Browsing by Author "Atienza, Miguel"

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    Formalization beyond legalization: ENAMI and the promotion of small-scale mining in Chile
    (2023) Atienza, Miguel; Scholvin, Soren; Irarrazaval, Felipe; Arias-Loyola, Martin
    This article explains how ENAMI, the Chilean National Mining Company (ENAMI), has legalized and formalized artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). The experience reveals how promoting formalization strategies that provide much broader support for ASM, beyond mining licenses and tenure rights (i.e., legalization), defined as formalization (e.g., geological data, mining equipment, and skills transfer programs), is vital. Information gathered from secondary sources and semi-structured interviews reveals that while legalization of ASM has been largely successful in Chile, there are still challenges in terms of formalization, especially improvement of exploration and production. Furthermore, ENAMI needs to modernize its own installations and development model to afford ASM greater opportunities of becoming a sustainable and competitive business activity.
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    Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy: Networks, Scales and Places of Extraction
    (Springer Nature, 2021) Irarrázaval Irarrázaval, Felipe; Arias-Loyola, Martín; Ciccantell, Paul S.; Scholvin, Sören; Dodge, Alexander; Martinus, Kirsten; Loginova, Julia; Sigler, Thomas; Kotilainen, Juha; Giraudo, Maria Eugenia; Watts, Michael John; Bustos, Beatriz; Ramírez, María Inés; Rudolf, Marco; Atienza, Miguel; Irarrázaval Irarrázaval, Felipe; Arias-Loyola, Martín
    This book discusses the conditions that underpin configuration of specific places as resource peripheries and the consequences that such a socio-spatial formation involves for those places. The book thereby provides an interdisciplinary approach underpinned by economic geography, political ecology, resource geography, development studies and political geography. It also discusses the different technological, political and economic changes that make the ongoing production of resource peripheries a distinctive socio-spatial formation under the global economy. Through a global and interdisciplinary perspective that uncovers ongoing political processes, socio-economic changes and socio-ecological dynamics at resource peripheries, this book argues that it is critical to take a more profound appraisal about the socio-spatial processes behind the contemporary way in which capitalism is appropriating and transforming nature.