Does mining bring wealth to Chile, or harm?

Alasdair speaks to Professor Ángela Vergara about the history, economics, and environmental impact of mining in Chile.

Ángela Vergara is a member of the history faculty at California State University. Her books include Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile (upittpress.org/books/9780822946793)(Pittsburgh, 2021), and Copper Workers, International Business and Domestic Politics in Cold War Chile (psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03334-1.html)(Penn State, 2008).

Podcast Editing by Vasko Kostovski.

Further reading:
• 'The ‘Alterlives’ of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert (journals.openedition.org/poldev)', International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement.
• Stay tuned for our upcoming collection on www.landclimate.org, The future unrefined, coming next week - including content about Chilean mining!
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