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This chapter develops the analysis of the Bambas case, with a focus on the bilateral relationships between different community organizations and Xstrata. While communities are generally engaged in demands for services, this chapter shows that the power dynamics of these relations differed widely. More specifically, they were characterized by strategic collaboration, as well as clientelistic dynamics. While the first section analyzes corporate governance strategies, the following three sections analyze the interactions between Xstrata and different peasant communities and the ways they differ in their capacity to put pressure on the corporation. Overall, the chapter shows that control over land is a crucial asset to establish a bargaining leverage in relation to the corporation. However, it also shows how strategic collaborations could make it difficult to develop broader political coalitions.
Everyone is engaging in their own struggle, there is no unity. The organizations have become fragmented. The federation has become fragmented. The communities that receive support [from Xstrata] do not want to help communities that do not receive support. And the communities that are not affected are not interested in the problems of the ones that are affected.
—Valentin Roquerata, former president of the provincial Peasant Federation in Cotabambas
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Gustafsson, MT. (2018). The Fragmented Struggle for Services. In: Private Politics and Peasant Mobilization. Development, Justice and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60756-6_6
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