(En)Countering Extraction in Peru

20 June 2016 @ Newcastle University, Barbara Strang Teaching Centre B30

10:00-10.15 Introductions
10.15-10.40 Ursula Balderson (Newcastle University)
Wrangling and Entanglements: Understanding mine-community relations at a site in Ancash
10.40-11.05 Inge Boudewijn (Northumbria University)
Understanding gendered dimensions of large-scale mining: addressing womens changing livelihood
strategies in affected communities in the Peruvian Andes
11.05-11.30 Katy Jenkins (Northumbria University)
Making the Extraordinary Everyday: Women anti-mining activists narratives of staying put and carrying
on in Peru and Ecuador
11.30-12.00 Discussion
12.00-1.00 Lunch
1.00-1.25 Lexy Seedhouse (Newcastle University)
Be(com)ing Indigenous in the Time of Extraction: (Re)articulating Identities in the Context of Perus Ley
de Consulta Previa.
1.25-1.50 Sarah Bennison (Newcastle University)
You are what you speak: language, land and Peru's take on Convention 169
1.50-2.10 Discussion
2.10-2.30 Coffee break
2.30-2.55 Cynthia del Castillo Tafur (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru)
Gas, Compensation and the Diversification of Livelihoods in the Peruvian Amazon: The case of the
Camisea Project and the Machiguenga indigenous population
2.55-3.20 Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti (Durham University)
Paita ikanteteri desarrollo? (What would you say is development?): Conversations about development
at the extractive frontier in the Peruvian Amazon
3.20-3.40 Discussion
3.40 Wrap up

*Please contact juan-pablo.sarmiento-barletti@durham.ac.uk for more information*

Participants
URSULA BALDERSON [s.u.balderson@newcastle.ac.uk] is a PhD student at Newcastle University. She has
recently competed fieldwork on mining conflicts and mining-community relations in Ancash, Peru. She is
interested in the complicated relationships that develop between mines and their host communities with the
aim of better understanding different formulations of environmentalism and how the discourses sustaining
them interact with each other.
SARAH BENNISON [sarah.bennison@newcastle.ac.uk] is an interdisciplinary researcher with a primary
interest in the relationship between identity and landscape in the Peruvian Andes. Critically, her work
engages with emergent debates in cosmopolitics and explores the (re)production of identity 'on the ground'
in relation to International Labour Organisation and Peruvian State approaches to defining indigeneity in the
context of Prior Consultation Law. She recently completed an AHRC-funded PhD thesis based in the School
of Modern Languages at Newcastle University where she explored cosmopolitical oral narratives relating to
the animate landscape of the Concha and Checa kin groups of San Damin, Huarochir.
INGE BOUDEWIJN [inge.boudewijn@northumbria.ac.uk] is a second year PhD student at the centre for
international development at Northumbria University. Her research seeks to describe and analyse shifts in
the livelihood strategies of women in communities affected by large scale mining; specifically, related to the
Yanacocha mine in Cajamarca, northern Peru. She plans to start her data collection in the late summer of
2016, for a duration of six months. Her interests include the social aspects and impacts of natural resource
extraction, social movements and feminist methodology.
CYNTHIA DEL CASTILLO TAFUR [cynthia.delcastillotafur@gmail.com] holds a MSc in Anthropology,
Environment and Development from University College London, and a BA in Sociology from Pontificia
Universidad Catolica del Peru. Cynthia has conducted research in the Peruvian Amazon for seven years, as
part of a study led by Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP) and the Biodiversity Monitoring
Programme from the Camisea Gas Project. She has extensive fieldwork experience in Machiguenga
indigenous communities along the lower Urubamba River, where she has explored the impacts that
hydrocarbon companies have on the local indigenous population. Particularly, she is interested in the social
changes taking place in Machiguenga communities, and Machiguenga womens agency and coping
strategies within their households and communities. Cynthia has also worked for the Social Responsibility
Academic Department from PUCP as Environmental Programme Coordinator.
KATY JENKINS [katy.jenkins@northumbria.ac.uk] is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Northumbria
University. Her research focuses on gender and mining, looking at womens anti-mining activism, and
exploring social transformations in communities impacted by existing and proposed mining projects in Latin
America. She has conducted qualitative research in Ecuador, Peru and Chile. More broadly, Katy is
interested in activism, NGOs, professionalization, and the changing trajectories of activists. She has a
particular interest in feminist and participatory methodologies, and has recently been awarded a Leverhulme
Fellowship for a participatory photography research project with women activists in the Peruvian Andes.
Katy is Programme Leader for the MSc International Development at Northumbria University, and CoDirector of the Centre for International Development. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of International
Development and a member of the Society for Latin America Studies committee.
JUAN PABLO SARMIENTO BARLETTI [juan-pablo.sarmiento-barletti@durham.ac.uk] is a Lecturer in the
Anthropology of Development at Durham University. He is interested in the interface between wellbeing,
international development, and political violence. Juan Pablo has carried out extensive ethnographic

research with Ashaninka people, the largest indigenous Amazonian society, on the centrality of wellbeing in
their experience of the Peruvian civil war (1980-2000), and of the natural resource extraction agenda set by
the Peruvian state in the wake of war. He is interested in how his Ashaninka collaborators experience and
know extractivism, the obvious impact it has on Ashaninka everyday lives, and the less obvious impact it has
on their socio-natural relations with the other-than-human beings that live around them.
LEXY SEEDHOUSE [a.seedhouse@newcastle.ac.uk] is a doctoral student in Human Geography at Newcastle
University. Her research explores the contextual situation; and historical, political, economic and cultural
significances within which contemporary extractive projects operate in Peru. Based on two years of
fieldwork in Lima, Cuzco and the province of Espinar, she argues that historical and contemporary analyses
of Peruvian indigenous identity formation cannot be understood separately from the extractive industries.
Using the recent context of the Ley de Consulta Previa (Law of Prior Consultation) as a frame of analysis, she
employs a mixed qualitative methodology, including multi-scalar ethnography, to interrogate the multiple
ways that indigenous identities are being understood, embodied and contested in Peru today.