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Canadian Mining Investments in Argentina and the Construction of a Mining–Development Nexus
Author(s) -
Saguier Marcelo,
Peinado Guillermo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
latin american policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.195
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2041-7373
pISSN - 2041-7365
DOI - 10.1111/lamp.12107
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , cognitive reframing , context (archaeology) , agency (philosophy) , argument (complex analysis) , politics , mining industry , state (computer science) , resistance (ecology) , political science , economy , sociology , economics , social science , geography , engineering , law , psychology , social psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , mining engineering , ecology , archaeology , algorithm , computer science , biology , embedded system
This article explores the relations between Argentina and Canada through the mining sector during the political cycle of Kirchnerism (2003–2015). Mining has been a growing economic sector but also a source of social resistance capable of mobilizing a regulatory agenda that sets restrictions to this activity. State political agency has been central to managing these tensions. How has the state responded to the growth of the mining industry? What has been Canada's role in this process? The claim is that Kirchnerism's response to growing anti‐mining resistance in a context of macroeconomic tensions has been to reframe transnational mining as consistent with a national development outlook. We explore this argument by looking at changes at the material, discursive, and institutional dimensions of the mining–development nexus.