Mining Formalization at the Margins of the State: Small‐scale Miners and State Governance in the Peruvian Amazon
Mining Formalization at the Margins of the State: Small‐scale Miners and State Governance in the Peruvian Amazon
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国家边缘的采矿正规化：秘鲁亚马逊地区的小规模矿工和国家治理
DOI：
10.1111/dech.12414
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
G. Damonte
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作者：
G. Damonte
本文分析了秘鲁政府寻求将亚马逊地区的小规模采矿正规化的政治过程，这表明国家治理问题是如何在国家边缘重现的。它询问为什么中央政府无法管理马德雷德迪奥斯地区的采矿活动，并研究了小规模矿工对国家试图将其活动正规化的反应。作者认为，通过政治代理和“混合”正式和非正式制度的复制，小规模矿工已经学会了质疑，重新解释和建立中央政府治理的替代方案。这篇文章有助于发展政策的文献，显示如何在执行监管政策的困难可能被分析为治理问题，特别是在像亚马逊地区，那里的国家机器没有很好地建立。
This article analyses the Peruvian government's quest to formalize small‐scale mining in the Amazon as a political process which shows how state governance problems are reproduced in the margins of the state. It asks why the central state is unable to govern mining activities in the Madre de Dios region, and examines how small‐scale miners have reacted to state attempts to formalize their activities. The author argues that, through political agency and the reproduction of ‘hybrid’ formal and informal institutions, small‐scale miners have learned to contest, reinterpret and build alternatives to central state governance. The article contributes to the literature on development policies by showing how difficulties in implementing regulatory policies may be analysed as governance problems, particularly in regions like the Amazon, where the state apparatus is not well established.