FLAGSTAFF — NAU Dept. of Comparative Cultural Studies will present “Disrupting mining in Honduras: Hegemony, territorial struggles, and contradictions of the neoliberal mafia-state” with Nate Edenhofe at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 21 at Liberal Arts 136.
Anti-mining movements have put extractivism on the defensive in Honduras.
Why did mining production fail to expand in Honduras despite some of—if not the— most aggressive pro-extractive reforms on the continent?
Both existing theories of extractivism and social movements have difficulty explaining this outcome.
Interrogate the conflict between extraction and public health and the environment with Nate Edenhofer of the University of California at Santa Cruz who has done extensive research on the subject as demonstrated in Honduras. He will share information gathered from 45 interviews with Hondurans and trace the strategies of capital, the state, and social movements.
Learn how the economic, ideological, and emotional foundations of extractive hegemony were undermined in Honduras through the coercive approach of pro-mining actors; the development of anti-extractivist consciousness via antagonistic struggle and organization; and a neoliberal state stuck in a contradiction.
Co-sponsored by NAU’s Latin American Studies Program and the Dept. of Politics and International Affairs.