Published November 21, 2011
by iris_author
CERLAC presents
Water and the Mining City:
Wealth, Urbanity and Environment in Cerro de Pasco, Peru
with visiting speaker
Federico Helfgott
Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History
University of Michigan
In an era of intensified extractive activity in Latin America and other parts of the world, the relationship between mineral wealth and livelihood has become a topic of debate and analysis. This talk will examine one aspect of this relationship in a particular site, the traditional mining city of Cerro de Pasco in central Peru. In spite of having once been associated with a corporation heralded for bringing modernity to this region, the city remains excluded from one of the supposed markers of urban life, namely an adequate supply of running water. We will examine the reasons for this by taking a historical approach, one that looks at geography and environment as well as social changes, ideologies and the nature of mineral wealth.
Thursday, Nov 24, 2011
3:00 - 4:30 pm
956 YRT (York Research Tower)
York University
More information: cerlac@yorku.ca
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