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Del, M., (2014). The influence of natural resource extraction projects on Amazonian indigenous populations: The case of the Camisea Gas Project and Machiguenga women [Trabajo de investigación, University College London]. http://renati.sunedu.gob.pe/handle/sunedu/952231
Del, M., The influence of natural resource extraction projects on Amazonian indigenous populations: The case of the Camisea Gas Project and Machiguenga women [Trabajo de investigación]. GB: University College London; 2014. http://renati.sunedu.gob.pe/handle/sunedu/952231
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title = "The influence of natural resource extraction projects on Amazonian indigenous populations: The case of the Camisea Gas Project and Machiguenga women",
author = "Del Castillo Tafur, Mary Cynthia",
publisher = "University College London",
year = "2014"
}
More than 70% of the Peruvian Amazon is covered by hydrocarbon plots for exploration and exploitation. These plots overlap indigenous communities, protected natural areas, and territories reserved for isolated indigenous populations. The Camisea Gas Project (CGP), which is the largest gas exploration and exploitation project in Latin America, has been operating since 2000 in the southeast Amazon of Cusco in Peru, in territory historically occupied by Machiguenga indigenous populations. My research project explores the impacts external gas companies have on the Machiguenga way of life, with a particular focus on women. I conducted research in the Machiguenga native community of Cashiriari, located in the lower Urubamba basin in the Amazon of Cusco. Cashiriari village is directly impacted by the CGP as one of the Camisea gas plots overlaps its territory. Combining qualitative and quantitative research tools, I was able to analyse the processes of social and economic transformation Machiguenga society undergo due to natural resource extraction projects in the area. My results show that the gas project has generated a variety of re-adjustments in Machiguenga households. The subsistence economy has become insufficient, and making money has become a need; the traditional division of labour has shifted because of women and men’s (migrant) wage labour, increasing women’s household burden; diversification of livelihood activities has become a feature of Machiguenga households, in particular among women; there is a generalized perception among the community of material development but of decline in natural resources and cultural traditions.
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