
Participatory Institutions as a Focal Point for Mobilizing: Prior Consultation and Indigenous Conflict in Colombia's Extractive Industries
This article systematically analyzes how the participatory institution "prior consultation" indirectly gave Colombian indigenous communities a voice in five major hydrocarbon and mining conflicts by creating opportunities to organize around the institution. Mobilized indigenous groups
did not express their concerns about extraction within the prescribed prior consultation meetings. Instead, they refused to be consulted, they challenged the lack of, or their exclusion from, prior consultation, and they preemptively achieved environmental protections. Variation in tactics
is explained by (1) the stage of the planned extraction, (2) whether the state initially determined that a community was affected by the extraction, and (3) the degree of unity among affected communities. The article further highlights the role of Colombia's Constitutional Court in interpreting
and weighing the rights that underlie prior consultation procedures.
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Keywords: ENVIRONMENTAL LICENSING; HYDROCARBONS; INDIGENOUS MOBILIZING; MINING; PARTICIPATORY INSTITUTIONS; PRIOR CONSULTATION
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: July 1, 2020
This article was made available online on January 2, 2020 as a Fast Track article with title: "Participatory Institutions as a Focal Point for Mobilizing: Prior Consultation and Indigenous Conflict in Colombia’s Extractive Industries".
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