city and how this process can be led by a partnership comprising a corporate foundation, government, and civil society. The concept of the public–private social partnership (PPSP) is explored: a strategy for building a series of inter-sectoral alliances aimed at promoting the sustainable development of territories where the company has large-scale enterprises, through joint efforts towards integrated long-term strategic planning, around a common agenda. To this end, the case of Canaã dos Carajás is introduced, a municipality in the State of Pará, in the Amazon region, where large-scale mining investment is being carried out by the mining company Vale SA.

Concepts for reconstruction of the maritime economy of the polish underground state...in the years 1940–1944

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (324) ◽  
pp. 142-151
Author(s):  
Bogdan Chrzanowski
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Maritime Economy ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
The Military

The regaining of the country’s independence, and then its revival after the war damages, including itseconomic infrastructure – these were the tasks set by the Polish government in exile, first in Paris and thenin London. The maritime economy was to play an important role here. The Polish government was fullyaware of the enormous economic and strategic benefits resulting from the fact that it had a coast, withthe port of Gdynia before the war. It was assumed that both in Gdynia and in the ports that were to belongto Poland after the war: Szczecin, Kołobrzeg, Gdańsk, Elbląg, Królewiec, the economic structure was to betransformed, and they were to become the supply points for Central and Eastern Europe. Work on thereconstruction of the post-war maritime economy was mainly carried out by the Ministry of Industry, Tradeand Shipping. In London, in 1942–1943, a number of government projects were set up to rebuild the entiremaritime infrastructure. All projects undertaken in exile were related to activities carried out by individualunderground divisions of the Polish Underground State domestically, i.e. the “Alfa” Naval Department of theHome Army Headquarters, the Maritime Department of the Military Bureau of Industry and Trade of the Headof the Military Bureau of the Home Army Headquarters and the Maritime Department of the Departmentof Industry Trade and Trade Delegation of the Government of the Republic of Poland in Poland. The abovementionedorganizational units also prepared plans for the reconstruction of the maritime economy, and theprojects developed in London were sent to the country. They collaborated here and a platform for mutualunderstanding was found.

Grafinscripties

Lampas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-65
Author(s):  
Onno van Nijf
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Archaic Period ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Frequent Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Funerary Inscriptions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article offers a brief introduction to the most frequent type of inscription: funerary inscriptions or epitaphs. The article offers a chronological overview from the Archaic period to late Antiquity, with an emphasis on Athens. It opens with a brief discussion of the archaeological and ritual contexts in which funerary inscriptions were set up, followed by a discussion of archaic epigrams and the social strategies that lay behind them. This is followed by a discussion of public and private graves that shows how epigraphic habits changed over time. The article continues with a discussion of funerary epigraphic habits outside Athens and closes with a few examples of Christian epitaphs.

scholarly journals Developing partnerships in a paradigm shift to achieve conservation reality in South Africa

Koedoe ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Els ◽  
J. Du P. Bothma
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Rural Community Development ◽  
The Social

In South Africa, communal rural community development has, for the most part, been viewed as an add-on, rather than as an integral value in the broad spectrum of conservation activities being practised in the country. This paper, therefore, argues for the reality-based adoption of an extension of existing conservation paradigms to incorporate the development of communal rural communities as an integral part of the overall wildlife conservation and management policy in South Africa. The answer to the seeming contradiction in the focus of wildlife conservation and rural development lies in the devel- opment of wildlife management programmes based on multi-disciplinary and multiinstitutional interaction, by also harnessing scientific knowledge and skills found in the social sciences. In this manner, the present largely lip service related to so-called com- munity participation in wildlife management can be changed into programmes which really achieve conservation-based community development enhancing survival for both the communities and their inherent natural resources.

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