Abstract
From the confirmation of the great social transformations caused by the landing of the transnational megamining industry in the Province of Catamarca, this paper presents approaches to the analysis of ‘mining’ conflict from the perspective of their microbiopolitical impacts, this is, in the plane of the bodies, the emotions and the feelings.
Considering that this is a crucial aspect of the social processes that are verified in the new mining extractivism scenes, this work seeks to develop a political ecology of emotions as a key to characterize the mining conflicts, as well as the echo-biopoliticals effects that they produce in the local controlled communities.
Appealing to ethnographic records, are exposed different dimensions of the social changes resulting from mining policies on the bodies and emotions. With the concepts of fever of the gold and socialmineralization, it seeks to provide a critical hermeneutics of these processes oriented to visualize what is understood as their neo-colonials features and effects.