Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of violence.
Through an ethnographic and systematic comparison of four gold-mining conflicts in Peru, Resisting Extractivism presents a vivid account of subtle and routine forms of violence, analyzing how meaning-making practices render certain types of damage and suffering noticeable while occluding others.
The book thus builds a theory of violence from the groun.
Vanderbilt University Press Resisting extractivism: peruvian gold, everyday violence, and the politics of attention, paperback/michael wilson becerril
