Geography
Document Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
The work in question addresses the relationships between mining, local development and democracy, and the thus-far most contentious part of this research has focused on a region affected by a mining project executed by a UK based "resource development" company. This specific part of the research has been conducted in conjunction with a UK based solidarity organization, the Peru Support Group as well as with Oxfam UK's office in Perú. The criticism of meddling came from the director in Peru of the Chinese consortium that in early 2007 acquired majority ownership of the mining company – the title paraphrases his challenge to me in a public meeting in Lima discussing our work. Meanwhile the criticism of ethnocentrism came from an economic advisor to the regional government of Piura, the department in which this project was to be developed – an administration that is controlled by the ruling party and fully endorses the expansion of the mineral economy in Piura, as a means (inter alia) of generating the tax revenue it requires for its proposed public works and infrastructural programmes. Our ethnocentricity lay, he insisted, in our use of an analytical framework that in large measure traced its origins to Sen's work on capabilities. The fact that we had done this constituted one more exercise of Northern power on the South.
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Publication Title
Antipode
Publication Date
2009
Volume
41
Issue
1
First Page
199
Last Page
202
ISSN
0066-4812
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00662.x
Keywords
cooperative behavior, resource management, Peru, mining
Repository Citation
Bebbington, Anthony J., ""Please Mr Bebbington, don't come here and tell us what to do"" (2009). Geography. 496.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/496
Copyright Conditions
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Bebbington, Anthony. "Please Mr. Bebbington, don't come here and tell us what to do." Antipode 41.1 (2009): 199-202., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00662.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
