Mapping Resistance: Argentina Mines and Affected Localities
Description:
Point data on 187 mining projects and 463 nearby localities in Argentina, with sociodemographic and collective-action attributes. Derived from the Mapping Resistance interactive geodataset; companion basemap available as utltdr_T8_MT6FNJ_basemap. Source dataset: https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/MT6FNJ. This dataset was developed with support from the UT Libraries Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer (MGCE) Fellowship. The Mapping Resistance project is a digital interactive map and a geodataset of community responses to mining projects in Argentina. Since the 1990s, new “mega-mining” techniques and increasing demand for minerals has led to foreign investment and local resistance throughout Latin America. While many communities in Argentina have organized to stop mines and protect water, mobilization for environmental rights has not been universal. Thus, to display and analyze community responses, we used QGIS to digitize and georeference the geological map of Argentina in the UT Geology Library. We then overlaid this map with geospatial data on affected communities from 4 sources: 1.) geological and mining maps of Argentine provinces from the UT collection; 2.) datasets on mega-mining projects from the Argentine government; 3.) census data on sociodemographic characteristics of nearby communities; and 4.) a dataset of our creation that documents collective action in these places. The resulting geodataset has information on 187 mining projects and 463 localities located in close proximity to them.
