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Papers by Myrna Santiago
Entre el despojo y la esperanza: Doce ensayos sobre historia y etnografia de la Huasteca, coordinadores Jesus Ruvalcaba Mercado y Sergio Eduardo Carrera Quezada, 2019
RCC Perspectives, issue on New Environmental Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean, eds. Claudia Leal, José Augusto Padua, and John Soluri, 2013
Salur-., €c}iW, o\Z I ow ~ VoM'V.-.131 Histories Myrna Santiago Extracting Histories: Mining, Wor... more Salur-., €c}iW, o\Z I ow ~ VoM'V.-.131 Histories Myrna Santiago Extracting Histories: Mining, Workers, and Environment "Can we live without mining?" asks a colleague ntviewing this text on the last two centuries of mineral extraction in l.atin America. Mining and oil companies, foreign and domestic, are convinced we cannot and have ushered a new rush in petroleum, minerals, and metals-the building blocks of modem soeiely. Ttie "boom" is the latest reincarnation of a colonial era business that intensified with industrialization in the nineteenth century. The continuities in the practice are as striking as the breaks are remarkable. The technologies of extraction have changed dramatically. Yet in keeping with historical trends, the industry has provoked Intense social eonllict due to its im pact on nature, workers' bodies, and local communiiies-the elements that prompted my colleague's question. Let us examine, ilien. the history of mining and oil in contem porary l.atin America to understand his concern and answer his query. Gold and silver, what sixtccnih-ceniury Europeans considered "specie," are the pre cursors of contemporary Latin American mining, for three hundred years, mining fu eled colonialism, nourishing Europe's rise to global prominence and Chinese imperial coffers. Testament to the richness of Latin America's subsoil is the extravagant display of silver and gold in European and Latin American colonial churches that astonish
Efectos y Dinámicas Territoriales del Petróleo en México, eds. Martín Checa Artasu and Regina Hernández Melgar, 2017
Un pasado vivo: Dos siglos de historia ambiental latinoamericana, eds. Claudia Leal, John Soluri, and José Augusto Pádua, 2019
The Metropole, The Blog of the Urban History Association, 2020
Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical Encyclopedia, 2013
A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America, edited by Claudia Leal, John Soluri, and José Augusto Padua , Dec 31, 2018
in A Land Between the Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico, edited by Christopher Boyer, 2012
El siglo XIX en las Huastecas, eds. Antonio Escobar and Luz Carregha, 2002
Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2013
Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazards Across a Globalizing World, eds. Christopher Sellers and Joseph Melling, 2012
Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, 2007
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, 2015
Entre el despojo y la esperanza: Doce ensayos sobre historia y etnografia de la Huasteca, coordinadores Jesus Ruvalcaba Mercado y Sergio Eduardo Carrera Quezada, 2019
RCC Perspectives, issue on New Environmental Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean, eds. Claudia Leal, José Augusto Padua, and John Soluri, 2013
Salur-., €c}iW, o\Z I ow ~ VoM'V.-.131 Histories Myrna Santiago Extracting Histories: Mining, Wor... more Salur-., €c}iW, o\Z I ow ~ VoM'V.-.131 Histories Myrna Santiago Extracting Histories: Mining, Workers, and Environment "Can we live without mining?" asks a colleague ntviewing this text on the last two centuries of mineral extraction in l.atin America. Mining and oil companies, foreign and domestic, are convinced we cannot and have ushered a new rush in petroleum, minerals, and metals-the building blocks of modem soeiely. Ttie "boom" is the latest reincarnation of a colonial era business that intensified with industrialization in the nineteenth century. The continuities in the practice are as striking as the breaks are remarkable. The technologies of extraction have changed dramatically. Yet in keeping with historical trends, the industry has provoked Intense social eonllict due to its im pact on nature, workers' bodies, and local communiiies-the elements that prompted my colleague's question. Let us examine, ilien. the history of mining and oil in contem porary l.atin America to understand his concern and answer his query. Gold and silver, what sixtccnih-ceniury Europeans considered "specie," are the pre cursors of contemporary Latin American mining, for three hundred years, mining fu eled colonialism, nourishing Europe's rise to global prominence and Chinese imperial coffers. Testament to the richness of Latin America's subsoil is the extravagant display of silver and gold in European and Latin American colonial churches that astonish
Efectos y Dinámicas Territoriales del Petróleo en México, eds. Martín Checa Artasu and Regina Hernández Melgar, 2017
Un pasado vivo: Dos siglos de historia ambiental latinoamericana, eds. Claudia Leal, John Soluri, and José Augusto Pádua, 2019
The Metropole, The Blog of the Urban History Association, 2020
Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical Encyclopedia, 2013
A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America, edited by Claudia Leal, John Soluri, and José Augusto Padua , Dec 31, 2018
in A Land Between the Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico, edited by Christopher Boyer, 2012
El siglo XIX en las Huastecas, eds. Antonio Escobar and Luz Carregha, 2002
Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2013
Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazards Across a Globalizing World, eds. Christopher Sellers and Joseph Melling, 2012
Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, 2007
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, 2015
Prepared for: "Oil Imperialism? Energy and Political Power from a Global Perspective," An International Conference Sorbonne University Paris, November 4-5, 2016, 2016
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Presentation at the Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley, 2018