Topographies of coal mining dissent: Power, politics, and protests in southern Philippines
研究了菲律宾南部反对露天煤矿开采的社会运动，揭示了当地抗议活动的多种形式，包括反对资本主导的采掘、保护原住民权利和追求正义，对理解社会运动如何塑造地方政治有参考价值。
This article examines a social movement on coal dissent, focusing on mobilizations against a proposed opencast coal mining in southern Philippines. The proposal, which seeks to extract coal from the Philippine’s potentially largest coal deposit, was met with local opposition, effectively exposing place-specific topographies of coal dissent. Using concepts on social mobilization and mixed methods approaches, this paper surfaces the various contours of campaigns against extractivism in South Cotabato province, which included: acting against capital-led, nature-divorced regime of extraction, calling for protection of Indigenous People’s rights, calling for justice, and reassessing extractivism vis-à-vis a humanized approach to development. This paper reveals the contested dynamics in local politics and local mobilizations, contributes to our understanding of how social movements are shaping these politics, and highlights the emergence and centrality of justice when reassessing human relationships with nature.