Resource extraction and protest in Peru

Abstract

Moisés Arce's book, The extraction of natural resources and social protest in Peru (PUCP, 2015), is an important contribution to understanding the social protests in Peru today. Its objective is ambitious by offering a general reading of the factors that determine the dynamics of the protests and their impact on national politics. In this sense, the author inserts his work in two arenas of debate: one linked to efforts to identify the conditions in which the protests in Peru between 1980 and 2010 emerge - or more precisely, re-emerge4 (chap. 1-3) , and another relative to the political effects of the same (chap. 4-6).