Article
Spanish
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oai:doaj.org/article:070f4a138a6246ecbc6ecc7b20e916ce>
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DOI: <
10.17141/letrasverdes.22.2017.2727>
Abstract
In this article, we study the social conflict linked to a mining mega-project in the area of inditag in Ecuador, from a perspective that combines critical geography and political ecology. We look at the extent to which the conflict, which started two decades ago, has led to significant changes in the territory of the area. We understand the creation of the Junín Community Reserve as a process of re-territorialisation, led by communities associated with the project and threatened by the territoriality that seeks to impose transnational megaminer capital. We highlight the relevance of the concept of de-re-territorialisation put forward by Haesbaert and show that, in the context of the accelerated conversion of territories to the logic of transnational capital in Latin America, we do not necessarily see a sequential dynamic of ‘des’ and then ‘re’ territorialisation by an external, national or transnational actor. Rather, this conversion is often an adversarial process in which antagonistic territorialities coexist.