Fwd: [entitle_core] FW: [LACS] FW: funded PhD studentship - gender and mining in the Andes
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Subject: [entitle_core] FW: [LACS] FW: funded PhD studentship - gender and mining in the Andes
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Professor of Geography
School of Environment and Development
Manchester University
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Subject: [LACS] FW: funded PhD studentship - gender and mining in the Andes
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Dear All,
Please see the link below for details of a funded studentship looking at the gendered impacts of mining and mining conflict in the Andes. I am very happy to discuss informally with interested applicants. Deadline for applications is 14th April 2014.
Thanks,
Katy
Exploring the gendered impacts of mining and mining conflicts in the Andes
Principal Supervisor – Dr Katy Jenkins
The most recent mining ‘boom’ to hit Latin America has been gathering momentum since the mid-1990s, with both an intensification of extractive activities and the significant expansion of extractive industries into geographical areas not previously exploited
for their mineral wealth (Bebbington, 2009). However, such large scale mineral extraction is increasingly being contested by communities and activists across the global South, particularly in relation to issues around land use and environmental degradation,
water use, human rights abuses, and threats to rural livelihoods.
Despite widespread community struggles to prevent mining developments, or limit further expansion of existing mining operations, little is known about the social, cultural and personal impacts of both mining and mining conflict on communities, families and
individuals, and this is particularly important in a context in which criminalisation and violent repression of anti-mining protest is becoming increasingly common across Latin America (Arellano-Yanguas 2012). This doctoral research therefore aims to understand
how proposed and actual mining developments, and the ongoing struggles against them, are impacting on Andean communities, as well as on individual anti-mining activists and their families. This will involve conducting ethnographic research in Andean peasant
communities, including communities where active mineral extraction is taking place, as well as those that continue to resist the arrival of mining companies.
The research will particularly focus on the gendered impacts of mining and mining conflict, an area that has had very little academic attention, despite a recognition by NGOs and practitioners that mining is not gender neutral, but impacts disproportionately
upon women, particular poor and rural women (Oxfam Australia 2009; Macdonald and Rowland 2002; Mines Minerals and People 2003). Issues that might be addressed in this context include health (including mental health), violence against women, women’s changing
roles and livelihoods, and prostitution.
The research will be facilitated by the Principal Supervisor’s established links with the Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme (LAMMP), the proposed partner organisation, whose extensive expertise and experience in the sector will support the student
in selection of, and negotiation of access to, relevant communities in the Andes affected by actual and proposed mining developments.
http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=53671
Dr Katy Jenkins
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Dept of Social Sciences and Languages
Northumbria University
Lipman Building, room 212
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
tel: 0191 227 3061
email: katy.j...@northumbria.ac.uk
Associate Editor for Journal of International Development
Programme Leader for the MSc International Development and Co-Director of the Centre for International Development
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