Mining, Criminalization and Developmentalized Sustainability Violence in the Peruvian Highlands: The Case of Conga
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1529 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
Language: English
Page range: 165 - 179
Submitted on: Feb 1, 2025
Accepted on: Mar 29, 2026
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