Talk:Mineral industry of Peru

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Hi everyone, my name is Shivani Raman and I plan on editing and adding to this article as part of my "Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities" course at Rice University. I have provided below my rationale for revising and expanding upon this article the references I plan to use. I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have.

Rationale for Revising and Adding to “Mineral industry of Peru” Article:

Insubstantial discussion of environmental impacts and social protest:

While this article extensively discusses the economic impacts of the mineral industry in Peru, it only briefly mentions its environmental and social impacts. I will improve this article by expanding on the environmental issues already mentioned and introducing additional concerns. Furthermore, I will show how the environmental impacts of Peru’s mineral industry have given rise to social protest. I will provide details about the specific populations that have been most affected and describe the nature of their protests. These points are important to include in the article because they will provide insight into the interplay of industrial activity, the natural environment, and social unrest. Ultimately, they will contribute new viewpoints about the main topic and allow for a more well-balanced, neutral article.

Insubstantial discussion of governmental/political response:

Following the section about environmental impacts and social protest, I will add a new section that discusses government response to the social upheaval caused by corporate-community conflict. This is important to mention because it will reveal the nature of Peru’s institutional organization (extractive versus inclusive) in the context of its economic development.

Insubstantial discussion of national economic growth:

This article has very little information about the mineral industry’s contribution to national economic growth. I will expand on the information that had already been provided to ensure that all viewpoints about the mineral industry in Peru are equally represented in the article. Sraman195 (talk) 15:28, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Bibliography

Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. (This book discusses extractive versus inclusive institutions. Extractive institutions are those that “concentrate power in the hands of a narrow elite and place few constraints on the exercise of this power” and “extract resources from the rest of the society.” On the other hand, inclusive institutions are those that “make power broadly distributed in society and constrain its arbitrary exercise” and “create a more equitable distribution of resources.” Peru as a nation has qualities of both extractive and inclusive institutions; however, the content of my additions to this article will mainly focus on its extractive properties.)

The following articles describe how the mineral industry in Peru has compromised the livelihoods of rural populations and discusses the rise of peasant protests:

Bebbington, Anthony, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury, Jeannet Lingan, Juan Pablo Muñoz, and Martin Scurrah. "Mining and Social Movements: Struggles Over Livelihood and Rural Territorial Development in the Andes." World Development 36, no. 12 (2008): 2888-905.

Bury, Jeffrey Todd. "Livelihoods, Mining and Peasant Protests in the Peruvian Andes." Journal of Latin American Geography 1, no. 1 (2002): 1-19.

Bury, Jeffrey. "Mining Mountains: Neoliberalism, Land Tenure, Livelihoods, and the New Peruvian Mining Industry in Cajamarca." Environ. Plann. A Environment and Planning A 37, no. 2 (2005): 221-39.

Echave, José De. "Peruvian Peasants Confront the Mining Industry." Socialism and Democracy 19, no. 3 (2005): 117-27.

Triscritti, F. "Mining, Development and Corporate-community Conflicts in Peru." Community Development Journal 48, no. 3 (2013): 437-50.

The following articles provide potential methods of resolving corporate-community conflict in relation to Peru’s mineral industry:

Gifford, Blair, Andrew Kestler, and Sharmila Anand. "Building Local Legitimacy into Corporate Social Responsibility: Gold Mining Firms in Developing Nations." Journal of World Business 45, no. 3 (2010): 304-11.

Gifford, Blair, and Andrew Kestler. "Toward a Theory of Local Legitimacy by MNEs in Developing Nations: Newmont Mining and Health Sustainable Development in Peru." Journal of International Management 14, no. 4 (2008): 340-52.

Jaskoski, Maiah. "Environmental Licensing and Conflict in Peru's Mining Sector: A Path-Dependent Analysis." World Development 64 (2014): 873-83.

Li, Fabiana. "Documenting Accountability: Environmental Impact Assessment in a Peruvian Mining Project." PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 32, no. 2 (2009): 218-36.

This article provides a broad overview of Peru’s mineral industry, discussing aspects such as economic growth, government policies and programs, production, the structure of the mineral industry, and more:

Gurmendi, Alfredo C. The Mineral Industry of Peru. US Geological Survey Minerals, 2001.

This book introduces the human capabilities approach, an approach to development that describes what people are able “to do and to be” and “what real opportunities are available to them.” In the context of this article, Peruvian citizens living in rural communities are deprived of their capability to sustain themselves/maintain their livelihoods due to environmental degradation:

Nussbaum, Martha Craven. Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. 2011. Sraman195 (talk) 22:01, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Sraman195. Peer reviewers: Trs6, Cpm5.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 04:13, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review

The article is very comprehensive and touches on all the aspects of the mineral industry I can think of – from a historical overview to government policies to a commodity review to the current controversy regarding the impact of mining. I think that the article does a good job of maintaining a neutral viewpoint despite having plenty of places where opinions could be inserted. I would suggest that editors make an attempt to make the technical “Commodity review” easier to read and explain units of measurement and their significance to the audience (or at least add more links to other pages that could explain it). I would also break up the “Government policies and programs” section into subsections to increase readability and help readers find information they are looking for quickly. One or two more pictures to break up the walls of text would be nice as well! This would improve readability of the article for all people. The most important thing for editors to do next is to add more sources to the article as there are currently eight and there’s still a lot of text in the article (most comes from three sources). That means that there needs to be more sources to diversify the text. Trs6 (talk) 16:38, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Peer Review

Great job on editing this article—you were very thorough and you added in some great images and reputable sources. I particularly appreciated how you added the “Controversy” section to the article—it really made the article seemed more balanced, as most of the article praised the mineral industry in Peru. I would suggest framing some of your comments in that section as coming directly from your sources though, as it sometimes seemed overly opinionated. Having those reputable authors directly in there would increase that neutral tone. I would also suggest adding in more WikiLinks throughout the entirety of the article—doing so would make it a lot easier to follow, as I struggled a little bit with that due to my lack of background knowledge! All in all, great work and best of luck in your future edits! Cpm5 (talk) 23:31, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Explanations for Edits

In the first paragraph (lead) of the article, I have decided to remove the names of the countries after which Peru is ranked in mineral production. This information makes the first sentence hard to follow and overwhelms the reader with unnecessary facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sraman195 (talk • contribs) 21:30, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Peer Review II

The editors of the article have only continued to improve the status of the article. The lead section, most notably, has improved. The first paragraph is much easier to read without getting lost in a sea of parentheses and successfully shows the importance of the topic. The addition of a small paragraph dealing with controversy makes the lead section more balanced between all subsections of the article. There is also a significant increase in links from the article.One thing I might change is the paragraph about all the privatization and investment; it seems to disproportionately comprise almost a majority of the lead section. I think the most important thing authors of the article could do is add a few more credible references to round out the article. Trs6 (talk) 21:34, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Second Peer Review

The author did an excellent job in editing this article—in particular, the lead section is now much more streamlined and easier to understand and there are more WikiLinks throughout the article! In the future, the author could go over the “Government Response” subsection in order to ensure a more neutral tone and streamline the part of the article where lots of minerals are listed (as that takes up an unnecessarily large portion of the article, in my eyes). Great work! Cpm5 (talk) 16:26, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Badly out of date

This article is dominated by discussions about events prior to 2006. They may be of historical interest, or not. I hope that someone with perspective will update this article. Charles Clark (talk) 16:13, 29 September 2021 (UTC)