{"id":258,"date":"2025-10-02T03:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/damonte-valencia-gerardo\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:39:53","slug":"damonte-valencia-gerardo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/damonte-valencia-gerardo\/","title":{"rendered":"Damonte Valencia Gerardo"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGerardo Damonte Valencia<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n    <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Damonte Valencia Gerardo\">\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_pinit\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n    <!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/damonte-valencia-gerardo\/660322-1-eng-gb\/damonte-valencia-gerardo_author.png\" alt=\"Damonte Valencia Gerardo\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrganisation:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tGroup for the Analysis of Development (GRADE)<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWebsite:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grade.org.pe\/english\/inv_gdamonte.php \">GRADE profile<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Gerardo Damonte Valencia is Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) in Peru and teaches at the Department of Political Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica del Per\u00fa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Damonte obtained a MA and a PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University. He carries out research in the field of natural resources and leads projects in three interrelated fields: extractive industries and rural society, local knowledge and climate change, and territories and social movements. The geographical focus of his work is Latin America, and in particular the Central Andes region. Among his publications are \u2018The Constitution of Political Actors: Peasant Communities and Mobilization in Bolivian and Peruvian Andes\u2019 (2008) and various articles on the social impacts of extractive development in the Andes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/articles\/formalizing-the-unknown\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/articles\/formalizing-the-unknown\/660250-3-eng-gb\/formalizing-the-unknown_column.jpg\" alt=\"Formalizing the unknown\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/articles\/formalizing-the-unknown\/\">Formalizing the unknown<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/damonte-valencia-gerardo\/\">Gerardo Damonte Valencia<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNovember 05, 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tThe Peruvian region Madre de Dios is the scene of an enduring dispute between small-scale miners and the authorities over the use of land. 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