Socio-spatial inequality, subject and mining in Latin America

Abstract

There is a close relationship between the dramatic urban-rural existence of indigenous peoplesand the inherent conflicts in Latin American mining. Thus, the objective of this article is to deepen the notion of durable spatial situation with the analysis of the social impacts of mining in Latin America. Methodologically, three procedures are adopted: i) explanation on the subject«territory«desire-to-live interaction process (via Latin American decolonial debate and Sartrean existentialist debate) and ii) mapping of urban-rural social conditions in Latin American countries, which promote a tragic mining situation (data from Eclac, and critical social theory of modernity/coloniality). The historical and genocidal Latin American extractivist logic is totalized, it annihilates lives, while activating mechanisms of duration of the subject located throughout centuries, presenting the thesis of the double dialectic: subject«territory «wanting-to-live and subject«world«wanting-to-live.

Key word: durable spatial situation. natives.afro-descendants.urban-rural. decoloniality.