 Environmental justice organizations and the diffusion of conflicts over mining in Latin AmericaBryce W. Reeder, Moises Arce and Adrian Siefkas World Development, 2022, vol. 154, issue C Abstract: Existing research has explored the factors affecting the likelihood of resistance to mining projects. These studies emphasize the geographic and firm-level characteristics of mining sites as well as the impact of these projects on the environment and community livelihoods. While making important contributions, the existing literature has failed to examine the contagion effects of conflicts over mining. Building on the literature on the diffusion of social movements, we argue that environmental justice organizations (EJOs) help diffuse mining conflicts through interpersonal networks involving individuals or organizations, organizational brokers as well as communication strategies through the mass media. Our spatial econometric analysis demonstrates that mining conflicts cluster in time and space and that EJO networks are the primary drivers of diffusion. The diffusion effects associated with EJOs help our understanding of local resistance to mining and represent an important pattern explaining the expansion of social conflicts in Latin America. Keywords: Mining; Diffusion; Extraction; Conflict; Environmental justice; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:154:y:2022:i:c:s0305750x22000730 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105883 Access Statistics for this article World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes More articles in World Development from Elsevier |
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