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The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro

Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town

Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik

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This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom and bust to envision a multicentury series of mining cycles, first operated under Spanish rule, then by North American industry, and today in the post-NAFTA world of transnational capitalism. The depletion of a mine did not mark the end of its life, it turns out.

Evolving technology accelerated the flow of matter and energy moving through the extractive systems of exhausted mines and revived profitability over and over again in Mexico's mining districts. Studnicki-Gizbert demonstrates how this serial reanimation of a non-renewable resource was catalyzed by capital and supported by state policy and ideology and how each new cycle imposed ever more harmful consequences on both laborers and natural ecologies. At the same time, however, miners and their communities pursued a contending vision—a moral ecology—that defended the healthy reproduction of life and land. This book's breathtakingly long view brings important perspective to environmental justice conflicts around extraction in Latin America today.

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The history of mining in Mexico,  Chichimecan Wars, History of mining laws in Mexico, Commodity frontiers in Latin America, Moral ecology, Miners' rebellions in colonial Mexico, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, Social metabolism of mining, Political ecology of natural resources, Corporate social responsibility in mining, Contamination and environmental health in mining, Environmental justice movements in Latin America, Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico, Mine-workers' strikes in Mexico, Socio-ecological conflicts in Latin America, The Mexican Revolution and mining, History of the Toronto Stock exchange, Environmental history of mining, Canadian mining companies in Latin America, Mine-workers’ unions in Mexico,  Extractivism in Latin America