One World, Many Ethics. The Politics of Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Atacama, Chile

This dissertation investigates the impacts of the mining economy on the lives of indigenous peoples in the city of Calama and Atacameno villages in the Loa River basin in northern Chile. It explores overlapping ethical systems that shape views of fairness and the environment: indigenous communities and mining corporation's views. The central inquiry revolves around reaching an understanding of how different underlying ethical systems and interrelated ideologies influence political decisions regarding what communities and lives will be allowed to persist and which will have to perish. This relationship between economics, politics, and morality will advance knowledge of the status of corporation-community relations and identify the main obstacles to sustainable positive relations in the future.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Graduate College

Grantor dc:publisher

The University of Arizona.

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Carrasco, Anita

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Park, Thomas K

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Greenberg, James
• Lansing, Stephen
• Nichter, Mark
• Bauer, Carl

• Chile
• Ideology
• Indigenous Peoples
• Mining
• Water

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10150/145451

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.arizona.edu:10150/145451