Mega-mining and gender. Accumulation by dispossession in Cerro de San Pedro, San Luis Potosí

Abstract

This article uses a gender perspective to describe and analyze the expropriation strategies used by the San Xavier Mining Company to appropriate land in Cerro de San Pedro, San Luis Potosí, and continue accumulating capital accumulation through dispossession. Through semi-structured interviews and the ethnographic method, the research shows that megamining, in addition to producing changes and territorial encirclement, took advantage of poverty, lack of jobs in the municipality and women’s limited political participation in the ejido assembly to exploit the territory. This generated environmental and social problems in the community.