Gerardo Damonte Valencia (on leave)
Senior Researcher
PhD in Anthropology - Cornell University
gdamonte@grade.org.pe
Gerardo Damonte Valencia has an MA and PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University. He carries out research in the field of natural resources at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) (currently on leave) along with his teaching position in the Department of Political Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University in Peru.
Gerardo leads projects in three interrelated fields: extractive industries and rural society; local knowledge and climate change; and territories and social movements. The geographical focus of his work is Latin America, and in particular the Central Andes region.
Among his publications are “The Constitution of Political Actors: Peasant Communities and Mobilization in Bolivian and Peruvian Andes” (2008), as well as various articles on the social impacts of extractive development in the Andes
Publications
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Minería, escasez hídrica y la ausencia de una planificación colaborativa
2020 Gerardo Damonte, Julieta Godfrid, Ana Paula López
Water scarcity and inequitable access to water in cities close to large mining projects is, nowadays, an urgent issue that leads to recurring conflicts in the Andean region. Based on the comparison between two case studies in the Andes —one in Peru and the other in Argentina—, this article shows how current mining policy reproduces […]
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JournalEstudios Atacameños
Presentation: New capitalisms and territorial transformations in the Andean region
2019 Michiel Baud, Rutgerd Boelens, Gerardo Damonte
This presentation introduces a special issue that analyzes the new territorial configurations taking shape in the Andean region under the developmentalist governments of the 21st century. The new territorial projects seek to increase the extraction of resources, the transference of crucial products on local level, and economic development. This remodeling transforms the techno-natural, cultural and […]
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Hybrid Institutions Institutionalizing Practices in the Context of Extractive Expansion
2019 Gerardo Damonte
States face the challenge of developing institutions to govern the activities of social actors when an area under their control becomes the target of increased extractive activities. National and local public regulations safeguarding the environment, the assignment of extractive rights to individuals or companies, and handling of ensuing conflicts are developed in an institutional gray […]
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JournalEcology and Society
The constitution of hydrosocial power: agribusiness and water scarcity in Ica, Peru
2019 Gerardo Damonte
During the 2000s, the Ica region, located on the Peruvian coast, gained notoriety as the main stage of what the media and politicians called the “agricultural export miracle.” The exponential growth of nontraditional exports that ensued, along with the rising importance of the agroindustry in generating foreign currency, led to the emergence of an agribusiness […]
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JournalWater International
Hydrosocial territories, agro-export and water scarcity: capitalist territorial transformations and water governance in Peru’s coastal valleys
2019 Gerardo Damonte, Rutgerd Boelens
In recent decades, an agro-export boom has deeply transformed Peru’s coastal valleys, resulting in dramatic territorial changes and social inequality in the Ica Valley. This article explains how politico-economic and socio-institutional forces have triggered the emergence of a new ‘hydrosocial territory’, transforming the Ica Valley into a virtual-water extraction zone that produces luxury export crops […]
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Imágenes en negociación: la entrada de la nueva minería a la esfera pública nacional.
Mirando la esfera pública desde la cultura2006 Gerardo Damonte
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Perú: ¿paz social o desarrollo sustentable?
Empresas mineras y desarrollo local en América Latina: Chile, Colombia y Perú2003 Gerardo Damonte, Camilo León, Boris Dávila, Fide Rocha
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Peru: learning by doing
Large mines and the community socioeconomic and environmental effects in Latin America, Canada and Spain2001 Alberto Pascó-Font, Gerardo Damonte, Ricardo Fort, Guillermo Salas
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Apuntes sobre el teniente gobernador
Autoridades en espacio locales: una mirada desde la antropología2000 Gerardo Damonte
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Managing Conflict Through Consultation: Latin America’s Experience
2012 Gerardo Damonte
This Brief characterises and analyses the different types of local consultation seen in the region, focusing on the diverse actors that lead the processes and providing illustrative examples of each.
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Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT: Rethinking the Conservation vs. Extraction Dilemma
2012 Gerardo Damonte
Ecuador’s innovative proposal for not developing its Yasuní-Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini (Yasuní-ITT) oil fields presents an alternative strategy for resolving the conservation versus extractive industry development dilemma.
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From Expropriation to Social Licence: Accessing Land for Extractive Industries
2012 Gerardo Damonte
This brief describes the key factors that have enabled this transformation, and provides examples to illustrate the main social licence strategies in use in Latin America.
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Maximising Investment and Rent Capture Through Extractive Industries Investment Policies: the Latin American Experience
2012 Gerardo Damonte, Manuel Glave
This Guide presents a concise introduction to the different Latin American policy models applied to promote development in the oil, mining and gas sectors, while at the same time, laying the foundation for sustainable economic development.
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Accessing Land for Extractive Industries: Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Approaches
2012 Gerardo Damonte, Manuel Glave
This Guide considers this question by presenting and analysing different policy responses related to land use and extractive industries in Latin America today.
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Presentations
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Políticas de protección social adaptativa frente al Cambio Climático. Lecciones desde la Mancomunidad de Tres Cuencas, Ancash
GRADE, 13 July, 2017
Taller de presentación de resultados finales
Selected Publications
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The Evolution of Collective Land Tenure Regimes in Pastoralist Societies: Lessons From Andean Countries
2016 Gerardo Damonte, Manuel Glave, Sandra Rodríguez, Andrea Ramos
