Latin American Studies presents “Disrupting Mining in Honduras: Hegemony, Territorial Struggles, and Contradictions of the Neo-Liberal Mafia-State,” a talk by Nate Edenhofer (University of California Santa Cruz) on February 8 at 6 p.m. in Liberal Art room 136. This event is co-sponsored by the department of Politics and International Affairs and the department of Comparative Cultural Studies.
Anti-mining movements have put extractivism on the defensive in Honduras.‌ Why did mining production fail to expand in Honduras despite some of—if not the— most aggressive pro-extractive reforms on the continent?‌ Both existing theories of extractivism and social movements have difficulty explaining this outcome.
Interrogate the conflict between extraction, public health, and the environment with Nate Edenhofer of UCSC. He will share information gathered from 45 interviews with Hondurans and trace the strategies of capital, the state, and social movements.‌ Learn how the economic, ideological, and emotional foundations of extractive hegemony were undermined in Honduras through the coercive approach of pro-mining actors; the development of anti-extractivist consciousness via antagonistic struggle and organization; and a neoliberal state stuck in a contradiction.‌
