Goldcorp y la reciprocidad negativa en el paisaje minero de Mezcala, Guerrero

Authors

  • Claudio Garibay Orozco Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social-Occidente, Guadalajara, México
  • Alejandra Balzaretti Camacho

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https://doi.org/10.29340/30.414

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This paper shows how the transnational corporation Goldcorp Inc., in order to profit from open sky gold mining in the collective lands of three Mexican peasant communities, relates with the local societies based on the principle of negative reciprocity, understood as “attempting, with impunity, to obtain something without giving anything in exchange”. It also illustrates the procedures used by Goldcorp to obtain control of the gold source, achieve the political entrapment of the communities, and impose a micro-regional dominance regime based on coercion. Finally, it analyzes the local social reactions to negative reciprocity, mostly demonstrations and road-blocking protests, which renew local discourses about “justice” and propose a moral renegotiation between the corporation and the local community.

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Published

2014-02-13

Issue

No. 30 (2009)

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ESQUINAS

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Goldcorp y la reciprocidad negativa en el paisaje minero de Mezcala, Guerrero. (2014). Desacatos. Revista De Ciencias Sociales, 30, 91-110. https://doi.org/10.29340/30.414