Main Seminar: MINING AND THE PERUVIAN STATE: Social And Environmental Sustainability

Convener(s):

Speaker(s): John Crabtree, LAC; Hernan Manrique, Pembroke College, Oxford; and Alvaro Paredes Valderrama, St Catherine's College, Cambridge.

John Crabtree is research associate at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford. He holds a master’s degree from Liverpool University and a doctorate from Oxford Brookes University. His work has covered political party systems, social movements and business elites. His most recent published books include Business Power and the State in the Central Andes: Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru in Comparison, co-authored with Francisco Durand and Jonas Wolff (Pittsburgh University Press, 2023). Previous books include Peru: Elite Power and Political Capture, co-authored with Francisco Durand) (Zed, 2017); Bolivia Processes of Change, co-authored with Ann Chaplin) (Zed, 2013); and Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia Past and Present, co-edited with Laurence Whitehead (Pittsburgh, 2008).

Hernan Manrique is a postdoctoral researcher in the Global Security Program at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD from the Department of Biology (Division of Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation) at KU Leuven, as well as an MSc in statistics and data science and an MSc in sustainable development from the same university, and a BA in sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú  (PUCP) in Lima. His research integrates geographic information systems and remote sensing with ethnographic fieldwork to evaluate the dynamics of illicit economies, development, security and environmental degradation in frontier regions, particularly across the Amazon biome and the Amazon-Andes interface.

Alvaro Paredes Valderrama has an MPhil in economic and political sociology from the University of Cambridge and a BA in sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His research focuses on development and inequality, extractive industries with an emphasis on mining, and citizenship. He is a research associate of the Centro de Estudios de Minería y Sostenibilidad (CEMS) at the Universidad del Pacífico. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of Cambridge, where he is developing an approach to inequality in globalized capitalism, based on a critique of Anglo-American sociology from a Peruvian Marxist perspective.