Bibliographic citations
Vela, E., (2021). La red de intercambio para el acceso al agua, alrededor del Proyecto Minero Cerro Verde en la Sub Cuenca del Río Chili en Arequipa, Perú [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/21221
Vela, E., La red de intercambio para el acceso al agua, alrededor del Proyecto Minero Cerro Verde en la Sub Cuenca del Río Chili en Arequipa, Perú []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/21221
@mastersthesis{renati/531989,
title = "La red de intercambio para el acceso al agua, alrededor del Proyecto Minero Cerro Verde en la Sub Cuenca del Río Chili en Arequipa, Perú",
author = "Vela Cáceres, Estelí Celeste",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2021"
}
The master's thesis is framed within the studies on social conflicts in the cases of largescale mining and disputes over access to water, and seeks to explore from a framework of analysis of resource mobilization, political clientelism and network analysis how the contentious dynamics between the mining actor and the urban and agrarian actors are resolved in a desert climate context and a depleted watershed. For this purpose, qualitative research was conducted on a case study recognized internationally as a model of good mining and absence of conflict: the second largest copper project in Peru and the eighth largest internationally, located only 9.5 km from the nearest town of Congata and 30 km from the center of the city of Arequipa, Cerro Verde. What is found is the crucial role acquired by the company in the construction of water infrastructure projects in the Chili sub-basin, establishing exchange relationships for the demobilization against the mining project, as well as establishing exchange relationships with local water institutions such as the National Water Authority and the Empresa Prestadora de Servicios de Saneamiento SEDAPAR to expand its water volume level in exchange for the construction of water infrastructure. These links allow the configuration of an exchange network that allows it to access the water required for the two expansion projects and to meet the postponed water access demands of urban and agrarian actors through investment in water infrastructure. What this research reveals are the factors that influence the establishment of a network of exchange relationships that sustains the absence of conflict, as well as the production of new inequalities in access to water and power in the Chili sub-basin, discussing the frameworks for the analysis of social conflicts over water.
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